Topic: From your corporate finance course you may recall that debt gives corporations leverage. Options also can give investors leverage. Explain how that works. Consider a stocks that is $20 and you...

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From your corporate finance course you may recall that debt gives corporations leverage. Options also can give investors leverage. Explain how that works.


Consider a stocks that is $20 and you buy a call option with exercise price of also $20. The premium for that call price is $1. Discuss how this option gives investor leverage if stock at maturity ends up at $22.



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Leverage can boost your profit or losses. Debt can give you leverage, also options can do that as well. Here we investigate impact of a call option on leverage with an example.



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Answer To: Topic: From your corporate finance course you may recall that debt gives corporations leverage....

Khushboo answered on Aug 12 2021
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Impact of call Option on leverage
Leverage helps in boosting the profit and losses as the leverage
will be two edge sword for the entity as leverage is a form of debt capital that can be taken by the various entity in order for managing the overall growth and capital structure (Adam Hayes and Margaret James 2020).
Similarly option also provides leverage to investors as the debt is used to create leverage in order to boost the profit. Option are popular type of leverage used by the retail investors who wish to give their portfolio a boost but on the other hand does not want to carry the risk included with the borrowing of money. Moreover call option uses the risk adjusted leverage which enables the investors in magnifying the return or loss on the sum invested. This can be best illustrated with the help of an example i.e. suppose in the month of august we buy a call for $300 which is currently trading...
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