a)
To determine: The price of one-year Country AM’s put option on Company XL’s stock.
Introduction:
The Country AM’s option is a form of option wherein the trader has the ability to exercise the option at any time. The stock is a type of security in a company that denotes ownership. The company can raise the capital by issuing stocks.
An option is a contract to purchase a financial asset from one party and sell it to another party on an agreed price for a future date. There are two types of options, which are as follows:
- An option that buys an asset called call option
- An option that sells an asset called put option
The intrinsic value of put-option is the value derived from deducting strike price from underlying price (present stock price).
b)
To determine: The maximum price of one-year Country AM’s call option on Company XL’s stock.
Introduction:
The intrinsic value is the extra value given by the option price from the value of the underlying asset. The intrinsic value of a call-option is the value derived from deducting underlying price (present stock price) from strike price.
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