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Free Options Break-Even Calculator

Stock price needed to break even on a call or put.

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Result

Break-even stock price

$104.00

Total premium paid$400.00
Max loss (if expires worthless)$400.00

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Short answer

Stock price needed to break even on a call or put.

What is the Options Break-Even Calculator?

Stock price needed to break even on a call or put.

How does the Options Break-Even Calculator work?

Enter the inputs above and read the result.

Formula

Call BE = Strike + Premium; Put BE = Strike − Premium

Variables

  • StrikeOption strike price

Explanation

The buyer of an option needs the stock to move past breakeven to profit at expiration.

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            Related concepts

            The Options Break-Even Calculator sits inside the Finance Calculators hub, in the investing & retirement cluster. Growing capital and planning for withdrawal. Understanding the terms below makes the output easier to interpret and easier to compare against neighbouring measures.

            compound growthasset allocationwithdrawal rateyielddividend reinvestmentrisk-adjusted return

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            Understanding Options Break-Even

            Stock price needed to break even on a call or put. Within finance calculators, options break-even belongs to the investing & retirement cluster, where it shares terminology and assumptions with closely related tools.

            Learning how options break-even is calculated

            The buyer of an option needs the stock to move past breakeven to profit at expiration. Working through the variables one at a time — Strike — makes the result reproducible by hand and easier to sanity-check.

            Using options break-even to make a decision

            Because outputs depend on the assumptions you enter, run more than one scenario before committing to a figure.

            How options break-even compares with related measures

            compound growth, asset allocation, withdrawal rate, yield all describe adjacent aspects of investing & retirement. Comparing this calculator's output against those measures — using the related tools listed on this page — prevents a single metric from being read in isolation.

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