ORI Long Put Strategy
ORI (Old Republic International Corporation), in the Financial Services sector, (Insurance - Diversified industry), listed on NYSE.
Old Republic International Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance underwriting and related services business primarily in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: General Insurance, Title Insurance, and the Republic Financial Indemnity Group Run-off Business. The General Insurance segment offers automobile extended warranty, aviation, commercial automobile, commercial multi-peril, commercial property, general liability, home warranty, inland marine, travel accident, and workers' compensation insurance products; and financial indemnity products for specialty coverages, including errors and omissions, fidelity, guaranteed asset protection, and surety. This segment provides its insurance products to businesses, government, and other institutions in transportation, commercial construction, healthcare, education, retail and wholesale trade, forest products, energy, general manufacturing, and financial services industries. The Title Insurance segment offers lenders' and owners' title insurance policies to real estate purchasers and investors based upon searches of the public records. This segment also provides escrow closing and construction disbursement services; and real estate information products, national default management services, and various other services pertaining to real estate transfers and loan transactions.
ORI (Old Republic International Corporation) trades in the Financial Services sector, specifically Insurance - Diversified, with a market capitalization of approximately $9.45B, a trailing P/E of 9.26, a beta of 0.67 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 35.6-46.76, average daily share volume of 1.8M, a public-listing history dating back to 1980, approximately 9K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how ORI stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.67 indicates ORI has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. The trailing P/E of 9.26 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. ORI pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a long put on ORI?
A long put buys downside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes below the strike minus premium at expiration.
Current ORI snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $39.31, ATM IV 9.20%, IV rank 1.78%, expected move 2.64%. The long put on ORI 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 long put structure on ORI specifically: ORI IV at 9.20% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a ORI long put, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 2.64% (roughly $1.04 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 ORI expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on ORI should anchor to the underlying notional of $39.31 per share and to the trader's directional view on ORI stock.
ORI long put setup
The ORI long put below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With ORI near $39.31, the first option leg uses a $39.31 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed ORI 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 ORI shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $39.31 | N/A |
ORI long put 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
Max profit equals the strike minus premium times 100 (reached at zero); max loss equals the premium times 100. Breakeven is strike minus premium.
ORI long put payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the long put on ORI. 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 long put on ORI
Long puts on ORI hedge an existing long ORI stock position or express a bearish view with defined risk; position sizing typically scales the put notional to the underlying ORI exposure being hedged.
ORI thesis for this long put
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for ORI extends from approximately $38.27 on the downside to $40.35 on the upside. A ORI long put expresses a directional view that the underlying closes below the strike minus premium at expiration, frequently sized to hedge an existing long ORI position with one put per 100 shares held. Current ORI IV rank near 1.78% sits in the lower third of its 1-year distribution, where IV often re-expands toward the mean; this favors premium-buying structures and disadvantages premium-selling structures on ORI at 9.20%. As a Financial Services name, ORI options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to ORI-specific events.
ORI long put positions are structurally bearish; 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. ORI positions also carry Financial Services sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move ORI alongside the broader basket even when ORI-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a long put on ORI are particularly exposed to IV-crush risk through scheduled events (earnings, FDA decisions, central-bank meetings) where IV typically contracts post-event regardless of the directional outcome. Always rebuild the position from current ORI chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a long put on ORI?
- A long put on ORI is the long put strategy applied to ORI (stock). The strategy is structurally bearish: A long put buys downside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes below the strike minus premium at expiration. With ORI stock trading near $39.31, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed ORI chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are ORI long put max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals the strike minus premium times 100 (reached at zero); max loss equals the premium times 100. Breakeven is strike minus premium. For the ORI long put priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 9.20%), 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 ORI long put?
- The breakeven for the ORI long put 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 ORI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 2.64%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a long put on ORI?
- Long puts on ORI hedge an existing long ORI stock position or express a bearish view with defined risk; position sizing typically scales the put notional to the underlying ORI exposure being hedged.
- How does current ORI implied volatility affect this long put?
- ORI ATM IV is at 9.20% with IV rank near 1.78%, which is on the low end of its 1-year range. Premium-buying structures (long call, long put, debit spreads) are relatively cheap in this regime; premium-selling structures collect less credit per unit risk.