Boston Omaha Corp (BOC) Straddle

Trading a BOC straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Boston Omaha Corp without committing to a direction. Boston Omaha Corp'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 BOC straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on BOC 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 Boston Omaha Corp 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 BOC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Boston Omaha Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the outdoor billboard advertising business in the southeast United States. It is also involved in the surety insurance and related brokerage, broadband, and investment businesses. The company provides high-speed internet service to approximately 7,000 subscribers in communities in southern Arizona; and 10,000 subscribers in Salt Lake City, Park City, Ogden, Provo, and surrounding communities. As of March 25, 2022, it operated approximately 3,900 billboards containing approximately 7,400 advertising faces of which 80 are digital displays.

The company was formerly known as REO Plus, Inc. and changed its name to Boston Omaha Corporation in March 2015. Boston Omaha Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the BOC straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every BOC 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 BOC straddle into a catalyst or short a BOC straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.