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The wheel on ABBV

AbbVie Inc. was trading at $263.47 at the September 30, 2026 snapshot. A wheel needs both halves, a put worth selling and a call above the resulting cost basis worth writing, and the last scan of the ABBV chain did not produce both. The two legs are on their own pages below.

Numbers on this page come from a snapshot taken on September 30, 2026. They are not live quotes and are not refreshed when you load the page.

The wheel is one loop: sell a cash-secured put, take assignment if the stock comes to you, write a covered call above the resulting cost basis, and repeat when the shares are called away. It needs a liquid chain on both sides, and on the last refresh ABBV did not give one.

Both sides of the bar

What the premium is priced off

29% at the money is a normal tape for ABBV. The premium is fair, not generous.

Dates that matter in this window

Earnings land inside the 45-day window. That is the one date that reliably breaks a premium-selling trade: the stock gaps, the strike you picked on a probability model turns out to have been picked on the wrong distribution, and the vol you sold collapses to reward the buyer instead of you. The engine deducts heavily for it. An ex-dividend date falls inside the window too. On the put side that cuts the other way: the drop on the ex-date is priced into the option already, and early assignment on a short put is driven by extrinsic value running out, not by the dividend.

Questions people actually ask

How much capital does the wheel on ABBV need?

Strike times 100 per contract for the put leg, then 100 shares once assigned. The last snapshot had no complete cycle to price, so there is no figure to quote for ABBV here.

Is ABBV a good wheel stock?

The honest filters are: would you own 100 shares of it, is the chain liquid enough to get out of, and does the premium pay you for the gap risk. On the September 30, 2026 snapshot the at-the-money implied vol was 29% and the stock paid about 2.6% a year while you hold the shares. Those are inputs. The decision is yours, and this page is not making it.

What happens if ABBV keeps falling after assignment?

You own the shares at your cost basis and the market does not care what that number is. The wheel does not protect against a decline, it just gets you in a little cheaper than a buyer at the current price and pays you to wait. That is the entire edge, and it is small. See the wheel calculator to run the cycle with your own basis.

None of these is a pick. This is a dated snapshot of the ABBV chain from September 30, 2026, and an option chain from last week is history, not a quote.

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