Trading a KBH straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on KB Home without committing to a direction. KB Home'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 KBH straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on KBH 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 KB Home 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 KBH straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
KB Home operates as a homebuilding company in the United States. It operates through four segments: West Coast, Southwest, Central, and Southeast. It builds and sells various homes, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums primarily for first-time, first move-up, second move-up, and active adult homebuyers. The company also offers financial services, such as insurance products and title services. It has operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington. The company was formerly known as Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation and changed its name to KB Home in January 2001.
KB Home was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the KBH straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every KBH 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 KBH straddle into a catalyst or short a KBH straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
