Trading a BKU straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on BankUnited Inc without committing to a direction. BankUnited Inc's straddle involves buying (or selling) a call and a put at the same strike and expiration, profiting when the stock moves more (or less) than the combined premium implies. Use our scanner to evaluate BKU straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on BKU profits from large moves in either direction and is a classic play into binary events like earnings, product announcements, or macro releases. A short straddle profits when BankUnited Inc stays range-bound and implied volatility contracts. The breakeven points are simple: strike plus total premium on the upside, strike minus total premium on the downside. Comparing the BKU straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
BankUnited, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for BankUnited, a national banking association that provides a range of banking services in the United States. The company offers deposit products, such as checking, money market deposit, and savings accounts; certificates of deposit; and treasury, commercial payment, and cash management services. Its loans portfolio includes commercial loans, including equipment loans, secured and unsecured lines of credit, formula-based loans, owner-occupied commercial real estate term loans and lines of credit, mortgage warehouse lines, letters of credit, commercial credit cards, small business administration and U.S.
department of agriculture product offerings, export-import bank financing products, trade finance, and business acquisition finance credit facilities; commercial real estate loans; residential mortgages; and other consumer loans. The company also offers online, mobile, and telephone banking services. As of December 31, 2021, it operated through a network of 63 banking centers located in 13 Florida counties; and 4 banking centers in the New York metropolitan area. The company was formerly known as BU Financial Corporation. BankUnited, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the BKU straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every BKU straddle against historical realized moves, flags expirations where the market is overpaying or underpaying for vol, and ranks setups by breakeven width and IV rank. Whether you're long a BKU straddle into a catalyst or short a BKU straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
