Real Estate

Kimco Realty Corp (KIM) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

KIM is Kimco Realty Corp, a Real Estate 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	24 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	26.9%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	6.0% down, 6.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	25 and 22.5	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bullish	25 Sep
Last close	22.49	28 Sep
Next report	29 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

KIM's IV rank is 24 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	24 of 100
At the money IV	26.9%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.58
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	4,440 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	2,560 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 50.0% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among KIM'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, KIM options priced a move of 6.0 percent down and 6.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	6.0%	6.0%	21.15 to 23.83
20 Nov 2026	53	15.7%	15.7%	18.95 to 26.03
18 Dec 2026	81	12.8%	12.8%	19.62 to 25.36
15 Jan 2027	109	14.7%	14.7%	19.18 to 25.80
16 Apr 2027	200	19.8%	19.8%	18.04 to 26.94

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 22.49, 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, KIM's call wall is the 25 strike and its put wall is the 22.5 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	25
Put wall, most open put gamma	22.5
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	23.18
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$64,264
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$365,843
Close	22.49

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, KIM's at the money IV is 26.9 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 13.5 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	26.9%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	13.5%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	15.4%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	718, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	12.1% of 214 weeks

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

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

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, KIM's at the money IV runs from 26.9 percent at 18 days to 26.7 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	26.9%
53	41.3%
81	27.1%
109	26.9%
200	26.7%

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

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

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, KIM's IV ten percent below the price sits 13.6 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	54.9%	+13.6 points
At the money	41.3%	0.0 points
10% above the price	47.4%	+6.0 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, KIM's surface spans 5 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 26.7 to 41.3 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	5
Lowest IV among them	26.7%
Highest IV among them	41.3%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, KIM 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	26.9%	2,167	425
20 Nov 2026	53	41.3%	31	66
18 Dec 2026	81	27.1%	2,018	1,886
15 Jan 2027	109	26.9%	104	165
16 Apr 2027	200	26.7%	116	23

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, KIM's largest open interest sits at the 25 strike, with 3,168 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
25	3,061	107	3,168
22.5	555	819	1,374
17.5	2	1,107	1,109
20	376	532	908
30	442	0	442

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

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, KIM's at the money IV moved from 27.3 percent to 26.9 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	27.3%	26.9%	-0.3 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	6,584	7,001	+417
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.64	0.58	-0.06

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, 418 KIM option contracts traded, 1.1 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	337
Puts traded	81
Against its recent average	1.1 times
Busier than	5 of its last 11 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	7,303 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.06
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 12 trading days of KIM's option positioning, from 11 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
11 Sep 2026	23.19	$21,956	25	25
21 Sep 2026	22.54	$68,286	25	22.5
28 Sep 2026	22.49	$64,264	25	22.5

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 KIM was bullish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bullish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	22.63, the swing high of 22 Sep 2026
Level below the close	22.38, the swing low of 16 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 KIM sat at the 97th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	11 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	9 of 100	Bearish
45 trading days	97 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, 1 of 3 timeframes put KIM on the bullish side, paper trading.

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

The near timeframes and the long ones were on opposite sides, and the desk states both.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 KIM had carried no signal for at least 12 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	97 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	97 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	96 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	98 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	88 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	92 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	86 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	90 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 11 of 41 Real Estate names were bullish and 17 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Real Estate	41	11	17	13

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Price Chart

KIM closed at 22.49 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	22.49
Change over 5 trading days	-0.2%
Change over 21 trading days	-5.5%
Change over 63 trading days	-12.9%
Change over 252 trading days	+4.7%
52 week high	26.65
52 week low	19.76
20 day moving average	23.08
50 day moving average	24.15
200 day moving average	23.23
RSI, 14 days	31

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

KIM reports next on 29 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	29 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 29 Jul 2026	-1.9%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-1.1%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	+1.1%
Move after the report of 1 May 2025	+4.8%

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

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 60.7 percent of KIM's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	60.7%
Five day average	56.1%
52 week median	54.1%

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, KIM's average change was minus 1.1 percent, and it rose in 34.8 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.1%	-0.5%	34.8%	23
October	+0.3%	+2.0%	56.5%	23
November	+0.8%	+0.3%	52.2%	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 KIM's IV rank?: KIM's IV rank is 24 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are KIM options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, KIM options priced a move of 6.0 percent down and 6.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are KIM's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, KIM's call wall is the 25 strike and its put wall is the 22.5 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of KIM on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of KIM was bullish, paper trading.
When does KIM report earnings next?: KIM reports next on 29 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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