Highest covered call premiums
Across the 60 tickers tracked here, the richest in-band covered call at the September 30, 2026 snapshot was the MU $1,185 strike expiring October 5: $1,093 a contract, 73.8% annualized, with roughly 83% 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 | $1,080 | $1,185 | October 5 5d | $1,093 | 73.8% | 83% |
| INTCIntel Corporation | $118.67 | $126.00 | October 5 5d | $106 | 65.2% | 80% |
| TSLATesla Inc. | $351.03 | $360.00 | October 5 5d | $310 | 64.5% | 79% |
| AMDAdvanced Micro Devices | $613.57 | $627.50 | October 5 5d | $495 | 58.9% | 75% |
| FCXFreeport-McMoRan | $72.19 | $76.00 | October 9 9d | $91 | 51.1% | 76% |
| NKENike Inc. | $35.78 | $40.00 | October 9 9d | $44 | 49.3% | 81% |
| AMZNAmazon.com Inc. | $250.65 | $255.00 | October 5 5d | $163 | 47.5% | 78% |
| AAPLApple Inc. | $338.29 | $342.50 | October 5 5d | $193 | 41.5% | 79% |
| ORCLOracle Corporation | $136.93 | $147.00 | October 9 9d | $133 | 39.2% | 80% |
| SOFISoFi Technologies | $15.98 | $17.00 | October 9 9d | $15 | 36.8% | 80% |
| GOOGLAlphabet Inc. Class A | $349.48 | $360.00 | October 5 5d | $162 | 33.7% | 77% |
| QCOMQualcomm Inc. | $185.09 | $200.00 | October 9 9d | $144 | 31.4% | 79% |
| MSFTMicrosoft Corporation | $518.36 | $530.00 | October 5 5d | $222 | 31.3% | 80% |
| UNHUnitedHealth Group | $367.85 | $387.50 | October 9 9d | $270 | 29.8% | 79% |
| CRMSalesforce Inc. | $232.14 | $245.00 | October 9 9d | $162 | 28.2% | 82% |
| AVGOBroadcom Inc. | $354.46 | $370.00 | October 7 7d | $191 | 28.0% | 79% |
| CCitigroup Inc. | $130.69 | $135.00 | October 9 9d | $90 | 27.9% | 75% |
| METAMeta Platforms | $726.14 | $760.00 | October 5 5d | $277 | 27.8% | 78% |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | $189.25 | $202.50 | October 9 9d | $130 | 27.8% | 79% |
| NVDANVIDIA Corporation | $231.09 | $237.50 | October 5 5d | $86 | 27.0% | 80% |
| IBMInternational Business Machines | $220.45 | $230.00 | October 9 9d | $141 | 25.9% | 77% |
| ABNBAirbnb Inc. | $161.32 | $170.00 | October 16 16d | $181 | 25.6% | 80% |
| NFLXNetflix Inc. | $72.16 | $73.00 | October 9 9d | $44 | 24.7% | 79% |
| FFord Motor Company | $12.25 | $13.00 | October 23 23d | $17 | 22.0% | 76% |
| BAThe Boeing Company | $188.85 | $200.00 | October 9 9d | $99 | 21.1% | 83% |
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 sort this way. It gives every candidate a confidence score from 0 to 100 and orders by that alone, so a premium that is fat for a bad reason sinks instead of leading, and return is a filter you can add on top. On this exact snapshot 22 of these names produced at least one in-band call worth scoring. This page ranks by yield because that is the question people search for. It is not the question that decides a trade.