PUSA Long Call Strategy
PUSA (Aureus Greenway Holdings, Inc.), in the Consumer Cyclical sector, (Leisure industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Aureus Greenway Holdings, Inc. primarily manages and holds ownership of public golf country clubs, specifically the Kissimmee Bay Country Club and Remington Golf Club. Its operations are structured across several key divisions: Golf Recreation, Retail Golf Products, and Equipment and Facilities Rental; Membership Dues; Food and Beverage Services; and Ancillary Services and Amenities. The Golf Recreation, Retail Golf Products, and Equipment and Facilities Rental segment generates income from fees for eighteen-hole rounds, offers practice amenities like driving ranges, sells golf apparel and gear, and facilitates the rental of golf products and carts. The Membership Dues division pertains to the subscription charges customers pay to access the club's facilities and services, whether for a specified duration or on a daily basis at the point of purchase. The Food and Beverage Services section provides gastronomic offerings, including event catering. Lastly, the Ancillary Services and Amenities segment delivers various recreational pursuits, centered around its on-site clubhouse equipped with a kitchen, bar, and dining facilities.
PUSA (Aureus Greenway Holdings, Inc.) trades in the Consumer Cyclical sector, specifically Leisure, with a market capitalization of approximately $76.5M, a beta of 5.13 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 1.8-8.25, average daily share volume of 1.3M, a public-listing history dating back to 2025, approximately 47 full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how PUSA stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 5.13 indicates PUSA has historically moved more than the broader market, amplifying both the directional payoff and the realized volatility relative to an index-equivalent position.
What is a long call on PUSA?
A long call buys upside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration.
PUSA snapshot
As of August 14, 2026, spot at $3.73, ATM IV 25.70%, expected move 7.37%. The long call on PUSA below is built from the end-of-day chain, with strikes snapped to listed contracts and premiums pulled from the bid/ask midpoint at a 35-day expiry.
Why this long call structure on PUSA specifically: IV rank is unavailable in the current snapshot, so regime-based timing for PUSA is inferred from ATM IV at 25.70% alone, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 7.37% (roughly $0.27 on the underlying). The 35-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated PUSA expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on PUSA should anchor to the underlying notional of $3.73 per share and to the trader's directional view on PUSA stock.
PUSA long call setup
The PUSA long call below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With PUSA at $3.73 on that close, the first option leg uses a $3.73 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed PUSA chain at a 35-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 PUSA shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $3.73 | N/A |
PUSA long call 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 is unbounded; max loss equals the premium paid times 100. Breakeven is strike plus premium.
PUSA long call payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the long call on PUSA. 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 call on PUSA
Long calls on PUSA express a bullish thesis with defined risk; traders use them ahead of PUSA catalysts (earnings, product launches, macro events) when the expected upside justifies the premium and theta decay.
PUSA thesis for this long call
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for PUSA extends from approximately $3.46 on the downside to $4.00 on the upside. A PUSA long call expresses a directional view that the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration, ideally with implied volatility holding or expanding to preserve extrinsic value through the hold period. As a Consumer Cyclical name, PUSA options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to PUSA-specific events.
PUSA long call positions are structurally bullish; 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. PUSA positions also carry Consumer Cyclical sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move PUSA alongside the broader basket even when PUSA-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a long call on PUSA 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 PUSA chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a long call on PUSA?
- A long call on PUSA is the long call strategy applied to PUSA (stock). The strategy is structurally bullish: A long call buys upside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes above the strike plus premium at expiration. With PUSA stock at $3.73 on the most recent close, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed PUSA chain strike and the premiums come straight from that session's bid/ask midpoint.
- How are PUSA long call max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit is unbounded; max loss equals the premium paid times 100. Breakeven is strike plus premium. For the PUSA long call priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 25.70%), 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 PUSA long call?
- The breakeven for the PUSA long call priced on this page is no defined breakeven on the modeled curve at expiration, derived from the end-of-day chain's premiums. Breakeven is the underlying price at which the strategy's P&L crosses zero ignoring transaction costs and assignment risk. The PUSA market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move in the same options snapshot is approximately 7.37%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a long call on PUSA?
- Long calls on PUSA express a bullish thesis with defined risk; traders use them ahead of PUSA catalysts (earnings, product launches, macro events) when the expected upside justifies the premium and theta decay.
- How does current PUSA implied volatility affect this long call?
- Current PUSA ATM IV is 25.70%; IV rank context is unavailable in the current snapshot.