UCTT Strangle Strategy
UCTT (Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.), in the Technology sector, (Semiconductors industry), listed on NASDAQ.
Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. develops and supplies critical subsystems, components and parts, and ultra-high purity cleaning and analytical services for the semiconductor industry in the United States and internationally. The company provides ultra-clean valves, high purity connectors, industrial process connectors and valves, pneumatic actuators, manifolds and safety solutions, hoses, pressure gauges, and gas line and component heaters; chemical delivery modules that deliver gases and reactive chemicals in a liquid or gaseous form from a centralized subsystem to the reaction chamber; and gas delivery systems, such as weldments, filters, mass flow controllers, regulators, pressure transducers and valves, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system. It also offers various industrial and automation production equipment; fluid delivery systems consist of one or more chemical delivery units, including PFA tubing, filters, flow controllers, regulators, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system; precision robotic systems; top-plate assemblies; frame assemblies; process modules, a subsystem of semiconductor manufacturing tools that process integrated circuits onto wafers; and other high-level assemblies. In addition, the company provides tool chamber parts cleaning and coating services; micro-contamination analysis services for tool parts, wafers and depositions, chemicals, cleanroom materials, deionized water, and airborne molecular contamination; and analytical verification services for process tool chamber part cleaning. It primarily serves original equipment manufacturing customers in the semiconductor capital equipment and semiconductor integrated device manufacturing industries, as well as display, consumer, medical, energy, industrial, and research equipment industries. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.
UCTT (Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.) trades in the Technology sector, specifically Semiconductors, with a market capitalization of approximately $3.81B, a beta of 1.94 versus the broader market, a 52-week range of 18.93-88.37, average daily share volume of 1.4M, a public-listing history dating back to 2004, approximately 7K full-time employees. These structural characteristics shape how UCTT stock options price implied volatility around earnings windows, capital events, and macro-driven sector rotations.
A beta of 1.94 indicates UCTT 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 strangle on UCTT?
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 UCTT snapshot
As of May 15, 2026, spot at $85.54, ATM IV 80.70%, IV rank 37.90%, expected move 23.14%. The strangle on UCTT 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 UCTT specifically: UCTT IV at 80.70% 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 23.14% (roughly $19.79 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 UCTT expiries trade a higher absolute premium for lower per-day decay. Position sizing on UCTT should anchor to the underlying notional of $85.54 per share and to the trader's directional view on UCTT stock.
UCTT strangle setup
The UCTT 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 UCTT near $85.54, 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 UCTT 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 UCTT shares for the stock leg in covered calls and collars).
| Action | Type | Strike / Basis | Premium (est) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy 1 | Call | $90.00 | $6.60 |
| Buy 1 | Put | $80.00 | $5.45 |
UCTT strangle risk and reward
- Net Premium / Debit
- -$1,205.00
- Max Profit (per contract)
- Unbounded
- Max Loss (per contract)
- -$1,205.00
- Breakeven(s)
- $67.95, $102.05
- Risk / Reward Ratio
- Unbounded
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.
UCTT strangle payoff curve
Modeled P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices for the strangle on UCTT. 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% | +$6,794.00 |
| $18.92 | -77.9% | +$4,902.77 |
| $37.83 | -55.8% | +$3,011.55 |
| $56.75 | -33.7% | +$1,120.32 |
| $75.66 | -11.6% | -$770.90 |
| $94.57 | +10.6% | -$747.87 |
| $113.48 | +32.7% | +$1,143.36 |
| $132.40 | +54.8% | +$3,034.58 |
| $151.31 | +76.9% | +$4,925.81 |
| $170.22 | +99.0% | +$6,817.04 |
When traders use strangle on UCTT
Strangles on UCTT 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 UCTT chain.
UCTT thesis for this strangle
The market-implied 1-standard-deviation range for UCTT extends from approximately $65.75 on the downside to $105.33 on the upside. A UCTT 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 UCTT IV rank near 37.90% is mid-range against its 1-year distribution, so the IV signal is neutral; the strangle thesis on UCTT should anchor more to the directional view and the expected-move geometry. As a Technology name, UCTT options can move on sector-level news flow (peer earnings, regulatory updates, industry-specific macro data) in addition to UCTT-specific events.
UCTT 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. UCTT positions also carry Technology sector concentration risk; news flow inside the sector (peer earnings, regulatory shifts, supply-chain headlines) can move UCTT alongside the broader basket even when UCTT-specific fundamentals are unchanged. Always rebuild the position from current UCTT chain quotes before placing a trade.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a strangle on UCTT?
- A strangle on UCTT is the strangle strategy applied to UCTT (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 UCTT stock trading near $85.54, the strikes shown on this page are snapped to the nearest listed UCTT chain strike and the premiums come straight from the end-of-day bid/ask midpoint.
- How are UCTT 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 UCTT strangle priced from the end-of-day chain at a 30-day expiry (ATM IV 80.70%), the computed maximum profit is unbounded per contract and the computed maximum loss is -$1,205.00 per contract. Live intraday quotes will differ as the chain moves through the trading session.
- What is the breakeven for a UCTT strangle?
- The breakeven for the UCTT strangle priced on this page is roughly $67.95 and $102.05 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 UCTT market-implied 1-standard-deviation expected move is approximately 23.14%; if the move sits well outside the breakeven distance, the structure's risk-reward becomes correspondingly tighter.
- When should you consider a strangle on UCTT?
- Strangles on UCTT 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 UCTT chain.
- How does current UCTT implied volatility affect this strangle?
- UCTT ATM IV is at 80.70% with IV rank near 37.90%, 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.