The common stock of the P. U.T. T. Corporation has been trading in a narrow price range for the past month, and you are convinced it is going to break far out of that range in the next 3 months. You do not know whether it will go up or down, however. The current price of the stock is $85 per share, and the price of a 3-month call option at an exercise price of $85 is $8.00. a. If the risk-free interest rate is 5% per year, what must be the price of a 3-month put option on P. U.T. T. stock at an exercise price of $140? (The stock pays no dividends.) (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)
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b. What would be a simple options strategy to exploit your conviction about the stock price?

Roi analysis using dupont model. charlie? s furniture store has been in business for several years. the firm? s owners have described the store as a ? high-price, highservice? operation that provides lots of assistance to its customers. margin has averaged a relatively high 32% per year for several years, but turnover has been a relatively low 0.4 based on average total assets of $800,000. a discount furniture store is about to open in the area served by charlie? s, and management is considering lowering prices in order to compete effectively. required: a. calculate current sales and roi for charlie? s furniture store. b. assuming that the new strategy would reduce margin to 20%, and assuming that average total assets would stay the same, calculate the sales that would be required to have the same roi as they currently earned. c. suppose that you presented the results of your analysis in parts a and b of this problem to charlie, and he replied, ? what

The following information is available for jase company: market price per share of common stock $25.00 earnings per share on common stock $1.25 which of the following statements is correct? a. the price-earnings ratio is 20 and a share of common stock was selling for 20 times the amount of earnings per share at the end of the year. b. the market price per share and the earnings per share are not statistically related to each other. c. the price-earnings ratio is 5% and a share of common stock was selling for 5% more than the amount of earnings per share at the end of the year. d. the price-earnings ratio is 10 and a share of common stock was selling for 125 times the amount of earnings per share at the end of the year.

The returns on the common stock of maynard cosmetic specialties are quite cyclical. in a boom economy, the stock is expected to return 22 percent in comparison to 9 percent in a normal economy and a negative 14 percent in a recessionary period. the probability of a recession is 35 percent while the probability of a boom is 10 percent. what is the standard deviation of the returns on this stock?