A call option on 100 shares of Generous Dynamics stock has an exercise price $120.0 per share. GD declares a stock dividend of 34.0 percent. What happens to the exercise price and the number of shares underlying the option?
when the dividend is announced by General dynamics stock, it will mean that share prices will be adjusted for the dividend payments and share prices will be going down and it will also mean that call options will be adjusted for the strike price but overall exposure of the option will not be different and it will just be adjusting for the strike price in accordance with the current market price after the rate of dividend has been deducted from the overall stock price.
So, it can be said that exercise price of these call options will be coming down and number of shares outstanding can also adjust in accordance with the number of the strike price but the overall value of the exposure will be remaining the same.
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