NOW · expected move by expiry
ServiceNow is priced to move 7.1% by 2026-Sep-04.
Options price a ±7.12% move (about $10.31) by 2026-Sep-04 (Fri), a range of 132.34 to 152.96 from the last price of 144.71. Max pain for that expiry is 127.00.
NOW
ServiceNow, Inc.
Last
144.71 +6.28 (4.5%)
Next expiry move
±7.12% 6 days
Vol regime
Low
Put / call
0.59
Weekend
Fetched 2026-08-30, 02:46:46 AM ET
Fetched 2026-08-30, 02:46:46 AM ET
expected range last price 144.71 max painAxis 113 to 169, shared by every row
Expiry
Expected range (1 SD)
Expected move
Max pain
Odds inside
2026-Sep-04Fri, 6 days
132.34
152.96
Expected move±7.12%±$10.31
Max pain127.0012.2% below last price
Odds of closing inside70%put/call 0.59
2026-Sep-11Fri, 13 days
127.98
155.86
Expected move±9.63%±$13.94
Max pain124.0014.3% below last price
Odds of closing inside68%put/call 0.71
2026-Sep-18Fri, 20 days
123.57
158.81
Expected move±12.18%±$17.62
Max pain116.0019.8% below last price
Odds of closing inside68%put/call 0.72
2026-Sep-25Fri, 27 days
122.06
163.24
Expected move±14.23%±$20.59
Max pain126.0012.9% below last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 0.76
2026-Oct-02Fri, 34 days
119.54
166.17
Expected move±16.11%±$23.31
Max pain122.0015.7% below last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 0.50
Options flow, nearest expiry
Neutral
Expensive options, selling pressure likely Score -0.16 on a -1 to +1 scale.
Key levels from open interest
140.00 / 145.00
Heaviest put open interest sits at 140.00 and heaviest call open interest at 145.00. Price tends to gravitate toward large open interest into expiry.
Setup
Pre-Earnings / IV Spike Setup
Read from implied volatility, momentum and breakout signals across the chain. Descriptive, not a forecast.
Reading the NOW expected move table
Each row is one expiry. The shaded band is the one-standard-deviation range the option chain implies for NOW on that date: the market gives roughly a two-in-three chance that NOW closes inside it and a one-in-three chance it closes outside. The black tick is the last traded price, 144.71. The diamond is max pain, the strike where option holders would collect the least if the stock settled there.
The range widens with time because uncertainty compounds with the square root of time: the 2026-Oct-02 range (±16.11%) is wider than the 2026-Sep-04 range (±7.12%) even though the daily volatility behind both is the same. Read the methodology for the formulas, or the guide to what the expected move means in practice.
Figures are derived from delayed public option data and recalculated through the trading day. Nothing on this page is investment advice. Machine-readable version: /api/expected-move/NOW.
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