Communication Services

Pinterest, Inc. (PINS) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

PINS is Pinterest, Inc., 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	49 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	52.0%	28 Sep
Priced move to 30 Oct	14.9% down, 15.5% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	20 and 18	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	18.41	28 Sep
Next report	9 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

PINS's IV rank is 49 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	49 of 100
At the money IV	52.0%, near month, 32 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.90
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	83,300 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	75,300 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Fair, 27.1% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among PINS'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, PINS options priced a move of 14.9 percent down and 15.5 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
2 Oct 2026	4	6.0%	5.3%	17.30 to 19.39
9 Oct 2026	11	10.6%	8.3%	16.46 to 19.94
23 Oct 2026	25	14.3%	13.3%	15.78 to 20.86
30 Oct 2026	32	14.9%	15.5%	15.66 to 21.26
20 Nov 2026	53	22.1%	23.1%	14.34 to 22.67
18 Dec 2026	81	26.0%	27.2%	13.62 to 23.42
19 Feb 2027	144	33.1%	36.6%	12.32 to 25.15

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 18.41, 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, PINS's call wall is the 20 strike and its put wall is the 18 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	20
Put wall, most open put gamma	18
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $113,425
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$4.1 million
Close	18.41

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.

Net gamma changes sign at 3 strikes, so no single flip strike is named.

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, PINS's at the money IV is 52.0 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 54.9 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	52.0%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	54.9%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	47.7%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	361, from 17 May 2019
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	24.6% of 236 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, PINS's at the money IV runs from 52.9 percent at 4 days to 58.2 percent at 144 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
4	52.9%
11	50.4%
18	51.8%
25	49.6%
39	53.8%
53	60.1%
81	56.4%
144	58.2%

Far expiries price more volatility than near ones, an upward sloping 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 32 day expiry, PINS's IV ten percent below the price sits 16.2 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	68.3%	+16.2 points
At the money	52.0%	0.0 points
10% above the price	54.3%	+2.2 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, PINS's surface spans 10 expiries out to 144 days, with IV from 47.8 to 62.0 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	10
Nearest expiry	2 Oct 2026, 4 days
Farthest expiry	19 Feb 2027, 144 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	48
Lowest IV among them	47.8%
Highest IV among them	62.0%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, PINS has 10 captured expiries, from 2 Oct 2026 to 19 Feb 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
2 Oct 2026	4	52.9%	6,463	2,069
9 Oct 2026	11	50.4%	2,278	1,235
16 Oct 2026	18	51.8%	10,913	9,759
23 Oct 2026	25	49.6%	954	760
30 Oct 2026	32	52.0%	517	978
6 Nov 2026	39	53.8%	231	407
20 Nov 2026	53	60.1%	14,770	10,612
18 Dec 2026	81	56.4%	17,906	18,413
15 Jan 2027	109	53.5%	26,468	27,927
19 Feb 2027	144	58.2%	2,829	3,097

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, PINS's largest open interest sits at the 18 strike, with 19,084 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
18	3,151	15,933	19,084
20	13,620	4,940	18,560
15	896	13,822	14,718
25	7,478	5,889	13,367
23	4,711	4,070	8,781
27	6,785	1,648	8,433

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, PINS's at the money IV moved from 47.9 percent to 52.0 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	47.9%	52.0%	+4.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	193,226	158,586	-34,640
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.08	0.90	-0.18

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, 14,059 PINS option contracts traded, 0.8 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	7,213
Puts traded	6,846
Against its recent average	0.8 times
Busier than	8 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	207,513 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.07
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 1 contract traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 18 put expiring 17 Sep, 1,283 traded against 126 open

Traded volume and open interest are shown side by side and never combined. 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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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 33 trading days of PINS'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	23.75	$1.54 million	25	23
21 Sep 2026	19.36	$703,690	19.5	18
28 Sep 2026	18.41	minus $113,425	20	18

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 PINS was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	19.70, the swing high of 14 Sep 2026
Level below the close	18.20, the swing low of 17 Sep 2026
Strategy family	Long straddle (buy a call and a put at the same strike)
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 PINS sat at the 47th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	19 of 100	Bearish
20 trading days	20 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	47 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 PINS's near timeframes were bearish and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

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

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 PINS had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	47 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	64 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	87 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	72 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	79 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	51 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	61 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	66 of 100

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

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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

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

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Price Chart

PINS closed at 18.41 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	18.41
Change over 5 trading days	-4.9%
Change over 21 trading days	-19.5%
Change over 63 trading days	-15.9%
Change over 252 trading days	-45.0%
52 week high	35.42
52 week low	13.84
20 day moving average	19.40
50 day moving average	21.84
200 day moving average	21.38
RSI, 14 days	37

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

PINS reports next on 9 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	9 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 4 Aug 2026	-8.7%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	+2.9%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	-0.9%
Move after the report of 8 May 2025	+4.9%

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

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Public Filings

Company insiders reported 0 purchases and 2 sales of PINS in the filings the desk holds.

Filed	Who	Trade	Size
24 Sep 2026	Brau Donnelly Julia, Chief Financial Officer	Sold	29,548 shares, $549,841
23 Sep 2026	Walcott Wanjiku Juanita, Chief Legal & Bus Affairs Ofc.	Sold	14,103 shares, $256,773

Every filing is reproduced as filed, and each one reaches the public days or weeks after the trade.

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

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Seasonality

In the 7 Septembers on record, PINS's average change was minus 4.3 percent, and it rose in 42.9 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-4.3%	-1.7%	42.9%	7
October	+6.0%	+2.9%	57.1%	7
November	-3.2%	-4.6%	42.9%	7

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 3 headlines naming PINS in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	3
Latest	28 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 PINS's IV rank?: PINS's IV rank is 49 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are PINS options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, PINS options priced a move of 14.9 percent down and 15.5 percent up by 30 Oct 2026.
Where are PINS's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, PINS's call wall is the 20 strike and its put wall is the 18 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of PINS on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of PINS was neutral, paper trading.
When does PINS report earnings next?: PINS reports next on 9 Nov 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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