
Paper P4: Advanced Financial Management
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If the bonus payment is 0.5% of EVA, on the basis of the previous year’s EVA the
executive could expect to receive $436,500 as a cash bonus.
Share options
The share options would be call options. Their value can be estimated from the
value of a similar put option, using the put-call parity theorem.
Value of put = Value of call – Current market value + Strike price × e
-rT
.
30 = Value of call – 140 + 140 × e
-(0.05 × 1)
30 = Value of call – 140 + (140 × 0.951229)
Value of call = 36.83cents.
The value of at-the-money call options on 2 million shares, with an exercise date in
one year, is therefore about $736,600.
52 Delta neutral
(a)
Barn plc could either buy put options on Door plc shares, or could write call
options. With put options, the company would pay a premium to secure a worst-
possible share price. With call options, the company would receive income from
selling the options but would be exposed to a risk of a rise in the share price above
the exercise price.
The company should choose November options, and might consider a strike price of
either 600 or 650.
If Barn plc buys November put options, it will buy 4,000 contracts.
(1)
If it buys put options at 600, the option premium payable will be 22.0. If the
share price at the end of November is 580, the put options will be exercised for
a gain of 20 (600 – 580). However, allowing for the premium, the net loss will
be 2.0 pence per share or £80,000 in total compared with a strategy of not
hedging the risk with options and selling the shares at the current market
price of 580.
(2)
If it buys put options at 650, the option premium payable will be 47.5. If the
share price at the end of November is 580, the put options will be exercised for
a gain of 70 (650 – 580). Allowing for the premium, the net gain will be 22.5
pence per share or £900,000 in total compared with a strategy of not hedging
the risk with options and selling the shares at the current market price of 580.
(b)
To establish a delta neutral position, the company should sell call options. If the
share price goes up, the value of the investment in 4 million shares will rise, but this
will be offset by the loss on the call options, leaving the net value of the investment
unchanged. If the share price falls, the loss in the value of the shares will be offset by
a gain on the options position.
The option delta for the relevant option is 0.46, which means that for every 1 share
held, the company would sell 1/0.46 = 2.1739 call options on the shares, or 8,695,600
call options in total.