Communication Services

The New York Times Company (NYT) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

NYT is The New York Times Company, a Communication Services 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	75 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	40.1%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	9.1% down, 8.9% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	72.5 and 65	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	64.17	28 Sep
Next report	4 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

NYT's IV rank is 75 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	75 of 100
At the money IV	40.1%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.59
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	19,700 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	31,400 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 49.4% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among NYT'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, NYT options priced a move of 9.1 percent down and 8.9 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	9.1%	8.9%	58.34 to 69.90
20 Nov 2026	53	18.9%	15.5%	52.07 to 74.11
18 Dec 2026	81	21.0%	20.3%	50.67 to 77.17
15 Jan 2027	109	20.3%	20.1%	51.17 to 77.07
16 Apr 2027	200	28.7%	28.8%	45.77 to 82.67

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 64.17, 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, NYT's call wall is the 72.5 strike and its put wall is the 65 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	72.5
Put wall, most open put gamma	65
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	71.05
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $4.8 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$9.67 million
Close	64.17

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, NYT's at the money IV is 40.1 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 43.3 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	40.1%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	43.3%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	44.4%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	802, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	23.7% of 228 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, NYT's at the money IV runs from 40.1 percent at 18 days to 38.8 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	40.1%
53	41.8%
81	42.9%
109	36.7%
200	38.8%

Near expiries price more volatility than far ones, an inverted term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, NYT's IV ten percent below the price sits 7.6 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	49.4%	+7.6 points
At the money	41.8%	0.0 points
10% above the price	41.1%	-0.6 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, NYT's surface spans 5 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 36.0 to 49.4 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	22
Lowest IV among them	36.0%
Highest IV among them	49.4%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, NYT 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	40.1%	13,897	21,941
20 Nov 2026	53	41.8%	4,205	7,899
18 Dec 2026	81	42.9%	1,103	825
15 Jan 2027	109	36.7%	486	643
16 Apr 2027	200	38.8%	55	71

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, NYT's largest open interest sits at the 65 strike, with 13,148 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
65	1,795	11,353	13,148
62.5	1,535	11,400	12,935
67.5	2,130	4,497	6,627
72.5	5,008	31	5,039
77.5	4,645	6	4,651
70	795	3,485	4,280

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, NYT's at the money IV moved from 40.4 percent to 40.1 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	40.4%	40.1%	-0.4 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	51,392	51,125	-267
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.61	1.59	-0.02

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 6,870 NYT option contracts traded, 0.9 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	3,500
Puts traded	3,370
Against its recent average	0.9 times
Busier than	16 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	51,649 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 33 trading days of NYT'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	63.73	minus $226,255	67.5	65
21 Sep 2026	70.53	minus $2.26 million	72.5	65
28 Sep 2026	64.17	minus $4.8 million	72.5	65

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 NYT was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	65.73, the swing high of 9 Sep 2026
Level below the close	61.80, the swing low of 23 Sep 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 NYT sat at the 62nd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	27 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	58 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	62 of 100	Neutral

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 NYT's near timeframes were neutral and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

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

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 NYT had carried no signal for 3 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	62 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	64 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	84 of 100
22 Sep 2026	Bullish	91 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	68 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	59 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	58 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	66 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 10 of 37 Communication Services names were bullish and 12 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Communication Services	37	10	12	15

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Price Chart

NYT closed at 64.17 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	64.17
Change over 5 trading days	-9.0%
Change over 21 trading days	-5.8%
Change over 63 trading days	-9.2%
Change over 252 trading days	+11.0%
52 week high	87.10
52 week low	54.10
20 day moving average	67.43
50 day moving average	68.47
200 day moving average	73.75
RSI, 14 days	41

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

NYT reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	4 Nov 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 29 Jul 2026	-2.4%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-0.4%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	+1.0%
Move after the report of 7 May 2025	-0.0%

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

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, NYT's average change was minus 1.9 percent, and it rose in 34.8 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.9%	-2.5%	34.8%	23
October	+1.7%	+0.3%	52.2%	23
November	+2.4%	+0.9%	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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Headlines

The desk's news feeds carried 1 headline naming NYT in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	1
Latest	26 Sep 2026

The titles are in the Headlines window, with the time each was published.

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

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Questions

What is NYT's IV rank?: NYT's IV rank is 75 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are NYT options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, NYT options priced a move of 9.1 percent down and 8.9 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are NYT's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, NYT's call wall is the 72.5 strike and its put wall is the 65 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of NYT on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of NYT was neutral, paper trading.
When does NYT report earnings next?: NYT reports next on 4 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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