Covered calls on AVGO
Broadcom Inc. was trading at $341.90 when this page was last refreshed on September 16, 2026. 33 out-of-the-money AVGO calls sat in the 0.15 to 0.25 delta band that covered call writers work in, paying $121 to $285 a contract. 33 of them came back scored, and the app would have ranked those and shown you the top few.
Numbers on this page come from a snapshot taken on September 16, 2026. They are not live quotes and are not refreshed when you load the page.
| Expiry | Strike | Bid / ask | Premium | Annualized | Keep odds | Break-even | OI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 21 5d | $355.00 | $1.12 / $1.30 | $121 | 25.8% | 82% | $356.21 | 713 |
| September 23 7d | $357.50 | $1.46 / $1.83 | $165 | 25.1% | 81% | $359.15 | 43 |
| September 25 9d | $360.00 | $1.88 / $2.07 | $198 | 23.4% | 81% | $361.98 | 1,520 |
| September 28 12d | $360.00 | $2.15 / $2.43 | $229 | 20.4% | 79% | $362.29 | 78 |
| September 30 14d | $362.50 | $2.17 / $2.98 | $258 | 19.6% | 80% | $365.08 | 0 |
| October 2 16d | $365.00 | $2.74 / $2.95 | $285 | 19.0% | 79% | $367.85 | 870 |
One row per expiration: the out-of-the-money strike closest to the middle of the delta band, which is the strike you would actually be looking at on that expiry. Break-even on a covered call is your own cost basis minus the premium, not the strike minus the premium, so the column above is the strike-side break-even and yours depends on what you paid for the shares.
What the premium is priced off
35% at the money is well above a market-average tape. You get paid more here. You get paid more here because it moves more.
Can you actually get filled
Median bid-ask spread is 14.9% of the mid, widening to 31.5% on the worst strike here. Workable, but do not send a market order. Open interest runs about 713 contracts at the median strike. Enough to trade, not enough to be careless with size. One expiry in this ladder has almost no open interest at all (September 30), and a strike nobody else holds is a strike you will be negotiating your way out of alone.
Dates that matter in this window
The earnings calendar was checked and came back clean for the 45-day window. Worth confirming yourself before you write anything: calendars move, and an unconfirmed date is not the same as no date. An ex-dividend date also falls inside the window, and that matters more for a covered call than most people expect. A call holder sitting on an in-the-money contract can exercise early to capture the dividend, which takes your shares before expiry and before you collected the last of the time value.
What the annualized column hides
The best annualized number in this ladder is 25.8%, on the $355.00 strike expiring September 21. It is $121 of actual cash. It annualizes well because it is a 5-day contract, and annualizing a two-week trade assumes you find twenty-six more like it, at the same premium, with the same risk. You will not.
If it gets called away
Take the $365.00 strike expiring October 2. You collect $285 up front. If AVGO finishes above $365.00 your 100 shares are sold there, and the 6.8% move from $341.90 up to the strike is yours as well. Everything above it is not. The model puts the odds of keeping the premium at about 79%, so assignment on this one is a real possibility rather than a footnote.
The number nobody checks is the cost basis. If you paid more than $365.00 for these shares, that strike locks in a loss on the stock, and $285 of premium does not repair it. A covered call is only a good trade at a strike you would genuinely accept selling at.
Questions people actually ask
What is a good strike for a covered call on AVGO?
The strikes above are the ones in the 0.15 to 0.25 delta band, which is where premium sellers targeting roughly an 80% chance of keeping the premium tend to sit. On the September 16, 2026 snapshot that meant $355.00 out to $365.00, depending on how far out you go. The right one for you is the lowest strike you would still be happy selling your shares at.
How much can you make selling covered calls on AVGO?
The best annualized figure in the ladder above was 25.8%, and the cash it represents was $121 for one contract. Annualized numbers assume you repeat the trade all year at the same premium, which nobody does. Treat them as a way to compare expiries, not as a forecast.
Does OptionsKing recommend selling calls on AVGO?
No. This page is a dated snapshot of the chain, not a recommendation, and the app has no opinion to offer beyond an ordering. It scores every in-band strike and shows you the best few by rank, with no minimum score anywhere, so at the last refresh 33 of the 33 in-band strikes were scored and the top few would have reached you whatever those scores were. See how the scoring works and the full disclaimer.
None of these is a pick. This is a dated snapshot of the AVGO chain from September 16, 2026, and an option chain from last week is history, not a quote.