What is VZ max pain this week?

VZ max pain for the nearest expiration (2026-10-09) is $47.00. Total call open interest: 17,505. Total put open interest: 8,451.

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 $45.92EOD only

Max Pain

$47.00

Next expiry Oct 9, 2026

Expected Move

±$1.35

2.9% from close

Price Gap

+1.08

Distance to max pain

IV Rank

Low premium

P/C OI

0.75

Slightly call-heavy

Consensus

4/4

Partial coverage

Published snapshot: Oct 2, 2026 close

End-of-day snapshot

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Published Snapshot

Oct 2, 2026 close

Max Pain — VZ

Data as of market close Oct 2, 2026

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Nearest listed expiration 2026-10-09 shows max pain at $47.00 (1.08 above spot). Use this page to evaluate pin-risk zones, strike pressure, and open-interest concentration before selecting trade structure.

Max Pain Strike

$47.00

Nearest expiry

Expected Move

±$1.35

±2.9%

Days to Expiry

Calendar days

Total Call OI

17,505

Nearest expiry

Total Put OI

8,451

Nearest expiry

P/C OI Ratio

0.48

Put-heavy

Spot Price

$45.92

Published close

Consensus

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Max Pain by Expiration

Pain by Strike

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Selected: 2026-10-09

Expiration	Max Pain Strike	Last Updated
2026-09-25	$47.00	9/25/2026, 11:31:07 PM
2026-10-02Updated	$46.50	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2026-10-09Next	$47.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2026-10-16	$46.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2026-10-23	$47.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2026-10-30	$47.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2026-11-06	$45.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2026-11-20	$48.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2026-12-18	$44.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2027-01-15	$45.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2027-03-19	$45.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2027-04-16	$45.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2027-06-17	$47.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM
2027-09-17	$45.00	10/2/2026, 11:32:02 PM

Selected expiration: 2026-10-09 at max pain $47.00.

VZ pain by strike for 2026-10-09 expiration
Strike	Call Pain	Put Pain	Total Pain
30	0	12773700	12773700
35	500	8548200	8548700
38	1100	6142200	6143300
40	1500	4538600	4540100
41	1700	3738600	3740300
42	2100	2988500	2990600
43	2500	2357300	2359800
44	3400	1738400	1741800
45	7900	1159100	1167000
45.5	15050	948550	963600
46	25400	755350	780750
46.5	78050	600100	678150
47	151450	469000	620450
47.5	274600	375100	649700
48	421800	284300	706100
48.5	613300	213750	827050
49	884150	143500	1027650
49.5	1184750	102000	1286750
50	1501850	61300	1563150
51	2546250	17700	2563950

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.