What is VZ max pain this week?

VZ max pain for the nearest expiration (2026-07-10) is $44.00. Total call open interest: 14,387. Total put open interest: 13,166.

What is max pain in options?

Max pain is the strike price where option holders (buyers of both puts and calls) would collectively lose the most money at expiration. It represents the point of maximum financial pain for option buyers, and theory suggests stock prices tend to gravitate toward max pain as expiration approaches.

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VZ

Verizon Communications Inc.Close $42.56EOD only

Max Pain

$44.00

Next expiry Jul 10, 2026

Expected Move

±$1.10

2.6% from close

Price Gap

+1.44

Distance to max pain

IV Rank

Middle-high premium

P/C OI

0.86

Slightly call-heavy

Consensus

4/4

Partial coverage

Published snapshot: Jul 2, 2026 close

End-of-day snapshot

This page reflects VZ options positioning from the latest published market-close snapshot. Intraday price and contract changes are not displayed.

Published Snapshot

Jul 2, 2026 close

Max Pain — VZ

Data as of market close Jul 2, 2026

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Nearest listed expiration 2026-07-10 shows max pain at $44.00 (1.44 above spot). Use this page to evaluate pin-risk zones, strike pressure, and open-interest concentration before selecting trade structure.

Max Pain Strike

$44.00

Nearest expiry

Expected Move

±$1.10

±2.6%

Days to Expiry

Calendar days

Total Call OI

14,387

Nearest expiry

Total Put OI

13,166

Nearest expiry

P/C OI Ratio

0.92

Put-heavy

Spot Price

$42.56

Published close

Consensus

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Max Pain by Expiration

Pain by Strike

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Selected: 2026-07-10

Expiration	Max Pain Strike	Last Updated
2026-06-26	$46.00	6/26/2026, 11:34:43 PM
2026-07-02	$42.50	7/2/2026, 11:37:10 PM
2026-07-10NextUpdated	$44.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-07-17	$46.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-07-24	$44.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-07-31	$43.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-08-07	$44.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-08-21	$43.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-09-18	$45.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-10-16	$45.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2026-12-18	$42.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2027-01-15	$42.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2027-03-19	$45.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM
2027-06-17	$47.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:32 PM

Selected expiration: 2026-07-10 at max pain $44.00.

VZ pain by strike for 2026-07-10 expiration
Strike	Call Pain	Put Pain	Total Pain
30	0	17449950	17449950
35	6000	10866950	10872950
36	9400	9550350	9559750
37	13000	8233750	8246750
38	19700	6917150	6936850
39	26800	5687150	5713950
40	37200	4457150	4494350
41	55600	3255450	3311050
42	95900	2118550	2214450
42.5	154700	1630000	1784700
43	213500	1169850	1383350
43.5	328400	854350	1182750
44	468400	585900	1054300
44.5	658850	439950	1098800
45	879750	303350	1183100
45.5	1202700	202950	1405650
46	1584050	110550	1694600
46.5	2007650	88600	2096250
47	2441700	67750	2509450
47.5	2905250	57900	2963150

How to Read Max Pain

Compare pin-risk and strike-pressure across expirations from the latest published close.

What max pain measures

Max pain is the strike where option holders would collectively lose the most at expiration, based on open interest across the listed chain.

How traders use it

It is most useful as a possible pinning zone, especially when spot is already trading near a crowded strike into expiration.

What can break it

Strong directional flows, news, or fast spot moves can overwhelm any pinning tendency, so max pain should support a thesis rather than drive it alone.

The closer you are to expiration, the more useful this becomes as context and the less useful it is as a standalone prediction.