Trading a PFGC straddle lets you take a pure volatility position on Performance Food Group Company without committing to a direction. Performance Food Group Company'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 PFGC straddle pricing in real time and find the moments when expected moves are mispriced.
A long straddle on PFGC 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 Performance Food Group Company 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 PFGC straddle price to historical realized moves helps you judge whether the market is overpaying or underpaying for volatility.
Performance Food Group Company, through its subsidiaries, markets and distributes food and food-related products in the United States. It operates through three segments: Foodservice, Vistar, and Convenience. The company offers a range of frozen foods, groceries, candy, snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and other tobacco products; beef, pork, poultry, and seafood; and health and beauty care products. It also sells disposables, cleaning and kitchen supplies, and related products. In addition, the company offers value-added services, such as product selection and procurement, menu development, and operational strategy.
It serves independent and chain restaurants, schools, business and industry locations, hospitals, vending distributors, office coffee service distributors, retailers, convenience stores, theaters, hospitality providers, concessionaires, airport gift shops, college bookstores, corrections facilities, and impulse locations, as well as franchises and other institutional customers. Performance Food Group Company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
Earnings, product cycles, macro prints — any time volatility itself is the trade, the PFGC straddle is the cleanest expression of that view. Our scanner prices every PFGC 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 PFGC straddle into a catalyst or short a PFGC straddle to harvest decay, the options straddle setups that matter are all in one place.
