Trading a KNF straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Knife River Corp without committing to a direction. Knife River 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 KNF straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on KNF 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 Knife River 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 KNF straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Knife River Corporation provides aggregates-based construction materials and contracting services in the United States. It operates through six segments: Pacific, Northwest, Mountain, North Central, South, and Energy Services. The company mines, processes, and sells construction aggregates, including crushed stone and sand, and gravel; and produces and sells asphalt and ready-mix concrete, as well as provides contracting services to support the aggregate-based product lines, including heavy-civil construction, asphalt and concrete paving, and site development and grading. It serves federal, state, and municipal governments for various projects, such as highways, bridges, airports, schools, public buildings, and other public-infrastructure projects.
The company was founded in 1917 and is based in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the KNF straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every KNF 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 KNF straddle into a catalyst or short a KNF straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
