Industrials

Jacobs Solutions Inc (J) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

J is Jacobs Solutions Inc, an Industrials 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
IV rank	92 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	36.3%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	7.6% down, 8.1% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	145 and 140	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	138.37	28 Sep
Next report	19 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

J's IV rank is 92 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	92 of 100
At the money IV	36.3%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.24
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	3,820 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	908 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 67.1% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among J's own weekly readings, 0 the lowest and 100 the highest.

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, J options priced a move of 7.6 percent down and 8.1 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	7.6%	8.1%	127.87 to 149.57
20 Nov 2026	53	14.4%	13.7%	118.47 to 157.27
18 Dec 2026	81	17.9%	17.0%	113.67 to 161.87
15 Jan 2027	109	18.3%	19.4%	113.07 to 165.17
16 Apr 2027	200	26.2%	26.2%	102.17 to 174.57

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 138.37, as the option prices imply it.

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

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

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, J's call wall is the 145 strike and its put wall is the 140 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	145
Put wall, most open put gamma	140
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	120.58
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$775,923
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$1.38 million
Close	138.37

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.

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

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, J's at the money IV is 36.3 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 22.9 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	36.3%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	22.9%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	25.0%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	342, from 17 Jan 2020
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	22.6% of 252 weeks

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, J's at the money IV runs from 36.3 percent at 18 days to 35.4 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	36.3%
53	37.1%
81	37.5%
109	33.8%
200	35.4%

Near and far expiries price about the same volatility, a flat term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, J's IV ten percent below the price sits 8.5 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	45.6%	+8.5 points
At the money	37.1%	0.0 points
10% above the price	38.9%	+1.8 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, J's surface spans 5 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 29.4 to 43.7 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	5
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	16 Apr 2027, 200 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	27
Lowest IV among them	29.4%
Highest IV among them	43.7%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, J has 5 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 16 Apr 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	36.3%	895	220
20 Nov 2026	53	37.1%	265	15
18 Dec 2026	81	37.5%	1,147	118
15 Jan 2027	109	33.8%	1,421	489
16 Apr 2027	200	35.4%	93	66

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, J's largest open interest sits at the 175 strike, with 1,053 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
175	1,051	2	1,053
145	510	215	725
140	347	362	709
160	632	0	632
150	283	52	335
135	156	52	208

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, J's at the money IV moved from 36.4 percent to 36.3 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	36.4%	36.3%	-0.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	4,438	4,729	+291
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.26	0.24	-0.02

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 658 J option contracts traded, 1.2 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	524
Puts traded	134
Against its recent average	1.2 times
Busier than	17 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	4,917 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.13
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 26 trading days of J's option positioning, from 21 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
21 Aug 2026	150.08	$716,305	175	140
21 Sep 2026	143.76	$486,449	145	140
28 Sep 2026	138.37	$775,923	145	140

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

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

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of J was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	140.17, the swing high of 10 Sep 2026
Level below the close	122.34, the swing low of 30 Jun 2026
Strategy family	Iron condor (sell both sides, defined risk)
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 J sat at the 63rd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	75 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	88 of 100	Bullish
45 trading days	63 of 100	Neutral

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

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026 J's near timeframes were bullish and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Bullish	1 of 2
Long	45 day	Neutral	0 of 1

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 J had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	63 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	34 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	23 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	37 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	48 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	34 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	64 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	66 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 51 of 147 Industrials names were bullish and 37 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Industrials	147	51	37	59

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Price Chart

J closed at 138.37 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	138.37
Change over 5 trading days	-3.7%
Change over 21 trading days	-8.1%
Change over 63 trading days	+11.8%
Change over 252 trading days	-5.4%
52 week high	168.44
52 week low	105.68
20 day moving average	143.24
50 day moving average	142.66
200 day moving average	133.08
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

J reports next on 19 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	19 Nov 2026
Date	Worked out from past quarters

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

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Company Events

J filed 1 current report in the 14 days to 28 Sep 2026, the latest on 23 Sep 2026.

Filed	Report	What it covers
23 Sep 2026	Current report, amended	Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

Filings as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 63.0 percent of J's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	63.0%
Five day average	52.1%
52 week median	56.1%

Short sale volume counts trades marked short at the covered venues, mostly off exchange. It is not the same as short interest.

Short volume as of 25 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, J's average change was minus 1.2 percent, and it rose in 52.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.2%	+1.2%	52.2%	23
October	+1.2%	+2.3%	56.5%	23
November	+3.1%	+1.5%	56.5%	23

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 J's IV rank?: J's IV rank is 92 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are J options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, J options priced a move of 7.6 percent down and 8.1 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are J's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, J's call wall is the 145 strike and its put wall is the 140 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of J on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of J was neutral, paper trading.
When does J report earnings next?: J reports next on 19 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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