Finance

The net payoff

You buy a 1-year put option and sell the corresponding call option. Both options are written on 1 share of IBM stock and both have an exercise price of $95. In addition, you also buy 1 share of IBM stock. What is the net payoff you receive from this 3-asset portfolio if at expiration the …

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Financial press

pick one news story (or potentially more if they are related) from the financial press and present it back to the group. Your choice of news story is up to you. Use the following structure to frame your discussion: What’s the headline?What does this mean?Why is this important to the economy?

Investment recommendations on several corporate bonds

  In this case, Janet O’Brian, a staff working in Wilson Family’s Foundation needs to make investment recommendations on several corporate bonds to the foundation’s Investment Committee. The key is on uncovering possible mispricing (either underpriced or overpriced) & the drivers of the mispricing. The bond earns an “attractive” rate of return if its yield …

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CONSTANT GROWTH VALUATION

Holtzman Clothiers’s stock currently sells for $38.00 a share. It just paid a dividend of $2.00 a share (i.e., Do = $2.00). The dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5% a year. What stock price is expected 1 year from now? What is the required rate of return?

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