PHR Bear Put Spread Strategy
PHR (Phreesia, Inc.), in the Healthcare sector, (Medical - Healthcare Information Services industry), listed on NYSE.
Phreesia, Inc. offers a comprehensive, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) and payment platform specifically designed for the healthcare industry in the United States and Canada. Its flagship Phreesia Platform streamlines the patient intake process and facilitates integrated patient payment processing. The platform is accessible via multiple modalities, including Phreesia Mobile (a patient-facing mobile application), Phreesia Dashboard (a web-based portal for healthcare clients), self-service tablets known as PhreesiaPads, and on-site Arrivals Kiosks. The Phreesia Platform integrates a suite of specialized modules: An automated patient self-registration system. A revenue cycle management solution providing insurance verification, point-of-sale payment applications, and cost estimation tools. Access solutions for online appointment scheduling, reminders, and referral tracking.
PHR (Phreesia, Inc.) trades in the Healthcare sector, specifically Medical - Healthcare Information Services, with a market capitalization of approximately $622.4M, a trailing P/E of 66.83, a beta of 0.88 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 7.77-32.76, average daily share volume of 1.9M, a public-listing history dating back to 2019, approximately 2K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how PHR stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.88 places PHR roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 66.83 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 bear put spread on PHR?
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 PHR snapshot
As of June 30, 2026, spot at $10.36, ATM IV 33.10%, IV rank 6.18%, expected move 9.49%. The bear put spread on PHR 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 17-day expiry.
Why this bear put spread structure on PHR specifically: PHR IV at 33.10% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a PHR bear put spread, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 9.49% (roughly $0.98 on the underlying). The 17-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated PHR expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on PHR should anchor to the underlying notional of $10.36 per share and to the trader's directional view on PHR stock.
PHR bear put spread setup
The PHR 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 PHR near $10.36, the first option leg uses a $10.36 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed PHR chain at a 17-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 PHR shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $10.36 | N/A |
| Sell 1 | Put | $9.84 | N/A |
PHR 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.
PHR bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on PHR. 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 PHR
Bear put spreads on PHR reduce the cost of a bearish PHR stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
PHR thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for PHR extends from approximately $9.38 on the downside to $11.34 on the upside. A PHR bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on PHR, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. Current PHR IV rank near 6.18% 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 PHR at 33.10%. As a Healthcare name, PHR options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to PHR-specific events.
PHR 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. PHR positions also carry Healthcare sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move PHR alongside the broader basket even when PHR-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on PHR 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 PHR chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on PHR?
- A bear put spread on PHR is the bear put spread strategy applied to PHR (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 PHR stock trading near $10.36, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed PHR chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are PHR 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 PHR bear put spread priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 33.10%), 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 PHR bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the PHR 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 PHR market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 9.49%; 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 PHR?
- Bear put spreads on PHR reduce the cost of a bearish PHR 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 PHR implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- PHR ATM IV is at 33.10% with IV rank near 6.18%, 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.