Currently you own no stock or options.  Today's data for Green Corporation, where the call and put have the same exercise price and expire in one year:   Strike Price  Put Price  Call Price  Stock Price   $32.50        $2.85        $1.65        $30.00 a. If you construct a protective put strategy, which securities will you buy or sell, and what is your total investment today?  If the stock price is $20 on the expiration date, what will be the value of your portfolio (payoff) on that day, and your net profit? b. If you construct a covered call strategy, which securities will you buy or sell, and what is your total investment today?  If the stock price is $45 on the expiration date, what will be the value of your portfolio (payoff) on that day, and your net profit?

Consider the following information on AAPL. The current stock price is $326.72. The call option has a strike price of $320. The price of the call option is $68. The option has 1 year till expiration. Question: Suppose you purchase the option at the current price and hold it until expiration. If the stock price at expiration is $350, the return on your investment is: -55.88% 44.11% -100% None of the above

You would like to be holding a protective put position on the stock of XYZ Company to lock in a guaranteed minimum value of $240 at year-end. XYZ currently sells for $240. Over the next year, the stock price will either increase by 7% or decrease by 7%. The T-bill rate is 3%. Unfortunately, no put options are traded on XYZ Company. Required: a. How much would it cost to purchase if the desired put option were traded? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)   b. What would be the cost of the protective put portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

A.K. Scott’s stock is selling for $37 a share. A 3-month call on this stock with a strike price of $38 is priced at $2. Risk-free assets are currently returning 0.28 percent per month. a) What should be the price of a 3-month put option on this stock with a strike price of $38? b) Which of the two options is currently in the money and does that accord with your conclusions about their relative prices?

You have written a call option on Walmart common stock. The option has an exercise price of $81, and Walmart’s stock currently trades at $79. The option premium is $1.60 per contract. a. How much of the option premium is due to intrinsic value versus time value? b. What is your net profit if Walmart’s stock price decreases to $77 and stays there until the option expires? c. What is your net profit on the option if Walmart’s stock price increases to $87 at expiration of the option and the option holder exercises the option?

You would like to be holding a protective put position on the stock of XYZ Co. to lock in a guaranteed minimum value of $109 at year- end. XYZ currently sells for $109. Over the next year the stock price will increase by 12% or decrease by 12%. The T-bill rate is 6%. Unfortunately, no put options are traded on XYZ Co. a. Suppose the desired put option were traded. How much would it cost to purchase? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.) Cost to purchase b. What would have been the cost of the protective put portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.) Cost of the protective put portfolio c. What portfolio position in stock and T-bills will ensure you a payoff equal to the payoff that would be provided by a protective put with X = 109? Show that the payoff to this portfolio and the cost of establishing the portfolio match those of the desired protective put. (Do not round…

Shopify, Inc common stock currently sells for $1,229.91 per share, and the standard deviation of returns is 58.67%. A call option with a strike price of $1,100 is currently trading on the market. The option expires in 0.15 years, and the risk-free rate of return is 0.9%. Shopify does not pay a dividend. What is rho (ρ) for this call option assuming a continuous model such as the Black-Scholes model?   A) 104.1327   B) 107.2895   C) 57.7772   D) 107.0002

Please show step by step work (not in excel): What is the call option premium given the following information? What would happen to the call price if the company initiated and paid a dividend before the expiration of the option? What would happen to the call premium if the expiration of the option expanded beyond the current 9 months? Stock price   $36.00 Strike price $30.00 Volatility 16% Dividend Yield 0.00 Time 0.75 Riskfree Rate 2.70%

The current price of a stock is $18. In 1 year, the price will be either $28 or $15. The annual risk-free rate is 3%. The data has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file below. Open the spreadsheet and perform the required analysis to answer the question below. X Open spreadsheet Find the price of a call option on the stock that has a strike price is of $23 and that expires in 1 year. (Hint: Use daily compounding.) Assume 365-day year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest cent. $

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