Information Technology

Viasat, Inc. (VSAT) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

VSAT is Viasat, Inc., an Information Technology 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	77 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	65.0%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	14.0% down, 14.8% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	105 and 60	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	71.65	28 Sep
Next report	5 Nov 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

VSAT's IV rank is 77 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	77 of 100
At the money IV	65.0%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.53
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	79,800 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	41,900 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 42.8% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among VSAT'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, VSAT options priced a move of 14.0 percent down and 14.8 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	14.0%	14.8%	61.65 to 82.25
20 Nov 2026	53	28.2%	30.1%	51.45 to 93.25
18 Dec 2026	81	35.6%	38.2%	46.15 to 99.05
15 Jan 2027	109	39.4%	43.8%	43.45 to 103.05
19 Mar 2027	172	55.4%	54.4%	31.95 to 110.65

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 71.65, 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, VSAT's call wall is the 105 strike and its put wall is the 60 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	105
Put wall, most open put gamma	60
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	74.27
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$1.69 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$7.25 million
Close	71.65

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, VSAT's at the money IV is 65.0 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 49.2 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	65.0%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	49.2%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	61.5%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	837, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	29.2% 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, VSAT's at the money IV runs from 65.0 percent at 18 days to 80.6 percent at 172 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	65.0%
53	77.5%
81	77.4%
109	76.2%
172	80.6%

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

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, VSAT's IV ten percent below the price sits 6.6 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	70.9%	-6.6 points
At the money	77.5%	0.0 points
10% above the price	78.6%	+1.1 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, VSAT's surface spans 5 expiries out to 172 days, with IV from 63.8 to 81.3 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	5
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	19 Mar 2027, 172 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	15
Lowest IV among them	63.8%
Highest IV among them	81.3%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, VSAT has 5 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 19 Mar 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	65.0%	2,203	4,041
20 Nov 2026	53	77.5%	229	161
18 Dec 2026	81	77.4%	19,470	1,162
15 Jan 2027	109	76.2%	57,115	34,411
19 Mar 2027	172	80.6%	750	2,094

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

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, VSAT's largest open interest sits at the 60 strike, with 34,439 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
60	262	34,177	34,439
105	30,884	77	30,961
110	9,665	115	9,780
80	7,809	281	8,090
85	5,646	2,265	7,911
90	7,785	67	7,852

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, VSAT's at the money IV moved from 62.4 percent to 65.0 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	62.4%	65.0%	+2.7 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	121,370	121,636	+266
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.52	0.52	+0.00

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 3,131 VSAT option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	2,240
Puts traded	891
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	11 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	126,314 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.02
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 VSAT'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	84.52	$9.86 million	95	80
21 Sep 2026	76.38	$1.2 million	80	85
28 Sep 2026	71.65	$1.69 million	105	60

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 VSAT was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	78.30, the swing high of 21 Sep 2026
Level below the close	70.37, the swing low of 10 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 VSAT sat at the 53rd percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	86 of 100	Bullish
20 trading days	59 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	53 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 VSAT'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 VSAT had carried no signal for 3 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	53 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	27 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	7 of 100
22 Sep 2026	Bearish	5 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	7 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	31 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	36 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	15 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 80 of 187 Information Technology names were bullish and 61 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Information Technology	187	80	61	46

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Price Chart

VSAT closed at 71.65 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	71.65
Change over 5 trading days	-6.2%
Change over 21 trading days	-1.5%
Change over 63 trading days	-6.6%
Change over 252 trading days	+148.8%
52 week high	93.03
52 week low	26.10
20 day moving average	72.76
50 day moving average	75.30
200 day moving average	60.18
RSI, 14 days	45

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

VSAT reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	5 Nov 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 4 Aug 2026	-6.0%
Move after the report of 30 Apr 2026	-1.2%
Move after the report of 28 Jan 2026	-2.8%
Move after the report of 20 May 2025	-4.9%

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

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, VSAT's average change was minus 2.9 percent, and it rose in 43.5 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-2.9%	-0.5%	43.5%	23
October	+4.0%	+1.2%	56.5%	23
November	+1.9%	+5.2%	65.2%	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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Headlines

The desk's news feeds carried 1 headline naming VSAT 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.

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Questions

What is VSAT's IV rank?: VSAT's IV rank is 77 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are VSAT options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, VSAT options priced a move of 14.0 percent down and 14.8 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are VSAT's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, VSAT's call wall is the 105 strike and its put wall is the 60 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of VSAT on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of VSAT was neutral, paper trading.
When does VSAT report earnings next?: VSAT reports next on 5 Nov 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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