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Ardmore Shipping ASC

US equityMarket cap rank #3450Marine ShippingRed Sea Shipping Crisis
$18.48 −$0.34 (-1.81%)
Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:40 am ET · After hours $18.62 +0.76%
Open$18.97
Prev close$18.82
Day range$18.36 – $19.47
Volume828.3K
Market cap$754.94M
P/E (TTM)7.2
Dividend yield3.52%

Average implied volatility across the listed chain right now: 275%. Implied volatility measures how big a price swing the options market is pricing in — there is no fixed “normal” level, it varies a lot by stock.

Open interest by strike

2.507.5013182330CallsPuts

Nearest listed expiry only. Calls above the line, puts below — clusters mark strikes where the market has built up the most open positions.

Implied volatility by strike

-121%363%848%1332%2.501530CallsPuts

The “volatility smile”: strikes far from the current price often price in richer implied volatility than at-the-money strikes.

Calls

ExpiryStrikeLastBid/AskVolumeOpen interestIV
16 Oct 2026 $17.50 $1.37 $1.05/$1.35 5 403 52%
16 Oct 2026 $20.00 $0.15 $0.00/$0.25 2 797 55%
16 Oct 2026 $15.00 $3.96 $2.70/$4.90 0 57 141%
16 Oct 2026 $22.50 $0.01 $0.00/$0.10 0 133 60%
16 Oct 2026 $12.50 $6.39 $5.30/$7.40 0 0 233%
16 Oct 2026 $25.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.75 0 78 59%
16 Oct 2026 $10.00 $8.85 $8.10/$10.00 0 0 380%
16 Oct 2026 $7.50 $11.33 $10.30/$13.00 0 0 551%
16 Oct 2026 $30.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.75 0 0 87%
16 Oct 2026 $5.00 $13.83 $12.80/$15.30 0 2 732%
16 Oct 2026 $2.50 $16.32 $15.30/$18.00 0 0 1,211%

Puts

ExpiryStrikeLastBid/AskVolumeOpen interestIV
16 Oct 2026 $17.50 $0.20 $0.10/$0.70 0 1,045 74%
16 Oct 2026 $20.00 $1.39 $0.90/$1.80 0 127 0%
16 Oct 2026 $15.00 $0.13 $0.00/$0.75 0 397 107%
16 Oct 2026 $22.50 $3.68 $3.50/$4.30 0 1 0%
16 Oct 2026 $12.50 $0.06 $0.00/$0.75 0 88 149%
16 Oct 2026 $25.00 $6.30 $6.20/$6.60 2 2 0%
16 Oct 2026 $10.00 $0.02 $0.00/$0.75 0 4 188%
16 Oct 2026 $7.50 $0.01 $0.00/$0.75 0 0 229%
16 Oct 2026 $30.00 $11.18 $10.00/$12.10 0 0 0%
16 Oct 2026 $5.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.75 0 1 277%
16 Oct 2026 $2.50 $0.00 $0.00/$0.05 0 0 358%

Open interest = contracts currently outstanding (not yet closed out). Higher open interest generally means a strike/expiry is more actively traded and easier to get in and out of.

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