Saturday, January 31, 2026

January 30th, 2026 Options Expiration Results

The Covered Calls Advisor Portfolio had four Covered Calls positions with January 30th, 2026 options expiration dates.  Three positions (Amazon.com Inc., Dexcom Inc., and NVIDIA Corporation), closed in-the-money so their Calls expired and the shares were called away (i.e. sold) at their respective strike prices.  One position in Palo Alto Networks Inc. closed out-of-the-money so its Call option expired and the shares remain in the Covered Calls Advisor Portfolio.  A summary of results for each of these positions (in alphabetical order) is as follows:

1. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) -- +1.4% absolute return (equivalent to +52.7% annualized return-on-investment) for the 10 days of this investment.  This Covered Call position was assigned at the $225.00 strike price since the stock closed in-the-money at $239.30 per share.  The original blog post detailing this Covered Call position is here

2. Dexcom Inc. (DXCM) -- +1.8% absolute return (equivalent to +40.2% annualized return-on-investment) for the 16 days of this investment.  This Covered Calls position was assigned at the $66.00 strike price since the stock closed in-the-money at $73.04 per share.  The original blog post detailing this Covered Calls position is here.    

3. NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) -- +6.8% absolute return (equivalent to +77.5% annualized return-on-investment) for the 32 days of this investment.  This Covered Call position was assigned at the $187.50 strike price since the stock closed in-the-money at $191.13 per share.  The most recent blog post detailing this Covered Call position is here.    

4. Palo Alto Networks Inc. (PANW) -- This Covered Call position closed yesterday at $176.97 which was well below its $185.00 strike price, so the one Call option expired and 100 Palo Alto Network shares now remain in the Covered Calls Advisor Portfolio.  The original blog post detailing this position is here.  Early in this upcoming week I will decide to either continue this Covered Call position by selling a Call option against the 100 Palo Alto shares currently held or close out the position by selling these shares. 

I welcome your feedback or questions at my email address shown below on anything related to the Covered Calls investing strategy.

Jeff Partlow
The Covered Calls Advisor
partlow@cox.net