Answer: B. 1 DEF Jan 50 Call
Explanation:
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) acting under its mandate of being an issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts can alter options prices but does not do so for prices based on normal dividends as they are more regular and their effects are already accounted for in the price of the call.
When a company calls a one-time special cash dividend, this is new to the market which would not have incorporated it into the price of the call. The OCC will then adjust the price to account for this.
In this case it will do so by subtracting the dividend from the call;
= 55 - 5
= $50
The customer will then have 1 DEF Jan 50 Call
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Answer:
d. If Cazden's stock price rose by $5, the exercise value of the options with $25 strike price would also increase by $5.
Explanation:
A call option confers a right, not an obligation upon the call buyer to buy a security at a pre determined price, known as exercise price or strike price at a future date.
A call buyer would exercise his right only in the scenarios wherein the strike price is lesser than the current market price on maturity.
Profit of a call buyer is given by = CMP as on expiry - Exercise/Strike price - Option premium paid
wherein CMP= Current Market Price
A call option is "in the money" when it's strike price is less than it's current market price. In the given case, it means if the CMP today represents CMP upon expiry, call buyer would exercise his right and his gain would be $5 i.e $30 - $25.
Since the $25 exercise option is "in the money", an increase in stock price by $5 will also increase the strike price by $5.
Answer:
Unrelated Diversification
Explanation:
The reason is that the company has entered in a number of product offering that are unrelated to each other. This means the company has subtantially reduced its industry risk by managing a portfolio of products that are different from each other from industry perspective. This is an example of unrelated diversification because comics are unrelated to sports figures, music videos and motion pictures.
Answer:
They would cause relatively smaller reductions in death from heart disease.
Explanation:
Since in the question it is mentioned that the government incurred $45 million for research on the heart disease and gain that decreased the death occured from the heart disease. Now if the law of diminishing retuns hold, so the extra rise in expenditure on heart disease result in relatively small decline as it decreases the returns
Therefore the same is to be considered
