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Doximity [DOCS]

Doximity [DOCS] — Trade Construction & Liquidity Criteria

No position verdict is issued here. This section establishes how a position would be expressed and whether it can be, if the book elects one.

1. Liquidity Criteria — PASS (equity), FAIL (options at size)

Spot $21.62 (2026-07-29 close)
Market cap $3,957m
Shares outstanding 183.060m (filed balance sheet, 31 Mar 2026)
20-day average volume (IEX feed) 186,810 shares → ~$4.0m IEX notional
Consolidated $ADV (IEX is ~2–3% of tape) ~$130–200m/day, estimated — flagged as an estimate, not a measured consolidated figure
Bar recency last daily bar 2026-07-29 — liveness asserted (§9.4)
Corporate actions none pending; no 8-K/Form 25/Form 15 indicating a transaction. Buyback active (share count 188.9m → 183.1m over FY2026).

Equity liquidity is ample for any size this book would take.

2. Vehicle ladder — rung 1, EQUITY

Chosen vehicle: common equity. Ladder position 1. No argument required (criteria.md: "Equity is the default and needs no argument").

Required disclosure, given whatever the vehicle

Implied volatility minus trailing realised volatility, as a number:

Trailing 252-day realised volatility 57.0%
Implied volatility, ATM Jan-2027 $22.50 call (delta 0.58) 66.0%
IV − RV +9.0 volatility points

Quoted size at the specific strike (not chain-level open interest, per §"Depth of position is not depth of quote"):

Contract bid × size ask × size mid spread IV delta
DOCS 2027-01-15 C22.50 3.28 × 912 4.32 × 753 3.80 $1.04 = 27.4% of mid 66.0% 0.580
DOCS 2027-01-15 C20.00 4.42 × 773 5.58 × 710 5.00 23.2% of mid 67.6% 0.679
DOCS 2027-01-15 C25.00 2.43 × 888 3.48 × 854 2.96 35.5% of mid 66.6% 0.489

Why not the LEAP, explicitly

A Jan-2027 LEAP is 5.5 months out — shorter than the declared 12-month thesis horizon, which puts it on rung 3 and requires both an argument and a catalyst before expiry. The only expiries Alpaca returns beyond 2027-01 are 2027-02-19 (9 call contracts, max OI 19) and nothing further. So:

Conclusion: equity, with no derivative overlay. This is the same conclusion every chain pulled in this project on 2026-07-29 reached, and for the same measured reason.

3. Position construction, if the book elects one

The Valuation Criteria returns FAIL, so the long case is not established by this memo and no entry is proposed. Recorded for completeness if the book takes a view against this memo's conclusion:

4. Short Mechanism Criteria (MEASURED — scored, acted on by nothing on this fork)

Both legs are present and this is recorded, not acted on: - Decelerating growth: 17.0% (4y) → 15.5% (3y) → 13.1% (1y) → +3.9% guided. - Exhausted margin runway: GAAP operating margin 33.3%, already peaked at 39.9% (FY2025), now contracting; adjusted EBITDA guided down 6–10%; SBC at 18.9% of revenue and rising. Incremental leverage visibly spent.

Also noted per §9 of known-silent-failures: a negative long expected return is not a positive short expected return. Any short here would need borrow, slippage and the $748.6m net-cash floor priced on their own before the sign could be trusted. Not done, because this is a long-only book and the fork is not live.