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Superior Clamps, Inc., has a capital structure consisting of 8.6 million shares of common stock and 916,000 warrants. Each warrant gives its owner the right to purchase one share of newly issued common stock for an exercise price of $22.50. The warrants are European and will expire one year from today. The market value of the company's assets is $171.5 million and the annual variance of the returns on the firm's assets is .30. Treasury bills that mature in one year yield a continuously compounded interest rate of 8.6 percent. The company does not pay a dividend. Use the Black-Scholes model to determine the value of a single warrant.
The real option analysis is used to take capital budgeting decisions by the management when they are investing in risky assets. It is generally used for projects investing in tangible assets instead of financial instruments. We can use the Black-Scholes model to determine the value of a single warrant as the price of call option.
We have following information
Superior Clamps, Inc., has number of shares of common stock = 8.6 million
Number of warrants =916,000
Exercise price of warrants X = $22.50.
Time period of expire t = 1 year
The market value of the company's assets = $171.5 million
Therefore share price S0 = the market value of the company's assets/ number of shares of common stock
= $171.5 million /8.6 million
= $ 19.94 per share
The annual variance of the returns on the firm's assets = 0.30
Therefore standard deviation σ = √variance = √ (0.30) = 0.5477
Treasury bills that mature in one year yield a continuously compounded interest rate (risk free rate) r = 8.6 percent.
The company does not pay a dividend.
Therefore value of the call option (C) can be calculated in following manner –
INPUTS |
Outputs |
Value |
|
Standard deviation (Annual) (σ) |
54.77% |
d1 |
0.21052 |
Time until Expiration (in Years) (t) |
1.00 |
d2 |
-0.33720 |
Risk free rates (Annual) (r) |
8.60% |
N(d1) |
0.58337 |
Stock Price (S0) |
$19.94 |
N(d2) |
0.36798 |
Strike price (X) |
$22.50 |
B/S call value (C ) |
4.03615 |
Dividend yield |
0.00% |
B/S Put Value (P) |
4.74016 |
Therefore the value of a single warrant is the value of call option which is $4.03615
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