Highest covered call premiums
Across the 60 tickers tracked here, the richest in-band covered call at the August 3, 2026 snapshot was the MU $900.00 strike expiring August 10: $1,858 a contract, 117.0% annualized, with roughly 80% odds of keeping the premium. High yield is not the same as a good trade, which is most of what this page is about.
| Ticker | Price | Strike | Expiry | Premium | Annualized | Keep odds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUMicron Technology | $827.87 | $900.00 | August 10 7d | $1,858 | 117.0% | 80% |
| AMDAdvanced Micro Devices | $486.13 | $532.50 | August 10 7d | $1,045 | 112.1% | 80% |
| INTCIntel Corporation | $90.81 | $98.00 | August 10 7d | $166 | 95.3% | 80% |
| QCOMQualcomm Inc. | $149.80 | $157.50 | August 14 11d | $335 | 74.2% | 79% |
| AVGOBroadcom Inc. | $387.99 | $402.50 | August 10 7d | $495 | 66.5% | 79% |
| NVDANVIDIA Corporation | $206.30 | $212.50 | August 10 7d | $210 | 53.1% | 82% |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | $125.43 | $147.00 | August 14 11d | $177 | 46.8% | 80% |
| TSLATesla Inc. | $323.65 | $342.50 | August 10 7d | $258 | 41.5% | 81% |
| AMZNAmazon.com Inc. | $285.94 | $295.00 | August 10 7d | $218 | 39.8% | 77% |
| ABNBAirbnb Inc. | $151.63 | $165.00 | August 14 11d | $182 | 39.7% | 80% |
| CATCaterpillar Inc. | $822.03 | $910.00 | August 14 11d | $938 | 37.8% | 80% |
| UBERUber Technologies | $71.63 | $78.00 | August 14 11d | $82 | 37.8% | 80% |
| FCXFreeport-McMoRan | $63.13 | $69.00 | August 14 11d | $65 | 33.9% | 79% |
| LLYEli Lilly and Company | $1,117 | $1,230 | August 14 11d | $1,090 | 32.4% | 80% |
| ORCLOracle Corporation | $136.41 | $157.50 | August 14 11d | $131 | 31.7% | 82% |
| OXYOccidental Petroleum | $55.89 | $60.00 | August 14 11d | $53 | 31.5% | 80% |
| SOFISoFi Technologies | $17.45 | $19.00 | August 14 11d | $16 | 29.5% | 83% |
| METAMeta Platforms | $588.07 | $622.50 | August 10 7d | $318 | 28.1% | 80% |
| DISThe Walt Disney Company | $97.84 | $106.00 | August 14 11d | $83 | 28.1% | 81% |
| IBMInternational Business Machines | $225.74 | $242.50 | August 14 11d | $183 | 26.9% | 81% |
| MRKMerck and Co. | $127.40 | $136.00 | August 14 11d | $98 | 25.5% | 80% |
| GOOGLAlphabet Inc. Class A | $368.87 | $385.00 | August 10 7d | $180 | 25.4% | 77% |
| XOMExxon Mobil | $155.49 | $162.50 | August 14 11d | $112 | 23.9% | 78% |
| NKENike Inc. | $42.26 | $45.00 | August 14 11d | $30 | 23.6% | 81% |
| WMTWalmart Inc. | $110.64 | $115.00 | August 14 11d | $73 | 21.9% | 78% |
What this list is sorted by, exactly
One row per ticker: its best annualized yield among out-of-the-money call strikes inside the target delta band that passed a liquidity screen. Annualized yield is period yield times 365 divided by days to expiry. Nothing else feeds the ordering. No confidence score, no quality weighting, no editorial thumb.
Which produces a bias worth naming, because it is arithmetic rather than opinion: the nearest expiry usually wins. Dividing by a small number of days makes a modest premium annualize enormously, so a 7-day contract paying 1.5% shows up ahead of a 45-day one paying 4%. The expiry column is right there for that reason. Compare the premium and the days first, and treat the last column as the tiebreaker it is.
Why the top of this list is usually a warning
Premium is compensation for risk, and the market is not sentimental about it. A name paying 60% annualized is not generous, it is scared. Something is expected to happen to it, and you are being paid to promise you will be there when it does. Sort any option chain by yield and the top is reliably populated by earnings next week, a pending trial result, a stock that has already fallen 30%, or a bid-ask spread so wide the quoted mid is not a real price.
Which is why the app does not rank this way. It scores every candidate against a fixed bar and shows an empty screen when nothing clears, and on this exact snapshot nothing did. This page ranks by yield because that is the question people search for. It is not the question that decides a trade.