SRE Strangle Strategy
SRE (Sempra), in the Utilities sector, (Diversified Utilities industry), listed on NYSE.
Sempra operates as an energy-services holding company in the United States and internationally. The company's San Diego Gas & Electric Company segment provides electric services; and supplies natural gas. It offers electric services to approximately 3.6 million population and natural gas services to approximately 3.3 million population that covers 4,100 square miles. Its Southern California Gas Company segment owns and operates a natural gas distribution, transmission, and storage system that supplies natural gas to a population of approximately 22 million covering an area of 24,000 square miles. The company's Sempra Texas Utilities segment engages in the regulated transmission and distribution of electricity serving 3.8 million homes and businesses, and operation of 140,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Its transmission system includes 18,249 circuit miles of transmission lines, a total of 1,174 transmission and distribution substations, and interconnection to 130 third-party generation facilities totaling 45,403 megawatts.
SRE (Sempra) trades in the Utilities sector, specifically Diversified Utilities, with a market capitalization of approximately $59.93B, a trailing P/E of 28.95, a beta of 0.60 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 73.06-101.04, average daily share volume of 3.5M, a public-listing history dating back to 1998, approximately 17K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how SRE stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.60 indicates SRE has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. SRE pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a strangle on SRE?
A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money.
Current SRE snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $90.48, ATM IV 23.10%, IV rank 47.71%, expected move 6.62%. The strangle on SRE 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 strangle structure on SRE specifically: SRE IV at 23.10% 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 6.62% (roughly $5.99 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 SRE expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on SRE should anchor to the underlying notional of $90.48 per share and to the trader's directional view on SRE stock.
SRE strangle setup
The SRE strangle below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With SRE near $90.48, the first option leg uses a $95.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed SRE 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 SRE shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $95.00 | N/A |
| Buy 1 | Put | $85.96 | N/A |
SRE strangle 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
Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit.
SRE strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on SRE. 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 strangle on SRE
Strangles on SRE are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the SRE chain.
SRE thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for SRE extends from approximately $84.49 on the downside to $96.47 on the upside. A SRE long strangle is the OTM cousin of the straddle: lower up-front cost but the underlying has to travel further past either OTM strike before the position turns profitable at expiration. Current SRE IV rank near 47.71% is mid-range against its 1-year distribution, so the IV signal is neutral; the strangle thesis on SRE should anchor more to the directional view and the expected-move geometry. As a Utilities name, SRE options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to SRE-specific events.
SRE strangle positions are structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM); 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. SRE positions also carry Utilities sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move SRE alongside the broader basket even when SRE-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current SRE chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on SRE?
- A strangle on SRE is the strangle strategy applied to SRE (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral / high-volatility (long premium, OTM): A long strangle buys an OTM call and an OTM put at offset strikes, cheaper than a straddle but requiring a larger underlying move to profit since both wings start out-of-the-money. With SRE stock trading near $90.48, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed SRE chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are SRE strangle max profit and max loss calculated?
- Upside max profit is unbounded; downside max profit is bounded at the put strike minus the combined debit (reached at zero). Max loss equals the combined debit times 100 (reached anywhere between the two OTM strikes). Two breakevens at call-strike plus debit and put-strike minus debit. For the SRE strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 23.10%), 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 SRE strangle?
- The breakeven for the SRE strangle 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 SRE market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 6.62%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on SRE?
- Strangles on SRE are the cheaper cousin of the straddle - traders use them when they want a large directional move but are willing to give up the inner-strike sensitivity in exchange for a lower up-front debit on the SRE chain.
- How does current SRE implied volatility affect this strangle?
- SRE ATM IV is at 23.10% with IV rank near 47.71%, 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.