TR Long Put Strategy
TR (Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.), in the Consumer Defensive sector, (Food Confectioners industry), listed on NYSE.
Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacture and sale of confectionery products in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. It sells its products under the Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pops, Child's Play, Caramel Apple Pops, Charms, Blow-Pop, Charms Mini Pops, Cella's, Dots, Junior Mints, Charleston Chew, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Babies, Andes, Fluffy Stuff, Dubble Bubble, Razzles, Cry Baby, NIK-L-NIP, and Tutsi Pop trademarks. The company sells its products directly to wholesale distributors of candy, food and groceries, supermarkets, variety stores, dollar stores, chain grocers, drug chains, discount chains, cooperative grocery associations, mass merchandisers, warehouse and membership club stores, vending machine operators, e-commerce merchants, the United States military, and fund-raising charitable organizations, as well as through food and grocery brokers. Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. was founded in 1896 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
TR (Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.) trades in the Consumer Defensive sector, specifically Food Confectioners, with a market capitalization of approximately $3.05B, a trailing P/E of 30.56, a beta of 0.45 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 31.15534-45.06, average daily share volume of 133K, a public-listing history dating back to 1980, approximately 2K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how TR stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.45 indicates TR has historically moved less than the broader market, dampening realized volatility and producing tighter expected-move bands per unit of dollar exposure. TR pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a long put on TR?
A long put buys downside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes below the strike minus premium at expiration.
Current TR snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $40.55, ATM IV 30.00%, IV rank 21.11%, expected move 8.60%. The long put on TR 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 long put structure on TR specifically: TR IV at 30.00% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a TR long put, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 8.60% (roughly $3.49 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 TR expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on TR should anchor to the underlying notional of $40.55 per share and to the trader's directional view on TR stock.
TR long put setup
The TR long 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 TR near $40.55, the first option leg uses a $40.55 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed TR 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 TR shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $40.55 | N/A |
TR long put 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 the strike minus premium times 100 (reached at zero); max loss equals the premium times 100. Breakeven is strike minus premium.
TR long put payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the long put on TR. 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 put on TR
Long puts on TR hedge an existing long TR stock position or express a bearish view with defined risk; position sizing typically scales the put notional to the underlying TR exposure being hedged.
TR thesis for this long put
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for TR extends from approximately $37.06 on the downside to $44.04 on the upside. A TR long put expresses a directional view that the underlying closes below the strike minus premium at expiration, frequently sized to hedge an existing long TR position with one put per 100 shares held. Current TR IV rank near 21.11% 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 TR at 30.00%. As a Consumer Defensive name, TR options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to TR-specific events.
TR long put positions are structurally 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. TR positions also carry Consumer Defensive sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move TR alongside the broader basket even when TR-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a long put on TR 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 TR chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a long put on TR?
- A long put on TR is the long put strategy applied to TR (stock). The strategy is structurally bearish: A long put buys downside exposure with a fixed maximum loss equal to the premium paid; profit accrues if the underlying closes below the strike minus premium at expiration. With TR stock trading near $40.55, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed TR chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are TR long put max profit and max loss calculated?
- Max profit equals the strike minus premium times 100 (reached at zero); max loss equals the premium times 100. Breakeven is strike minus premium. For the TR long put priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 30.00%), 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 TR long put?
- The breakeven for the TR long put 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 TR market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 8.60%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a long put on TR?
- Long puts on TR hedge an existing long TR stock position or express a bearish view with defined risk; position sizing typically scales the put notional to the underlying TR exposure being hedged.
- How does current TR implied volatility affect this long put?
- TR ATM IV is at 30.00% with IV rank near 21.11%, 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.