OII Strangle Strategy
OII (Oceaneering International, Inc.), in the Energy sector, (Oil & Gas Equipment & Services industry), listed on NYSE.
Oceaneering International, Inc. provides engineered services, products, and robotic solutions to the offshore energy, defense, aerospace, manufacturing, and entertainment industries worldwide. The company's Subsea Robotics segment provides remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for drill support and vessel-based services, including subsea hardware installation, construction, pipeline inspection, survey and facilities inspection, maintenance, and repair. This segment also offers ROV tooling, and survey services, such as hydrographic survey and positioning services, as well as autonomous underwater vehicles for geoscience. As of December 31, 2021, this segment owned 250 work-class ROVs. Its Manufactured Products segment provides distribution and connection systems, including production control umbilicals and field development hardware, pipeline connection, and repair systems to the energy industry; and autonomous mobile robots and automated guided vehicle technology and entertainment systems to various industries. The company's Offshore Projects Group segment offers subsea installation and intervention, including riserless light well intervention services and inspection, and maintenance and repair services; installation and workover control systems, and ROV workover control systems; project management and engineering; and drill pipe riser services and systems, and wellhead load relief solutions.
OII (Oceaneering International, Inc.) trades in the Energy sector, specifically Oil & Gas Equipment & Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $3.88B, a trailing P/E of 11.40, a beta of 1.17 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 18.45-40.12, average daily share volume of 1.3M, a public-listing history dating back to 1975, approximately 10K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how OII stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 1.17 places OII roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 11.40 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price.
What is a strangle on OII?
A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money.
Current OII snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $37.78, ATM IV 50.40%, IV rank 48.11%, expected move 14.45%. The strangle on OII below is built from the same end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 34-day expiry.
Why this strangle structure on OII specifically: OII IV at 50.40% is mid-range versus its 1-year history, so strategy selection should anchor more to the directional thesis than to the IV regime, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 14.45% (roughly $5.46 on the underlying). The 34-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated OII expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on OII should anchor to the underlying notional of $37.78 per share and to the trader's directional view on OII stock.
OII strangle setup
The OII strangle below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With OII near $37.78, the first option leg uses a $39.67 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed OII chain at a 34-day expiry; the cross-strike IV skew is reflected directly in the per-leg values rather than approximated. Quantity sizing assumes one contract per option leg (or 100 OII shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $39.67 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $35.89 | N/A |
OII strangle risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- N/A
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Breakeven(s)
- None on modeled curve
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- N/A
Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit.
OII strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on OII. Each row is one sampled price point from the computed payoff curve; the full curve uses 200 price points internally before being summarized into 10 rows here.
When traders use strangle on OII
Strangles on OII are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the OII chain.
OII thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for OII extends from approximately $32.32 on the downside to $43.24 on the upside. A OII long strangle is the OTM cousin of the straddle: lower up-front cost but the underlying has to travel further past either OTM strike before the position turns profitable at expiration. Current OII IV rank near 48.11% is mid-range against its 1-year distribution, so the IV signal is neutral; the strangle thesis on OII should anchor more to the directional view and the expected-move geometry. As a Energy name, OII options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to OII-specific events.
OII strangle positions are structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM); the modeled P&L assumes European-style exercise at expiration and ignores early assignment, transaction costs, dividends paid before expiry on the stock leg (when present), and the bid-ask spread on the listed chain. OII positions also carry Energy sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move OII alongside the broader basket even when OII-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current OII chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on OII?
- A strangle on OII is the strangle strategy applied to OII (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM): A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money. With OII stock trading near $37.78, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed OII chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are OII strangle max profit and max loss calculated?
- Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit. For the OII strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 50.40%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is unbounded per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a OII strangle?
- The breakeven for the OII strangle priced on this page is no defined breakeven on the modeled curve at expiration, derived from end-of-day chain premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The current OII market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 14.45%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on OII?
- Strangles on OII are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the OII chain.
- How does current OII implied volatility affect this strangle?
- OII ATM IV is at 50.40% with IV rank near 48.11%, which is mid-range against its 1-year history. Strategy selection depends more on directional thesis and expected move than on a strong IV signal.