EVA Comparison with Direct Employee Stock Ownership and Option Plans An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is a type of defined contribution benefit plan that buys and holds company stock. Employees do not actually buy shares in an ESOP. Instead‚ the company contributes its own shares to the plan‚ contributes cash to buy its own stock or has the plan borrow money to buy stock‚ with the company repaying the loan. All of these uses have significant tax benefits for the company‚ the employees
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European-style options. For American options‚ the effect is unambiguous: Increasing the time to maturity always increases an option’s value because it increases the uncertainty of the spot exchange rate at maturity. When this effect is combined with the fact that the holder of a 6-month option can always treat the option as a 3-month option‚ we clearly see that the additional 3 months of maturity cannot hurt the payoff to the holder of the option as long as the holder of the option can exercise it
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(13-5) How is it possible for an employee stock option to be valuable even if the firm’s stock price fails to meet shareholder’s expectations? Employees have the option of buying stocks because stock options are in essence the right to buy a specified number of shares at a specified price known as the “strike price”‚ within a specified period of time. There are several ways an employee stock option could be valuable. The option pays off if‚ at option expiration‚ the stock price is higher than the
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MFIN6003 Derivative Securities Dr. Huiyan Qiu End-of-chapter Questions for Practice (with Answers) Following is a list of selected end-of-chapter questions for practice from McDonald’s Derivatives Markets. For students who do not have a copy of the McDonald’s book‚ be aware that a copy of the book is reserved at the main library of the University of Hong Kong for you to borrow for short period of time. Answers provided are for your reference only. It is complied directly from the solution
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Ans 1: Option A Ans 2: New Required return for HR = 7% + 2*(11% -7%) = 15% New Required return for LR = 7% + .5*(11% - 7%) = 9% So difference is 6% Option E Ans 3: No of stocks = 20 Weight of each stock = 1/20 Beta of portfolio = 1.2 Beta of stock sold = 0.7 Beta of stock bought = 1.4 Hence new portfolio beta = 1.2 -.7/20 + 1.4/20 = 1.2 + .7/20 = 1.235 Option B Ans 4: New Beta = 0.7*1.5 = 1.05 Old required rate of return = 15% So old risk free rate = 15% -5%*.7 =11.5% New Required
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have the inflow now and the outflows in future years where this relation is inversed. b) Yield to maturity is not a valid measure of expected return for a zero coupon bond since it does not take into account future reinvestment opportunities. False‚ it is a valid measure because there are no reinvestments for the duration of the bond. c) The dividend discount model ignores capital gains. False‚ the DDM can be decomposed into the capital gain and the dividend yield d) As long as the correlation is
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MOGEN‚ INC. Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives In 2006‚ Merrill Lynch became the lead book runner for a $5 billion convertible bond issue for MoGen‚ Inc. This was the single‚ largest convertible bond issuance in history and required a considerable amount of effort on the part of Merrill Lynch’s Equity Derivatives Group to convince MoGen’s management to choose Merrill Lynch over its competitors. The case is focused on Merrill Lynch’s choice of the conversion premium and coupon rate
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A $1‚000 face value bond has a 7.85 percent semi-annual coupon and sells for $982.50. What is the current yield? 7.61 percent 7.89 percent 7.82 percent 7.75 percent 7.99 percent Question 2: 1 pts A 7 percent coupon bond has a face value of $1‚000 and pays interest annually. The current yield is 6.8 percent. What is the current price of this bond? $1‚104.00 $978.41 $971.43 $1‚068.00 $1‚029.41 Question 3: 1 pts A 7.5 percent coupon bond is currently quoted at 89.3 and has a face
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Problem 20-6 on Call Options Based on Chapter 20 (Excel file included) You own a call option on Intuit stock with a strike price of $40. The option will expire in exactly 3 months’ time. a) If the stock is trading at $55 in 3 months‚ what will be the payoff of the call? b) If the stock is trading at $35 in 3 months‚ what will be the payoff of the call? c) Draw a payoff diagram showing the value of the call at expiration as a function of the stock price at expiration. Short call: value at expiration
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financed with equity is: $3‚000‚000 x 85% = $2‚550‚000. Since the firm has $3‚500‚000 of net income‚ $950‚000 = $3‚500‚000 - $2‚550‚000 will be left for dividends. 2. Question : (TCO F) The following data applies to Saunders Corporation’s convertible bonds: Maturity: 10 Stock price: $30.00 Par value: $1‚000.00 Conversion price: $35.00 Annual coupon: 5.00% Straight-debt yield: 8.00% What is the bond’s conversion value? (a) $698.15 (b) $734.89 (c) $773.57 (d) $814.29 (e) $857.14 Instructor Explanation:
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