ABL shares are currently trading at a price of $30, while HHT shares are trading at a
Question:
ABL shares are currently trading at a price of $30, while HHT shares are trading at a price of $48.96. The risk-free rate is 1.29% per year.
Using the information above, perform each of the following tasks:
a) Identify which of the following options are in-the-money, out-of-the-money or at-the-money: Call on ABL with a strike of $28.34, Call on ABL with a strike-price of $27, Put on HHT with a strike-price of $63.53
b) If HHT shares have a 77% chance of increasing by 10% and a 23% chance of decreasing by 16% by the date of the option expiration, what will be the expected return on HHT shares and the expected return on a protective put position? For simplicity you may assume the put has a price of $1 and has the same strike-price as listed above.
c) Compute the Delta (number of shares) that if you also short a call on HHT will create a risk-free portfolio. Assume the call is European and that the strike-price is $45.0156
d) Using the information above, compute the risk-neutral probability of HHT shares increasing 10% if the time-step to the next node is 1 year.
e) Identify the name of the strategy that has one long stock and one short call. Any and all options may be assumed to have the same strike-price in answering this question.
f) Find the Black-Scholes price of the call on ABL with a strike price of $28.34 if there is 6 months until the call expires and the annual standard deviation of the stock price is 20%.
Introduction to Corporate Finance
ISBN: 9781118300763
3rd edition
Authors: Laurence Booth, Sean Cleary