Carriage Services Inc (CSV) Straddle

Trading a CSV straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Carriage Services Inc without committing to a direction. Carriage Services 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 CSV straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.

A long straddle on CSV 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 Carriage Services 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 CSV straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.

Carriage Services, Inc. provides funeral and cemetery services, and merchandise in the United States. It operates through two segments, Funeral Home Operations and Cemetery Operations. The Funeral Home Operations segment engages in the provision of consultation, funeral home facilities for visitation and memorial services, and transportation services; removal and preparation of remains; and sale of burial and cremation services, and related merchandise, such as caskets and urns. The Cemetery Operations segment provides interment rights for grave sites, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, and niche; related cemetery merchandise, including outer burial containers, memorial markers, monuments, and floral placements; and interments, inurnments, and installation of cemetery merchandise services.

As of December 31, 2021, it operated 170 funeral homes in 26 states and 31 cemeteries in 11 states. Carriage Services, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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