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Eki, Inc., a producer of table lamps, has a total of 1,500,000 shares outstanding. The current value of the firm is $15 million (no debt). It issues a total of 50,000 2-year warrants to its two top executives with an exercise price of $30. If the risk-free rate is 10% and if the standard deviation of the Eki stock is 50%, compute the value (price) of each warrant if it can only be exercised on the expiration date.
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
Eki, Inc., has number of shares of common stock = 1,500,000
Number of warrants =50,000
Exercise price of warrants X = $30.
Time period of expire t = 2 year
The market value of the company's assets = $15 million
Therefore share price S0 = the market value of the company's assets/ number of shares of common stock
= $15 million /1,500,000
= $15,000,000/1,500,000
= $ 10 per share
The standard deviation of stock σ = 50%
Risk free rate r = 10%
Assume that 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) |
50.00% |
d1 |
-0.91728 |
Time until Expiration (in Years) (t) |
2.00 |
d2 |
-1.62438 |
Risk free rates (Annual) (r) |
10.00% |
N(d1) |
0.17950 |
Stock Price (S0) |
$10.00 |
N(d2) |
0.05215 |
Strike price (X) |
$30.00 |
B/S call value (C ) |
0.51416 |
Dividend yield |
0.00% |
B/S Put Value (P) |
15.07608 |
Therefore the value of each warrant is the value of call option which is $0.51416
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