How to Use strike price in a Sentence

strike price

noun
Definition of strike pricenext
  • The good news for Musk: the strike price is six bucks and 24 cents.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The strike price is the price at which the option can be exercised.
    — Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The strike price refers to the price at which a put or call option can be exercised.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • At the time, the strike price was slightly above where Bank of America’s shares were trading.
    — Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The strike price corresponds to the company’s share price on the day the options were granted.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Musk's strike price is $70, at which Tesla was selling when the program launched.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The options give traders the right, but not the obligation, to sell Tesla shares at that strike price by tomorrow.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2022
  • In response, JPMorgan says it was allowed—and did—lower the strike price of the warrants.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2021
  • If the stock price finishes expiration above the strike price, the call option is in the money.
    — James Royal, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • One such case would be if your option strike prices are far above the price at which the company is expected to IPO.
    — Scott Chou, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Joe exercises his put option and sells his shares at his strike price of $50.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Reflecting that, the strike price for the notes, or the level at which the notes would be fulfilled by a conversion into Tesla...
    — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
  • Tesla will need to pay down the bonds entirely with cash if its shares average below the strike price from Jan. 29 through Feb. 26.
    — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Without further measures, if the shares rise above the strike price, the option seller will have to acquire those shares in the open market, at a loss, to fulfill the contract.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • And options are worthless unless the company’s share price increases above the grant-date strike price.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • And options are worthless unless the company’s share price increases above the grant-date strike price.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Investors can buy cheap out-of-the-money options with a strike price way below where the security currently trades.
    — Laurence Fletcher, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The figures show that investors placed some highly optimistic bets, with many purchasing call options on ether with a $5,000 strike price.
    — Charles Bovaird, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Traders profit if the underlying currency climbs or drops from the strike price—the price at which options are exercised—enough to exceed the total amount paid for the options.
    — Amrith Ramkumar and Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2020
  • But if the company’s stock price fall below the strike price, the options are underwater and considered worthless.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • On expiry, if the market price of the underlying asset is below the strike price, the call buyer will not exercise the right to buy the contract, and the premium (yield) is kept by the option seller.
    — Laura Vidiella Del Blanco, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Heston showed the jurors how a short-term call option expiring one month after Musk’s tweet, at a strike price of $420 – the share price at which Musk said Tesla would go private – rose almost $2.
    — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • This strategy works well in a falling—or at least volatile—market, because if a stock closes below the strike price, EXD keeps its shares and the premium option buyers pay.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • The metal fell, striking Price and severely injuring him.
    — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2017
  • In this case, some of the insiders exercised older options with strike prices in the $20 to $30 range and then immediately sold them, profiting in the difference between the strike and current prices.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 17 June 2019
  • All financial options have an expiration date, after which the premium is lost if the value of the underlying instrument does not move past the strike price.
    — Garth Friesen, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Gerry Lemcke of Swiss Re, which offers parametric insurance against pandemics, flight delays and hurricane damage to coral reefs, sees it as working rather like derivatives in finance, which have a strike price.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2019
  • Similar federal insurance programs are used to guarantee minimum prices for certain crops, with the government making up the difference between the market price and a pre-agreed strike price.
    — Daniel Baer, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2024
  • Employee equity upside is tied to the company’s 409A valuation, which represents the fair market value of a company’s common stock and is used to determine the option strike price.
    — Dharmesh Thakker, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But to enhance retention during restructuring, the compensation committee -- acting without investor approval -- reduced the strike price for all awards to $9.45 a share.
    — Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2018

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