Consumer Staples

Albertsons Companies, Inc. (ACI) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

ACI is Albertsons Companies, Inc., a Consumer Staples name the model ranks every trading day. The options figures are from the close on 28 Sep 2026. The model's figures are from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind the latest, as the Free plan shows them. Every model figure is paper trading.

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At a glance

Figure	Value	Date
Priced move to 30 Oct	15.3% down, 20.3% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	15 and 12	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	11.64	28 Sep
Next report	13 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

ACI's at the money implied volatility is 62.4 percent on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	Not stated, 0 weeks of record
At the money IV	62.4%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.28
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	54,600 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	15,100 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 129.4% of the option's mid price

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Priced Range

On 28 Sep 2026, ACI options priced a move of 15.3 percent down and 20.3 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	4.7%	4.5%	11.10 to 12.16
9 Oct 2026	11	7.6%	7.6%	10.76 to 12.52
16 Oct 2026	18	9.7%	9.5%	10.51 to 12.74
23 Oct 2026	25	20.2%	20.2%	9.29 to 13.99
30 Oct 2026	32	15.3%	20.3%	9.86 to 14.00
20 Nov 2026	53	18.3%	16.2%	9.51 to 13.52
16 Apr 2027	200	36.7%	34.5%	7.37 to 15.66

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 11.64, as the option prices imply it.

A priced move restates option prices at the close and says nothing certain about where the price goes.

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, ACI's call wall is the 15 strike and its put wall is the 12 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	15
Put wall, most open put gamma	12
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	11.51
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$539,712
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.24 million
Close	11.64

Dollar gamma is stated for a one percent move in the price.

Net is calls minus puts under the standard convention, not a record of who holds the contracts.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, ACI's at the money IV is 62.4 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 34.3 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	62.4%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	34.3%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	60.2%

Realized volatility is worked out from the daily closes the desk holds, not from the option chain.

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, ACI's at the money IV runs from 44.5 percent at 4 days to 47.7 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	44.5%
11	43.8%
18	40.3%
25	77.1%
32	62.4%
53	44.3%
109	42.9%
200	47.7%

Far expiries price more volatility than near ones, an upward sloping term structure.

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, ACI's surface spans 8 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 39.5 to 76.8 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	8
Nearest expiry	2 Oct 2026, 4 days
Farthest expiry	16 Apr 2027, 200 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	19
Lowest IV among them	39.5%
Highest IV among them	76.8%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, ACI has 8 captured expiries, from 2 Oct 2026 to 16 Apr 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
2 Oct 2026	4	44.5%	714	394
9 Oct 2026	11	43.8%	216	436
16 Oct 2026	18	40.3%	9,825	3,838
23 Oct 2026	25	77.1%	257	58
30 Oct 2026	32	62.4%	52	39
20 Nov 2026	53	44.3%	870	311
15 Jan 2027	109	42.9%	41,411	9,901
16 Apr 2027	200	47.7%	1,221	114

Open interest is summed over the strikes captured near the price on each expiry.

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, ACI's largest open interest sits at the 15 strike, with 31,155 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
15	30,342	813	31,155
13	8,377	5,101	13,478
12	6,118	4,380	10,498
14	2,118	1,131	3,249
20	3,150	0	3,150
11	559	1,809	2,368

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 6,612 ACI option contracts traded.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	4,426
Puts traded	2,186
Open interest, whole chain	82,559 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.08
Unusual volume flag	No

Traded volume and open interest are shown side by side and never combined. Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 10 trading days of ACI's option positioning, from 11 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
11 Aug 2026	12.25	$119,050	12	13
18 Aug 2026	12.21	minus $19,179	12	12
28 Sep 2026	11.64	$539,712	15	12

Each frame restates one nightly capture. Net is calls minus puts, a convention, not who holds the contracts.

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of ACI was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	12.27, the swing high of 2 Sep 2026
Level below the close	11.63, the swing low of 10 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
The chart	Sits against the view
Strategy family	Bull call spread (buy a call spread)
Price target	None. The desk has no price model.

The levels are prices the shares turned at on the chart, with the date of each.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Rank by Timeframe

On 25 Sep 2026 ACI sat at the 88th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	86 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	86 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	88 of 100	Bullish

100 is the top of the ranking. A name in the middle three fifths is neutral.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026, 3 of 3 timeframes put ACI on the bullish side, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Bullish	2 of 2
Long	45 day	Bullish	1 of 1

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 ACI had carried no signal for 1 trading day, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	88 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 9 of 50 Consumer Staples names were bullish and 22 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Consumer Staples	50	9	22	19

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Price Chart

ACI closed at 11.64 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	11.64
Change over 5 trading days	-4.0%
Change over 21 trading days	-4.8%
Change over 63 trading days	-13.6%
Change over 252 trading days	-33.3%
52 week high	20.00
52 week low	10.86
20 day moving average	12.22
50 day moving average	12.26
200 day moving average	15.49
RSI, 14 days	40

Worked out from the desk's own daily bars, adjusted for share splits.

From the daily bars through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Earnings Radar

ACI reports next on 13 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	13 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 23 Jul 2026	-21.6%
Move after the report of 14 Apr 2026	-3.0%
Move after the report of 7 Jan 2026	-6.0%
Move after the report of 14 Oct 2025	+13.6%

Earnings calendar as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Seasonality

In the 6 Septembers on record, ACI's average change was minus 3.5 percent, and it rose in 50.0 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-3.5%	-2.7%	50.0%	6
October	-0.0%	-0.6%	40.0%	5
November	+6.4%	+6.4%	100.0%	6

Each figure is a month end to month end change in past years. A past month says nothing certain about the next one.

Monthly history through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Questions

What is ACI's IV rank?: ACI's at the money implied volatility is 62.4 percent on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are ACI options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, ACI options priced a move of 15.3 percent down and 20.3 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are ACI's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, ACI's call wall is the 15 strike and its put wall is the 12 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of ACI on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of ACI was bullish, paper trading.
When does ACI report earnings next?: ACI reports next on 13 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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