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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Laura Martin: Real Options and the Cable Industry Introduction Laura Martin‚ an equity research analyst for cable stocks‚ believes that the best way to value cable stocks is through creative methods such as real options and not through more traditional or typical valuation methods such as EBITDA multiples‚ ROIC analysis and DCF analysis. In 1999 she presented at the Credit Suisse First Boston Broadband conference‚ where she wanted to portray the message that real options is a superior valuation
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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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of Options‚ Restricted Stock‚ and Cash for Employee Compensation Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer September 4‚ 2003 Abstract Using a detailed data set of employee stock option grants‚ we compare observed stock-optionbased pay plans to hypothetical cash-only or restricted-stock-based plans. We make a variety of assumptions regarding the possible bene ts of options relative to cash or stock‚ and then use observed option grants to make inferences regarding rms ’ decisions to issue options to
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Organizations and Society 34 (2009) 770–786 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Accounting‚ Organizations and Society journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/aos Making imaginary worlds real: The case of expensing employee stock options Sue Ravenscroft a‚*‚ Paul F. Williams b‚1 a b Department of Accounting‚ Iowa State University‚ 2330 Gerdin Building‚ Ames‚ IA 50011-1350‚ United States Department of Accounting‚ North Carolina State University‚ Box 8113‚ Raleigh‚ NC 27695-8113
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Laura Martin: Real Options Valuation in the Cable Industry Case Questions 1. What is the nature of Laura Martin’s job? Define the specific problem that she is addressing. A. Laura Martin is an equity research analyst. This was a unique opportunity to demonstrate her knowledge of the drivers of value in the cable industry. She was going to reveal the value of stocks of cable industry using real options‚ which is a more realistic way of evaluating the value of a project than EBITDA multiples
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Which of the following is not an appropriate hedging technique under these circumstances? A) purchase Canadian dollars forward. B) purchase Canadian dollar futures contracts. C) purchase Canadian dollar put options. D) purchase Canadian dollar call options. ANSWER: C 2. Graylon‚ Inc.‚ based in Washington‚ exports products to a German firm and will receive payment of €200‚000 in three months. On June 1‚ the spot rate of the euro was $1.12‚ and the 3-month forward rate
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and ECX have been owned by Climate Exchange PLC‚ a publicly traded company listed on the AIM division of the London Stock Exchange. ECX manages the product development and marketing for ECX Carbon Financial Instruments (ECX CFIs) futures and options contracts‚ listed and admitted to trading on the ICE Futures electronic platform. ECX/ICE Futures is the most liquid‚ pan-European platform for carbon emissions trading‚ attracting over 80% of the exchange-traded volume in the market. ECX emissions
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UVA-F-1339 Version 2.6 CORNING‚ INC.: ZERO COUPON CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES DUE NOVEMBER 8‚ 2015 (A) On November 8‚ 2000‚ Corning announced that it would issue $2.7 billion in zero-coupon convertible debentures priced at $741.923 per $1‚000 principal amount. The initial public offering (IPO) price yielded 2% per annum to maturity‚ compounded semiannually. A summary of terms is given in Exhibit 1. Concurrent with the offering‚ Corning also conducted a separate public offering of 30 million shares of
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project alone. The option for Penelope to make the follow-on investments can be treated as a call option. Therefore‚ we evaluated the expected value of the second-generation project by using Black-Scholes. If Penelope wanted to justify investing in the first-generation project by investing in the second-generation project‚ they would need the total APV equal or greater than zero‚ which means the sum of NPV of the first-generation project (- $3‚370‚071) and value of the call option to make the follow-on
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