PFGC Collar Strategy

PFGC (Performance Food Group Co), in the Consumer Defensive sector, (Food Distribution industry), listed on NYSE.

Performance Food Group Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and distribution of food and food-related products in North America. It operates through three segments: Foodservice, Convenience, and Specialty. The company offers beef, pork, poultry, and seafood; frozen food and refrigerated products; dry groceries comprising cleaning and kitchen supplies and disposables; candy, snacks, and beverages; and fresh products, groceries, dairy, bread, beverages, general merchandise, and health and beauty care products, as well as cigarettes and other nicotine products. It also operates distribution centers. In addition, the company provides marketing programs and technology solutions to customer locations, as well as value-added services in the areas of product selection and procurement, menu development, and operational strategy. It serves individual restaurants, national and regional chain restaurants, vending distributors, theaters, retailers, and national, regional, and independent convenience stores.

PFGC (Performance Food Group Co) trades in the Consumer Defensive sector, specifically Food Distribution, with a market capitalization of approximately $17.35B, a trailing P/E of 52.48, a beta of 0.93 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 80.82-110.66, average daily share volume of 1.7M, a public-listing history dating back to 2015, approximately 43K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how PFGC stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.

A beta of 0.93 places PFGC roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 52.48 is on the rich side, which tends to correlate with higher earnings-window IV expansion as the market debates whether forward growth supports the multiple.

What is a collar on PFGC?

A collar pairs long stock with a protective out-of-the-money put financed by a short out-of-the-money call, capping both tails of the position around the current spot.

Current PFGC snapshot

As of June 29, 2026, spot at $111.73, ATM IV 27.20%, IV rank 18.64%, expected move 7.80%. The collar on PFGC 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 53-day expiry.

Why this collar structure on PFGC specifically: IV regime affects collar pricing on both sides; compressed PFGC IV at 27.20% typically pushes the short call premium to roughly offset the long put cost, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 7.80% (roughly $8.71 on the underlying). The 53-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated PFGC expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on PFGC should anchor to the underlying notional of $111.73 per share and to the trader's directional view on PFGC stock.

PFGC collar setup

The PFGC collar below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With PFGC near $111.73, the first option leg uses a $115.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed PFGC chain at a 53-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 PFGC shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).

ActionTypeStrike / BasisPremium (est)
Buy 100 sharesStock$111.73long
Sell 1Call$115.00$3.60
Buy 1Put$105.00$2.58

PFGC collar risk and reward

Net Premium / Debit
-$11,070.50
Max Profit (per contract)
$429.50
Max Loss (per contract)
-$570.50
Breakeven(s)
$110.71
Risk / Reward Ratio
0.753

Max profit roughly equals short-call strike minus cost basis plus net premium; max loss roughly equals cost basis minus long-put strike minus net premium. Breakeven shifts by the net premium.

PFGC collar payoff curve

Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the collar on PFGC. 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.

PFGC collar profit and loss curve at expiration with breakevens and current spot markedPFGC collar payoff at expiration-$400-$200$0$200$400$50$100$150$200Underlying Price ($)P&L at Expiration ($)BE $110.70Spot $111.73
P&L at expiration across the modeled underlying-price range. Green shading marks profitable regions, red shading marks loss regions. Dotted purple verticals mark breakevens; the solid dark vertical marks current spot.
Underlying Price% From SpotP&L at Expiration
$0.01-100.0%-$570.50
$24.71-77.9%-$570.50
$49.42-55.8%-$570.50
$74.12-33.7%-$570.50
$98.82-11.6%-$570.50
$123.53+10.6%+$429.50
$148.23+32.7%+$429.50
$172.93+54.8%+$429.50
$197.63+76.9%+$429.50
$222.34+99.0%+$429.50

When traders use collar on PFGC

Collars on PFGC hedge an existing long PFGC stock position; the long put sets a floor while the short call finances it, often run as a near-zero-cost hedge during expected volatility windows.

PFGC thesis for this collar

The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for PFGC extends from approximately $103.02 on the downside to $120.44 on the upside. A PFGC collar hedges an existing long PFGC position with a protective put while financing the put cost via a short call; when the premiums roughly offset, the collar acts as a near-zero-cost insurance band around the current spot. Current PFGC IV rank near 18.64% 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 PFGC at 27.20%. As a Consumer Defensive name, PFGC options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to PFGC-specific events.

PFGC collar positions are structurally neutral (protective); 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. PFGC positions also carry Consumer Defensive sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move PFGC alongside the broader basket even when PFGC-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current PFGC chain quotes before placing a trade.

Frequently asked questions

What is a collar on PFGC?
A collar on PFGC is the collar strategy applied to PFGC (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral (protective): A collar pairs long stock with a protective out-of-the-money put financed by a short out-of-the-money call, capping both tails of the position around the current spot. With PFGC stock trading near $111.73, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed PFGC chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
How are PFGC collar max profit and max loss calculated?
Max profit roughly equals short-call strike minus cost basis plus net premium; max loss roughly equals cost basis minus long-put strike minus net premium. Breakeven shifts by the net premium. For the PFGC collar priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 27.20%), the computed maximum profit is $429.50 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$570.50 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
What is the breakeven for a PFGC collar?
The breakeven for the PFGC collar priced on this page is roughly $110.71 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 PFGC market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 7.80%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
When should you consider a collar on PFGC?
Collars on PFGC hedge an existing long PFGC stock position; the long put sets a floor while the short call finances it, often run as a near-zero-cost hedge during expected volatility windows.
How does current PFGC implied volatility affect this collar?
PFGC ATM IV is at 27.20% with IV rank near 18.64%, 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.

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