TTC Bear Put Spread Strategy
TTC (The Toro Company), in the Industrials sector, (Manufacturing - Tools & Accessories industry), listed on NYSE.
The Toro Company engages in the designing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling professional and residential equipment worldwide. The company's Professional segment offers turf and landscape equipment products, including sports fields and grounds mowing and maintenance equipment, golf course mowing and maintenance equipment, landscape contractor mowing equipment, landscape creation and renovation equipment, and other maintenance equipment; rental, specialty, and underground construction equipment; and snow and ice management equipment, such as snowplows, brush, snow thrower attachment, salt and sand spreaders, and related parts and accessories for light and medium duty trucks, utility task vehicles, skid steers, and front-end loaders. It also provides irrigation and lighting products that consist of sprinkler heads, electric and hydraulic valves, controllers, computer irrigation central control systems, coupling systems, and ag-irrigation drip tape and hose products, as well as professionally installed landscape lighting products offered through distributors and landscape contractors. This segment sells its products primarily through a network of distributors and dealers to professional users engaged in maintaining golf courses, sports fields, municipal properties, agricultural fields, residential and commercial landscapes, and removing snow and ice, as well as directly to government customers, rental companies, and retailers. Its Residential segment provides walk power mowers, zero-turn riding mowers, snow throwers, replacement parts, and home solution products that include grass and hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, blower-vacuums, chainsaws, string trimmers, hoses, and hose-end retail irrigation products. This segment sells its products to homeowners through a network of distributors and dealers; and home centers, hardware retailers, and mass retailers, as well as online.
TTC (The Toro Company) trades in the Industrials sector, specifically Manufacturing - Tools & Accessories, with a market capitalization of approximately $8.87B, a trailing P/E of 26.93, a beta of 0.73 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 67.04-105.19, average daily share volume of 811K, a public-listing history dating back to 1980, approximately 11K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how TTC stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 0.73 places TTC roughly in line with broader market moves, so the strategy payoff and realized volatility track the index-equivalent baseline. TTC pays a dividend, which adjusts put-call parity and shifts the ex-dividend pricing across the listed chain.
What is a bear put spread on TTC?
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 TTC snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $88.56, ATM IV 35.60%, IV rank 3.53%, expected move 10.21%. The bear put spread on TTC 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 126-day expiry.
Why this bear put spread structure on TTC specifically: TTC IV at 35.60% is on the cheap side of its 1-year range, which favors premium-buying structures like a TTC bear put spread, with a market-implied 1-standard-deviation move of approximately 10.21% (roughly $9.04 on the underlying). The 126-day window matched to the front-month expiry keeps theta exposure bounded while still capturing the post-snapshot move; longer-dated TTC expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on TTC should anchor to the underlying notional of $88.56 per share and to the trader's directional view on TTC stock.
TTC bear put spread setup
The TTC 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 TTC near $88.56, the first option leg uses a $90.00 strike; additional legs (when the strategy has them) anchor to spot-relative offsets. Premiums come from the bid/ask midpoint on the listed TTC chain at a 126-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 TTC shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Put | $90.00 | $6.75 |
| Sell 1 | Put | $85.00 | $4.03 |
TTC bear put spread risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$272.50
- Max Profit (per contract)
- $227.50
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$272.50
- Breakeven(s)
- $87.28
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- 0.835
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.
TTC bear put spread payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the bear put spread on TTC. 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% | +$227.50 |
| $19.59 | -77.9% | +$227.50 |
| $39.17 | -55.8% | +$227.50 |
| $58.75 | -33.7% | +$227.50 |
| $78.33 | -11.6% | +$227.50 |
| $97.91 | +10.6% | -$272.50 |
| $117.49 | +32.7% | -$272.50 |
| $137.07 | +54.8% | -$272.50 |
| $156.65 | +76.9% | -$272.50 |
| $176.23 | +99.0% | -$272.50 |
When traders use bear put spread on TTC
Bear put spreads on TTC reduce the cost of a bearish TTC stock position by selling a lower-strike put; suited to moderate-decline theses where price reaches but does not vastly exceed the short strike.
TTC thesis for this bear put spread
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for TTC extends from approximately $79.52 on the downside to $97.60 on the upside. A TTC bear put spread caps both the risk and the reward of a bearish position; relative to an outright long put on TTC, the spread reduces the cost basis but limits the maximum profit to the strike width minus net debit. Current TTC IV rank near 3.53% 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 TTC at 35.60%. As a Industrials name, TTC options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to TTC-specific events.
TTC 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. TTC positions also carry Industrials sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move TTC alongside the broader basket even when TTC-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Long-premium structures like a bear put spread on TTC 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 TTC chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a bear put spread on TTC?
- A bear put spread on TTC is the bear put spread strategy applied to TTC (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 TTC stock trading near $88.56, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed TTC chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are TTC 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 TTC bear put spread priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 35.60%), the computed maximum profit is $227.50 per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$272.50 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a TTC bear put spread?
- The breakeven for the TTC bear put spread priced on this page is roughly $87.28 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 TTC market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 10.21%; 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 TTC?
- Bear put spreads on TTC reduce the cost of a bearish TTC 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 TTC implied volatility affect this bear put spread?
- TTC ATM IV is at 35.60% with IV rank near 3.53%, 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.