Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package (Abridged) Sally Jameson‚ a second-year MBA student at Harvard Business School‚ was thrilled but confused. It was late May 1992‚ graduation was approaching‚ and she had finally landed the job of her choice. She had just finished an early morning telephone conversation with Bob Marks‚ the MBA recruiting coordinator at Telstar Communications‚ a large‚ publicly held multinational company. Mr. Mark had offered Ms. Jameson a unique position
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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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American Puts. Explain why it has proved impossible to derive an analytical formula for valuing American Puts‚ and outline the main techniques that are used to produce approximate valuations for such securities Investing in stock options is a way used by investors to hedge against risk. It is simply because all the investors could lose if the option is not exercised before the expiration rate is just the option price (that is the premium) that he or she has paid earlier. Call options give the
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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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E4707: Financial Engineering: Continuous-Time Models c 2009 by Martin Haugh Fall 2009 Black-Scholes and the Volatility Surface When we studied discrete-time models we used martingale pricing to derive the Black-Scholes formula for European options. It was clear‚ however‚ that we could also have used a replicating strategy argument to derive the formula. In this part of the course‚ we will use the replicating strategy argument in continuous time to derive the Black-Scholes partial differential
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FINS 3635 - Options‚ Futures‚ and Risk Management Techniques: Mock Final May 28‚ 2012 1) Consider a firm with two classes of zero-coupon debt: senior debt and junior debt. Suppose that the firm’s debt securities both mature at time T1 and the senior ranking debt has a face value of X1 and the junior ranking debt has a face value of X2 . The claims of the senior debt holders are paid first‚ before the claims of the junior debt holders‚ who in turn are paid out their claims before the equity holders
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rates currently being swapped for three month LIBOR is 12% per annum for all maturities. The three month LIBOR rate one month ago was 11.8% per annum. All rates are compounded quarterly‚ what is the value of the swap? 4. A four month European call option on a non-dividend paying stock is currently selling for $5. The stock price is $64‚ the strike price is $60 and a dividend of $0.80 is expected in one month. The risk free interest rate is 12% per annum for all maturities. What opportunities are there
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operating cash flows. III. Financing activities have been increasingly important for this firm’s operations‚ at least in the short run. B. II and III only 9. All else the same‚ an ______ style option will be ______ valuable than a ______ style option. A. American‚ more‚ European 10. An American put option gives its holder the right to _________. C. sell the underlying asset at the exercise price on or before the expiration
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