Out of the Money
Tim Hack
Namib Minerals is not a gold stock. It is a call on gold with a strike around $4,500 — and with a company as its underlying that is itself out of the money: $1.9 million in cash, an unpaid purchase price for its mines, a float of four million shares. That is exactly what makes it the highest-leverage instrument among all producing gold miners: what keeps the option out of the money today is the same thing that carries it into the money faster than any other above the strike — January 2026 showed it with a 26-fold beta. Second survey of Namib Minerals (NASDAQ: NAMM): option mechanics, ownership chain, the price of time.
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