Ryman Healthcare stock is trading at $13. Every six months, they pay a 15 cent dividend....
Ryman Healthcare stock is trading at $13. Every six months, they pay a 15 cent dividend. The next dividend is due in two months time. Interest rates are 1% (with continuous compounding), and the shares have volatility 12%. Price a nine month American call option with strike price $13.50, using Black’s approximation
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A stock that does not pay dividend is trading at $50. A European call option with strike price of $60 and maturing in one year is trading at $10. An American call option with strike price of $60 and maturing in one year is trading at $15. You can borrow or lend money at any time at risk-free rate of 5% per annum with continuous compounding. Devise an arbitrage strategy. So I know that usually american calls are never exercised...
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for this option is 11% and annualized standard deviation
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Problem1 A stock is currently trading at S $40, during next 6 months stock price will increase to $44 or decrease to $32-6-month risk-free rate is rf-2%. a. [4pts) What positions in stock and T-bills will you put to replicate the pay off of a European call option with K = $38 and maturing in 6 months. b. 1pt What is the value of this European call option? Problem 2 Suppose that stock price will increase 5% and decrease 5%...
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XYZ stock is trading at $120 per share, and the company will not pay any dividends over the next year. Consider an XYZ European call option and a European put option, both having an exercise price of $124 and both maturing in exactly one year. The simple (annualized) interest rate for borrowing and lending between now and one year from now is 3% for each 6 month period (6.09% per year). Assume that there are no arbitrage opportunities. Is there...
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4) A nine-month European call option is written on a stock that provides a continuous dividend yield of 4%; the strike price is $110, the risk-free rate is 2% and the stock's volatility is 30%. Assume that the stock is currently selling for $115. What is the price of the call?
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1. A stock price is currently $100. Over each of the next two six-month periods it is expected to go up by 10% or down by 10%. The risk-free rate is 8% per annum with continuous compounding. (a) What is the value of a one-year European call option with a strike price of $100? (b) What is the value of a one year European put option with a strike price of $100? (c) What is the value of a one-year...
A stock currently trading at $115 pays a $4 dividend in three
months and nine months. An option on the stock with an exercise
price of $105 expires in ten months. Annualized yield for T-bill
for this option is 11% and annualized standard deviation
(volatility) of the continuously compounded return on the stock is
17% per annum.
14. A stock currently trading at $115 pays a $4 dividend in three months and nine months. An option on the stock...
Problem1 A stock is currently trading at S $40, during next 6 months stock price will increase to $44 or decrease to $32-6-month risk-free rate is rf-2%. a. [4pts) What positions in stock and T-bills will you put to replicate the pay off of a European call option with K = $38 and maturing in 6 months. b. 1pt What is the value of this European call option? Problem 2 Suppose that stock price will increase 5% and decrease 5%...
4) A nine-month European call option is written on a stock that provides a continuous dividend yield of 4%; the strike price is $110, the risk-free rate is 2% and the stock's volatility is 30%. Assume that the stock is currently selling for $115. What is the price of the call?
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