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Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises BW

US equityMarket cap rank #3374Specialty Industrial Machinery
$5.64 −$0.27 (-4.57%)
Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:10 am ET · After hours $5.70 +1.06%
Open$5.60
Prev close$5.91
Day range$5.45 – $5.72
Volume6.88M
Market cap$840.16M
P/E (TTM)–
Dividend yield–

Average implied volatility across the listed chain right now: 237%. 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

1.003.005.007.009.0011131517CallsPuts

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

-53%159%371%583%1.009.0017CallsPuts

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 $6.00 $0.18 $0.15/$0.25 167 1,389 99%
16 Oct 2026 $5.00 $0.64 $0.55/$0.85 1 30 81%
16 Oct 2026 $7.00 $0.05 $0.00/$0.10 18 1,384 111%
16 Oct 2026 $4.00 $1.52 $1.55/$1.85 3 108 174%
16 Oct 2026 $8.00 $0.05 $0.00/$0.05 1 1,207 156%
16 Oct 2026 $3.00 $2.52 $2.20/$2.80 3 10 0%
16 Oct 2026 $9.00 $0.02 $0.00/$0.10 2 1,068 163%
16 Oct 2026 $2.00 $3.53 $3.50/$3.90 2 4 444%
16 Oct 2026 $10.00 $0.02 $0.00/$0.05 3 640 191%
16 Oct 2026 $1.00 $4.53 $4.50/$4.80 3 4 523%
16 Oct 2026 $11.00 $0.01 $0.00/$0.05 0 6 184%
16 Oct 2026 $12.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.05 0 0 192%
16 Oct 2026 $13.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.05 0 7 200%
16 Oct 2026 $14.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.30 0 1 206%
16 Oct 2026 $15.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.05 0 1 212%

Puts

ExpiryStrikeLastBid/AskVolumeOpen interestIV
16 Oct 2026 $6.00 $0.55 $0.40/$0.60 151 366 82%
16 Oct 2026 $5.00 $0.11 $0.00/$0.15 4 155 106%
16 Oct 2026 $7.00 $1.50 $1.25/$1.55 10 381 108%
16 Oct 2026 $4.00 $0.02 $0.00/$0.30 0 0 141%
16 Oct 2026 $8.00 $2.12 $2.10/$2.70 0 84 153%
16 Oct 2026 $3.00 $0.00 $0.00/$0.05 0 2 179%
16 Oct 2026 $9.00 $3.10 $3.10/$3.60 0 2 0%
16 Oct 2026 $2.00 $0.06 $0.00/$0.05 2 2 447%
16 Oct 2026 $10.00 $4.09 $4.20/$4.60 0 7 223%
16 Oct 2026 $1.00 $0.01 $0.00/$0.05 2 2 530%
16 Oct 2026 $11.00 $5.09 $5.00/$5.80 0 0 251%
16 Oct 2026 $12.00 $6.09 $6.10/$6.80 0 0 318%
16 Oct 2026 $13.00 $7.09 $7.00/$7.80 0 0 298%
16 Oct 2026 $14.00 $8.09 $8.00/$8.80 0 0 319%
16 Oct 2026 $15.00 $9.09 $9.00/$9.80 0 0 337%

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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