SUI Cash-Secured Put Strategy
SUI (Sun Communities, Inc.), in the Real Estate sector, (REIT - Residential industry), listed on NYSE.
Sun Communities, Inc. is a REIT that, as of March 31, 2022, owned, operated, or had an interest in a portfolio of 603 developed MH, RV and marina properties comprising nearly 159,300 developed sites and over 45,700 wet slips and dry storage spaces in 39 states, Canada, Puerto Rico and the UK.
SUI (Sun Communities, Inc.) trades in the Real Estate sector, specifically REIT - Residential, with a market capitalization of approximately $15.32B, a trailing P/E of 10.87, a beta of 0.82 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 115.53-137.85, average daily share volume of 836K, a public-listing history dating back to 1993, approximately 6K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how SUI stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.82 places SUI roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. The trailing P/E of 10.87 is on the value side, where IV often compresses outside event windows because forward growth expectations are already discounted into the share price. SUI pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a cash-secured put on SUI?
A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike.
Current SUI snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $120.56, ATM IV 23.90%, IV rank 3.52%, expected move 6.85%. The cash-secured put on SUI 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 cash-secured put structure on SUI specifically: SUI IV at 23.90% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which means a premium-selling SUI cash-secured put collects less credit per unit of strike-width risk, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 6.85% (roughly $8.26 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 SUI expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on SUI should anchor to the underlying notional of $120.56 per share and to the trader's directional view on SUI stock.
SUI cash-secured put setup
The SUI cash-secured put below is built from the end-of-day chain, with each option leg priced at the bid/ask midpoint of its listed strike. With SUI near $120.56, 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 SUI 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 SUI shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell 1 | Put | $115.00 | $1.05 |
SUI cash-secured put risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- +$105.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $105.00
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$11,394.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $113.96
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 0.009
Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium.
SUI cash-secured put payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the cash-secured put on SUI. 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.
| Underlying Price | % From Spot | P&L at Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | -100.0% | -$11,394.00 |
| $26.67 | -77.9% | -$8,728.46 |
| $53.32 | -55.8% | -$6,062.92 |
| $79.98 | -33.7% | -$3,397.39 |
| $106.63 | -11.6% | -$731.85 |
| $133.29 | +10.6% | +$105.00 |
| $159.94 | +32.7% | +$105.00 |
| $186.60 | +54.8% | +$105.00 |
| $213.25 | +76.9% | +$105.00 |
| $239.91 | +99.0% | +$105.00 |
When traders use cash-secured put on SUI
Cash-secured puts on SUI earn premium while a trader waits to acquire SUI stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning SUI.
SUI thesis for this cash-secured put
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for SUI extends from approximately $112.30 on the downside to $128.82 on the upside. A SUI cash-secured put lets a trader earn premium while waiting to acquire SUI at the strike price; the strategy is most attractive when the trader is comfortable holding the underlying at that level and IV is rich enough to compensate for the assignment risk. Current SUI IV rank near 3.52% 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 SUI at 23.90%. As a Real Estate name, SUI options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to SUI-specific events.
SUI cash-secured put positions are structurally neutral to slightly 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. SUI positions also carry Real Estate sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move SUI alongside the broader basket even when SUI-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Short-premium structures like a cash-secured put on SUI carry tail risk when realized volatility exceeds the implied move; review historical SUI earnings reactions and macro stress periods before sizing. Always rebuild the position from current SUI chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a cash-secured put on SUI?
- A cash-secured put on SUI is the cash-secured put strategy applied to SUI (stock). The strategy is structurally neutral to slightly bullish: A cash-secured put sells an out-of-the-money put while holding cash equal to the strike-times-100 obligation, keeping the premium when the underlying stays above the strike. With SUI stock trading near $120.56, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed SUI chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are SUI cash-secured put max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals premium times 100; max loss equals strike minus premium times 100 (at zero, assuming assignment). Breakeven is strike minus premium. For the SUI cash-secured put priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 23.90%), the computed maximum profit is $105.00 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$11,394.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a SUI cash-secured put?
- The breakeven for the SUI cash-secured put priced on this page is roughly $113.96 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 SUI market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 6.85%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a cash-secured put on SUI?
- Cash-secured puts on SUI earn premium while a trader waits to acquire SUI stock at a target strike below the current quote; most attractive when IV is rich and the trader is comfortable owning SUI.
- How does current SUI implied volatility affect this cash-secured put?
- SUI ATM IV is at 23.90% with IV rank near 3.52%, 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.