Options Corner: UnitedHealth's Rocky Start To The New Year Offers A Contrarian Proposition

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Still, the main issue appears to be the fiscal 2026 revenue forecast of over $439 billion. Unfortunately, analysts were anticipating a consensus target of $454.6 billion. Not surprisingly, UNH stock ...

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Unfortunately, analysts were anticipating a consensus target of $454.6 billion. Not surprisingly, UNH stock fell sharply following the disclosure. Since the beginning of January, the security has found itself down 12%. Despite the ugliness, though, the smart money doesn't seem too fazed.\nBasically, when you look at the volatility skew, the chart resembles a smile, with the right wing extending further and deeper than the left wing. This setup suggests that the priority isn't protecting against sharp downside volatility. If that were the case, we would expect put IV to rise much more intensely in the lower strike boundaries and create a conspicuous separation from call IV. We don't see that at all in the skew.\nThat's not to suggest that the smart money is lackadaisical about downside risk. With put IV elevated at the right wing of the skew, one possibility may be to create a synthetic short position, perhaps to protect long exposure to UNH stock.\nFor me, the biggest takeaway is that the skew is relatively calm near the spot price, which implies a lack of panicked hedging. While no one indicator can fully justify a directional trade, there may be an opportunity to go contrarian here.\nWhere does this dispersion come from? Black-Scholes assumes a world where stock market returns are lognormally distributed. Under this framework, the above range represents where UNH stock may symmetrically fall one standard deviation away from spot (while accounting for volatility and days to expiration).\nBottom line, Black-Scholes claims that in 68% of cases, UnitedHealth stock would be expected to trade within the prescribed range 35 days from now. It's a reasonable assumption, if only for the fact that it would take an extraordinary catalyst to push a security beyond one standard deviation from spot. That said, we still don't have enough information to help narrow down a directional debit-based trade with confidence.\nTo be transparent, we have effectively reached the maximum utility of first-order analyses. Through the volatility skew and expected move calculator, we know how the market is pricing uncertainty. What we don't know is whether that pricing is accurate, for lack of a better word.\nFrankly, we stand at parity with educated traders. That's not edge; that's just starting from the baseline.\nWhat we really have is the classic search-and-rescue (SAR) conundrum. Black-Scholes has identified a distress signal that has pinged somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. With additional tools, we are able to establish a search radius. The problem, of course, is that we have limited resources (and sunlight). We can't dedicate a full-on effort to find one survivor.\nAt some point, we need to take observational data and condition it based on core influencing factors. That's the heart of second-order analysis and this is also where the Markov property comes into play.\nUnder Markov, the future state of a system depends entirely on the present state. Colloquially, forward probabilities should not be calculated independently but be assessed in context. Extending the SAR analogy, different ocean currents — such as choppy waves versus calm waters — can easily influence where a shipwrecked survivor is likely to drift.\nHere's how we can leverage the Markov property for trading UnitedHealth stock. In the last five weeks, UNH printed only two up weeks, leading to an overall downward slope. There's nothing special about this 2-3-D sequence, per se. However, this quantitative signal represents a specific type of ocean current. As such, survivors caught in these waters would be expected to drift in a distinct manner that needs to be accounted for in a probabilistic model.\nYou see, one of the structural limitations of Black-Scholes is that volatility is actually an independent input. Where the Markov property arouses controversy within finance circles is that volatility (or more precisely market breadth in this case) represents a dependent input. In other words, had UNH stock flashed a different signal, we would calculate a different distribution.\nIf you look at all expected move calculations for any stock, Black-Scholes will always calculate a perfectly symmetrical distribution. I fundamentally dispute this claim.\nAnyways, going back to UNH stock, using a combo of enumerative induction and Bayesian-inspired inference, the forward five-week distribution is projected to be between $288 and $302, with probability density peaking around $297.\nBased on the market intelligence above, I'm tempted by the 290/300 bull call spread expiring March 20. For this wager to be fully profitable, UNH stock must rise through the $300 strike at expiration, which is an aggressive but rational target (relative to the implications of the aforementioned Markovian model).\nShould the strike be triggered accordingly, the maximum payout would be over 122%. Breakeven lands at $294.50, helping to significantly improve the trade's probabilistic credibility.\nImage: Shutterstock\nTo add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.36.2","shortVersion":"4.36.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2611198688","isCrawlerRequest":true}