Assignment 10
1. Read and study “Introduction to Real Options”
2. Read and study CH 17 from McDonald: “Real Options”
3. Read and study CH33 from Hull: “Real Options”
4. Case: Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project
Answer the following questions:
a. What makes Arundel think it can make money by buying a package of sequel rights? Is the profit opportunity, if it exists, likely to be sustainable?
Arundel can make money selling the rights to a higher bid. Another option to make money is by producing the sequel exercising its rights but this will depend on if the net present value of the production movies is higher than the amount of buying the rights. If the future positive cashflows are undervalued Arundel can seek an arbitrage
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The option will change every time the volatility changes. Also, the Price and costs are different because the discount the producers are taking into account. The production might have a negative cost so maybe it won´t have the same profit than the sequel. If you have a standard deviation higher, the call will be
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4. If Ms. Jameson decided that the option was a better deal, but was concerned with being too committed and reliant on the fortunes of Telstar, she could modify her compensation package to better suit her individual needs. Ms. Jameson would be taking considerable risk by keeping all of her bonus in Telstar for stock options with such a lengthy expiration date and also due to the historical data of Telstar showing that only stock prices reached $35 (the exercise price) only once.
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1. Why do the principals of Arundel Partners think they can make money buying movie sequel rights? Why do the partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating movie-by-movie to buy them?
In this case, a movie industry analyst is asked to evaluate a proposed venture in which a group of partners would purchase the sequel rights to movies produced by the major studios. Your objective is to 1) discuss and evaluate the basic concept; 2) determine the value of the sequel rights on a per-movie basis; 3) evaluate the possible upside and potential drawbacks to the proposed plan. As you will see, the ideas here incorporate elements of capital budgeting coupled with a “real options” analysis.
According to the six stages of setting price, ①we have to select the pricing objective. Since Cumberland is in the level of introducing CMI, they have to pursue product-quality leadership which is to offer “affordable luxuries” for now and consider about maximizing profit later. ②The second stage is to determine demand. So, Cumberland has to consider consumers’ price sensitivity - in this case sensitive to quality. Therefore, we should think about the benefit to consumers (in question 1-2 EVC)
Arundel should make an offer to buy sequel rights as the average NPV (on a per film basis ) is $5.51 mn (this is the value calculated using real options method).
The maximum per-film price for the sequel rights that Arundel Partners should pay is $5.12M.
With the purchase of sequel rights, what Arundel is achieving is to have a call option on the revenue that each movie brings. This helps to remove the uncertainty and risks associated with producing a movie, especially with regard to moviegoers’ taste. With the sequel right, Arundel will only exercise this option to produce a sequel if the first movie proved to be popular and the sequel is hence predicted to bring in profits. This provides downside protection, as huge losses (due to high production costs) associated with a failed movie will be avoided.
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