OTTR Bear Put Spread Strategy
OTTR (Otter Tail Corporation), in the Utilities sector, (Diversified Utilities industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Otter Tail Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in electric utility, manufacturing, and plastic pipe businesses in the United States. The company's Electric segment produces, transmits, distributes, and sells electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota; and operates as a participant in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. markets. This segment generates electricity through coal, wind and hydro, and natural gas. It serves approximately 133,000 residential, industrial, and other commercial customers. Its Manufacturing segment engages in the contract machining, metal parts stamping, fabrication and painting, and production of plastic thermoformed horticultural containers, life science and industrial packaging, and material handling components, and extruded raw material stock for recreational vehicle, agricultural, construction, lawn and garden, and industrial and energy equipment industries. It also manufactures clamshell packing, blister packs, returnable pallets, and handling trays for shipping and storing odd-shaped or difficult-to-handle parts for customers in the horticulture, medical and life sciences, industrial, recreation, and electronics industries.
OTTR (Otter Tail Corporation) trades in the Utilities sector, specifically Diversified Utilities, with a market capitalization of approximately $3.75B, a trailing P/E of 13.35, a beta of 0.47 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 74.15-92.24, average daily share volume of 292K, a public-listing history dating back to 1990, approximately 2K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how OTTR stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.47 indicates OTTR has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. OTTR pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a bear put spread on OTTR?
A bear put spread buys an at-the-money put and sells an out-of-the-money put at a lower strike for defined risk and defined reward bounded by the strike width.
Current OTTR snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $88.14, ATM IV 326.10%, IV rank 65.59%, expected move 5.60%. The bear put spread on OTTR 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 bear put spread structure on OTTR specifically: OTTR IV at 326.10% 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 5.60% (roughly $4.93 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 OTTR expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on OTTR should anchor to the underlying notional of $88.14 per share and to the trader's directional view on OTTR stock.
OTTR bear put spread setup
The OTTR bear put spread below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With OTTR near $88.14, the first option leg uses a $88.14 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed OTTR 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 OTTR shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $88.14 | N/A |
| Sell 1 | Put | $83.73 | N/A |
OTTR bear put spread 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 strike width minus net debit times 100; max loss equals net debit times 100. Breakeven is long-put strike minus net debit.
OTTR bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on OTTR. 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 bear put spread on OTTR
Bear put spreads on OTTR reduce the cost of a bearish OTTR stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
OTTR thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for OTTR extends from approximately $83.21 on the downside to $93.07 on the upside. A OTTR bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on OTTR, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. Current OTTR IV rank near 65.59% is mid-range against its 1-year distribution, so the IV signal is neutral; the bear put spread thesis on OTTR should anchor more to the directional view and the expected-move geometry. As a Utilities name, OTTR options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to OTTR-specific events.
OTTR bear put spread positions are structurally moderately 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. OTTR positions also carry Utilities sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move OTTR alongside the broader basket even when OTTR-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on OTTR 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 OTTR chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on OTTR?
- A bear put spread on OTTR is the bear put spread strategy applied to OTTR (stock). The strategy is structurally moderately bearish: A bear put spread buys an at-the-money put and sells an out-of-the-money put at a lower strike for defined risk and defined reward bounded by the strike width. With OTTR stock trading near $88.14, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed OTTR chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are OTTR bear put spread max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals strike width minus net debit times 100; max loss equals net debit times 100. Breakeven is long-put strike minus net debit. For the OTTR bear put spread priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 326.10%), 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 OTTR bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the OTTR bear put spread 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 OTTR market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 5.60%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a bear put spread on OTTR?
- Bear put spreads on OTTR reduce the cost of a bearish OTTR stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
- How does current OTTR implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- OTTR ATM IV is at 326.10% with IV rank near 65.59%, 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.