KGC250801P00017000 Option on Kinross Gold

An 'In The Money' option is one with a strike price that the current stock price has already surpassed. Some options investors can hedge their Kinross Gold positions using in-the-money options. They may also want to buy options with some intrinsic value, not just time value. However, because in-the-money options on Kinross Stock have intrinsic value and are priced higher than out-of-the-money options in the same chain, their volatilities are relatively smaller.

Kinross Gold's Option Greeks for the contract ending on 2025-08-01 at a strike price of 17.0 measures the various factors that affect its cost and calculated using a theoretical options pricing model. It helps investors make more informed decisions about whether to trade this option contract or when to trade it. In addition to Kinross Gold's option greeks, its implied volatility helps estimate the risk of Kinross Gold stock implied by the prices of the options on Kinross Gold's stock.

Put options written on Kinross Gold grant holders of the option the right to sell a specified amount of Kinross Gold at a specified price within a specified time frame. The put buyer has a limited loss and, while not fully unlimited gains, as the price of Kinross Stock cannot fall below zero, the put buyer does gain as the price drops. So, purchasing a put option on Kinross Gold is like buying insurance aginst Kinross Gold's downside shift.

By selling Kinross Gold's put option, the investors signal their bearish sentiment. A short position in a put option written on Kinross Gold will generally make money when the underlying price is above the strike price. Therefore Kinross Gold's put payoff at expiration depends on where the Kinross Stock price is relative to the put option strike price. The breakeven price of 15.66 is the critical point that divides the payoff function into two parts. Below the breakeven price, the payoff is dropping and negative (the seller makes a loss). Above the breakeven price, the payoff line is upward sloping as the option payoff increases in proportion to Kinross Gold's price. Finally, at the strike price of 17.0, the payoff chart is constant and positive.

Kinross Gold's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Kinross. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Kinross. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Kinross Gold 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.

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Is Metals & Mining space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Kinross Gold. If investors know Kinross will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Kinross Gold listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.

The market value of Kinross Gold is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Kinross that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Kinross Gold's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Kinross Gold's 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 Kinross Gold's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Kinross Gold's 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 Kinross Gold's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Kinross Gold is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Kinross Gold's 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.