Blue-Moon-Berry Smoothie Case Summary

For example, a publicly traded fast food chain is supposed to come out with a new smoothie flavor, Blue-Moon-Blueberry, in June, six months away. While the current price of the fast food chain’s stock, is priced at $75 per share, Zachary (an investor who does not wish to purchase the shares outright but would rather potentially profit from short term movements) is confident the company’s stock price will soar well past $80 before the debut of the new Blue-Moon-Berry smoothie, therefore Zachary buys one June call options contract (representing 100 shares) with an $80 strike price for $2.00 per option, for a total premium paid of $200.00. Not including the cost of commissions, Zachary would lose money if the stock traded below $82.00 through option expiration (the strike price of $80.00 + the premium of $2.00 =$82.00 of cost to Zachary). Likewise, if you factor out commissions, Zachary would break even if he were to exercise his option contract at $82.00. Finally, factoring out

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