put_vs_shares
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-09-28, from can-you-buy-a-put-without-owning-the-stock.
| symbol | put_debit_usd | shares_cost_usd | put_pct_of_shares | as_of_label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPY | 828 | 76590 | 1.1 | Sep 24, 2026 |
| KO | 145 | 8819 | 1.6 | Sep 24, 2026 |
| AAPL | 645 | 33560 | 1.9 | Sep 24, 2026 |
| MSFT | 1030 | 49578 | 2.1 | Sep 24, 2026 |
| NVDA | 665 | 22384 | 3 | Sep 24, 2026 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 5
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…) | |
put_debit_usd |
number | 145 to 1,030 | US dollars |
shares_cost_usd |
number | 8,819 to 76,590 | US dollars |
put_pct_of_shares |
number | 1.1 to 3 | percent |
as_of_label |
text | 1 distinct value (Sep 24, 2026) |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
Run it yourself
This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
SELECT
symbol,
put_debit_usd,
shares_cost_usd,
round(100 * put_debit_usd / shares_cost_usd, 1) AS put_pct_of_shares,
as_of_label
FROM
(
SELECT
underlying_symbol AS symbol,
round(toFloat64(argMin(option_close, moneyness)) * 100, 0) AS put_debit_usd,
round(toFloat64(argMin(underlying_close, moneyness)) * 100, 0) AS shares_cost_usd,
formatDateTime(any(date), '%b %e, %Y') AS as_of_label
FROM
(
SELECT
underlying_symbol,
date,
option_close,
underlying_close,
abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) AS moneyness
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.options_greeks WHERE date >= today() - 40)
AND underlying_symbol IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY')
AND lower(option_type) IN ('put', 'p')
AND iv_converged = 1
AND volume > 0
AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 20 AND 45
AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.05
)
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
)
ORDER BY put_pct_of_shares
Work with this data in your AI assistant
Opens ready to query, with this page's data. Free, no account.