Designer Brands Stock Options
| DBI Stock | USD 2.87 0.04 1.41% |
Designer Brands' latest option contracts expiring on October 17th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 1.32 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.34 over 20 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on October 17th 2025. The total put volume is at 1.0, with calls trading at the volume of 6.0. This yields a 0.17 put-to-call volume ratio.
Open Interest Against October 17th 2025 Option Contracts
2025-10-17
The chart above shows Designer Brands' distribution of open interest by maturity on contracts that have not yet been settled. The area between the two highest points is the projection of the price at expiration. Designer Brands' open interest chart also provides vital information regarding the liquidity of an option. If there is no open interest for Designer Brands' option, there is no secondary market available for investors to trade.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Designer Brands
Analyzing Designer Brands' in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Designer Brands regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Designer Brands' options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Designer Brands' options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Designer Brands' stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Designer Brands In The Money Call Balance
When Designer Brands' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Designer Brands stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Designer Brands' options that are 'In the Money' or 'Out of the Money', the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
While 'out-of-the-money' option contracts written on Designer Brands are typically viewed as the more aggressive, there are potential upsides to purchasing these types of options contracts. For one, the cost to buy an 'Out of the Money' option is lower than the cost to buy an 'In the Money' option. This cost-benefit is due to the fact that at the time of the purchase, 'Out of the Money' contracts have no intrinsic value. So, while the potential for a 100% loss is more significant, the cost and risk to enter the trade are lower.
Designer Current Options Market Mood
Designer Brands' open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps Designer Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.
Put-to-Call Open Interest
Put-to-Call Volume
Unfortunately, most Designer Brands' options investors are not very successful. Designer Brands' option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.
Rule 16 of the current Designer contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Designer Brands will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0825% per day over the life of the 2025-10-17 option contract. With Designer Brands trading at USD 2.87, that is roughly USD 0.002368. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Designer Brands' daily price movement you should consider buying Designer Brands options at the current volatility level of 1.32%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
Purchasing Designer Brands options can give investors a meaningful hedge against losses and, therefore, could be used conservatively to decrease the volatility of your portfolio. However, many options could also amount to little more than gambling, significantly enhancing your overall portfolio risk. One simple example of these aggressive strategies is the sale of "uncovered" Designer calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Designer Brands stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Designer Brands Option Chain
When Designer Brands' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Designer Brands stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying options that are ITM or OTM, the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
Designer Brands' option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Designer. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Designer. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Designer Brands against a given expiration period. The table below combines all the option information in the form of a chain but before you use it, remember that it entails significant risk and it is not for everyone. | Open Int | Strike Price | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | DBI251017C00010000 | 10 | 10.0 | 0.0 - 0.1 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | DBI251017C00009000 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.75 | |
Call | DBI251017C00008000 | 101 | 8.0 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | DBI251017C00007000 | 162 | 7.0 | 0.0 - 0.75 | 0.1 | Out |
Call | DBI251017C00006000 | 416 | 6.0 | 0.0 - 0.2 | 0.05 | Out |
Call | DBI251017C00005000 | 1310 | 5.0 | 0.0 - 0.15 | 0.16 | Out |
Call | DBI251017C00004000 | 811 | 4.0 | 0.0 - 0.3 | 0.17 | Out |
Call | DBI251017C00003000 | 867 | 3.0 | 0.4 - 0.5 | 0.45 | Out |
Call | DBI251017C00002000 | 139 | 2.0 | 0.95 - 1.1 | 1.17 | In |
Call | DBI251017C00001000 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.85 - 2.0 | 1.85 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00001000 | 50 | 1.0 | 0.0 - 0.55 | 0.55 | Out |
Put | DBI251017P00002000 | 305 | 2.0 | 0.0 - 0.25 | 0.16 | Out |
Put | DBI251017P00003000 | 623 | 3.0 | 0.55 - 0.65 | 0.58 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00004000 | 264 | 4.0 | 1.25 - 1.35 | 1.39 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00005000 | 65 | 5.0 | 2.15 - 2.25 | 1.56 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00006000 | 3 | 6.0 | 3.1 - 3.2 | 2.78 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00007000 | 0 | 7.0 | 4.1 - 4.2 | 4.1 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00008000 | 4 | 8.0 | 5.0 - 5.2 | 5.0 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00009000 | 2 | 9.0 | 6.1 - 6.2 | 6.1 | In |
Put | DBI251017P00010000 | 0 | 10.0 | 6.6 - 7.2 | 6.6 | In |
Designer Brands Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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Designer Total Stockholder Equity
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Designer Brands Corporate Directors
| Joseph Schottenstein | Director | Profile | |
| Allan Tanenbaum | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Elaine Eisenman | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Carolee Lee | Independent Director | Profile |
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Quarterly Earnings Growth 0.412 | Dividend Share 0.2 | Earnings Share (0.57) | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.08) |
The market value of Designer Brands is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Designer that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Designer Brands' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Designer Brands' true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Designer Brands' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Designer Brands' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Designer Brands' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Designer Brands is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Designer Brands' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.