Top 20 High IV Watchlist

Options traders are paying an annualized short-term IV of 306% to hold FedEx through its earnings release in 10 days, a reading that has pushed IV Rank to a perfect 100, the highest level in the stock's own history. The 30-day market is pricing in a ±87.9% expected move, an extraordinary figure for a large-cap logistics name that reflects genuine uncertainty around the quarter. Barclays maintained Overweight but trimmed its price target to $425, signaling the analyst community is recalibrating expectations even before the release.

Something quiet is happening in Hayward Holdings: no headline catalyst, no earnings on the immediate horizon, yet short-term IV has reached 191.7% and IV Rank sits at a perfect 100. The options market is pricing in a ±55% move over the next 30 days on a pool equipment manufacturer, which is either a data anomaly worth investigating or a sign that someone in the tape knows something the headlines don't.

ACM Research sits at an IV Rank of just 31 with a 30-day IV near 101%, meaning premium is elevated in absolute terms but unremarkable relative to this stock's own volatile history. For a China-exposed semiconductor equipment name, that baseline level of optionality is the story itself: traders have simply priced chronic geopolitical and export-control risk into the fabric of this ticker.

Micron reports earnings in 11 days, and Wolfe Research just raised its price target to $1,250, citing what it calls a massive memory supply deficit running through 2027, a macro tailwind that has traders repricing the upside case. At an IV Rank of 55, premiums are middling relative to history, but the 30-day expected move of ±29.9% reflects real event risk baked into near-term contracts.

A 3.9% single-session gain in SolarEdge is drawing attention, but the IV Rank of just 20 tells the more honest story: options are cheap relative to this stock's own turbulent history, even with 30-day IV near 98%. For a solar name that has seen multi-year drawdowns and violent reversals, the current premium environment is historically subdued.

DigitalOcean slipped 2.6% on the session with no visible catalyst, and IV Rank at 35 places current premiums in the lower half of the stock's historical range despite a 30-day IV near 97%. The absence of a clear driver for either the price move or the elevated absolute volatility is itself the data point: this is a mid-cap cloud name trading with persistent uncertainty baked in.

A stock that has rallied over 5,000% since its 2025 Western Digital spinoff just added another 5.4% session, and Bank of America reiterated Buy with a price target of $2,100, keeping the momentum narrative alive. At an IV Rank of only 27, the options market is treating this as a stock where extreme moves have become the norm, compressing rank even as absolute IV stays above 100%.

An 8.7% single-session surge in Amkor Technology has pushed IV Rank to 79, placing current premiums in the upper quartile of the stock's own history and making near-term options materially more expensive than they were 24 hours ago. The move appears tied to broad semiconductor packaging enthusiasm rather than a company-specific headline, which means the premium expansion could be just as quickly reversed if the sector tone shifts.

Jabil reports earnings in four days, and the options market has responded by pushing IV Rank to a perfect 100, the most expensive premiums this stock has seen relative to its own history. The gap between short-term IV at 102% and 30-day IV at 69% is a clean signature of event-driven premium compression waiting to happen the moment the earnings release clears.

EchoStar dropped 10.9% in a single session as SpaceX's record-breaking IPO triggered a broad sell-off across satellite and space-adjacent names, with traders repricing competitive risk in real time. At an IV Rank of just 20, the options market had not pre-positioned for this kind of move, which means the volatility spike is reactive rather than anticipated.

Coherent gained 5.9% on a day when SpaceX's IPO reshuffled capital flows across the photonics and optical networking space, pulling the stock higher alongside other AI infrastructure adjacencies. Despite that move, IV Rank sits at only 21, a reminder that this stock has historically traded with far more violent swings than today's session delivered.

Lumentum added 3.5% with no company-specific news, likely carried by the same optical networking and AI infrastructure tailwind that lifted peers on the session. At an IV Rank of 29 and 30-day IV near 94%, premiums are elevated in absolute terms but sit in the lower third of this stock's historical range, reflecting how accustomed the market has become to wide daily swings here.

A 6.5% session for Intel lands at an IV Rank of 47, squarely mid-range for a stock that has spent years repricing its competitive position in real time. The SpaceX IPO day reshuffled semiconductor flows broadly, but Intel's move carries its own weight given ongoing uncertainty around its foundry strategy and whether any partnership or restructuring news is approaching.

Super Micro Computer fell 4.7% while simultaneously announcing plans to offer 7% Series A mandatory convertible preferred shares, a dilutive structure that options traders tend to treat as an overhang on near-term upside. At an IV Rank of 48 with 30-day IV near 88%, the market is pricing in continued turbulence without yet reaching the extreme fear levels this stock has seen in prior stress episodes.

CleanSpark carries one of the highest short interest profiles in the market right now, according to recent data, and that structural tension between short sellers and a stock with 30-day IV near 92% creates a persistently charged options environment. At an IV Rank of just 14, though, the current premium level is historically cheap for a bitcoin miner, which says more about how extreme this stock's past volatility has been than about any calm in the present.

Viavi Solutions jumped 6.3% with no news attached, a move large enough to matter but with no data trail explaining it, which is the kind of tape action that keeps options traders cautious about selling premium into the quiet. IV Rank at 13 means the market is not pricing in sustained elevated volatility despite the session's move, leaving a gap between what just happened and what the options curve expects next.

Enphase Energy barely moved on the session, down just 0.7%, yet 30-day IV sits near 86% and the stock is pricing in a ±26.3% move over the next month with no obvious catalyst on the calendar. For a solar name that has been caught between rate sensitivity, policy uncertainty, and demand questions, that level of ambient premium reflects how much unresolved macro risk the market is embedding in the name.

Teradyne gained 5.8% after being added to the Nasdaq-100 in the June 2026 rebalance, a mechanical event that forces index funds to buy shares and tends to compress near-term volatility even as it lifts price. At an IV Rank of 50 and IV Percentile of 83, premiums are running hotter than usual for a stock whose near-term price action is partly being driven by passive flows rather than fundamental repricing.

Accenture reports earnings in five days, and with IV Rank at a perfect 100, the options market is treating this as the most expensive premium environment in the stock's recorded history. The short-term IV of 85.3% against a 30-day IV of 58.6% shows the term structure is sharply inverted around the event, a classic earnings-week signature on a large-cap name where any guidance commentary on AI consulting demand will move the stock.

Hims & Hers fell 7.1% as the stock gave back recent repair-rally gains following a CMO appointment that the market apparently read as insufficient to sustain momentum. At an IV Rank of just 10, options are historically cheap despite the sharp move, which reflects how normalized large daily swings have become in a stock that trades on regulatory headlines, competitive threats, and sentiment in roughly equal measure.