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Group Formation and Company allocation - 2
A contract that gives the buyer right, no obligation, to buy/ sell an asset at strike
price prior to or on a specified date., depending on the form of the option.
Call option: nd Right to buy Put option: Right to sell at a fixed strike price.
If the option can be exercised any time before the expiration, it is called an America
option; if it can be exercised only on its expiration date, it is a European option.
If current stock price is greater than the strike price, the option is in-the money.
Option computation
3. Present value of Hedge portfolio Payoff at Risk Free rate and as per time period
4. Value of Option
NS x Current price less PV of payoff
ST-1 Binomial Model – single period
• To compute hedge quantity = ( Payoff if price up) minus ( payoff if price go down )
Divided by ( Price up minus Price down) = 18 – 0 / 60 – 30 = 18/30 = 0.6
• Option price = current stock price 40, purchased 0.6 (40 x .6) :
24 less 17.12 : 6.88
• Profit distribution
• Optimal policy - balance between dividends & growth, to increase firm’s stock price.
• The tax effect: long-term capital gains are subject to lower taxes than dividends,
investors prefer to have companies retain earnings rather than pay.
• clientele effect suggests that a firm will attract investors who like the firm’s payout
Profit Distribution –contd.
• Residual
• Stable