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NPV:
Often misapplied Ignores strategic values if misapplied
Examples:
Agriculture: A beef producer will value the option to switch between various feed sources, preferring to use the cheapest acceptable alternative
Utility industry. An electric utility may have the option to switch between various fuel sources to produce electricity. In particular, consider an electric utility that has the choice of building a coal-fired plant or a plant that burns either coal or gas.
Examples:
Toy industry. A manufacturer's ability to cease producing a style of toy that has become unfashionable and quickly begin producing a popular new style of toy.
These options are particularly important for large capital intensive projects such as nuclear plants, airlines, and railroads. They are also important for projects involving new products where their acceptance in the market is uncertain.
Examples:
If the price of oil falls below the cost of extraction, for example, it may be optimal to temporarily shut down the oil well until the oil price recovers.
Farming: May be exercised if the cost of fertilizing, watering and harvesting exceeds the sale price of the product. Real-estate development: May be exercised if the cost of construction exceeds rent revenues.
Option to Expand
Build production capacity or the infrastructure for the capacity in excess of expected level of output (so it can produce at higher rate if needed). Management has the right (not the obligation to expand). If project conditions turn out to be favorable, management will exercise this option.
Example
Mozal Project
Option to Expand
Option to Contract
This is the equivalent to a put option. Many projects can be engineered in such a way that output can be contracted in future. Forgoing future expenditures is equivalent to exercising the put option.
Example:
Modularization of project.
Option to Contract
A project whose operation can be dynamically turned on and off (or switched to two distinct locations) is worth more than the same project without the flexibility to switch.
Examples:
The purchaser of an off-shore lease can choose when, if at all, to develop property.
Growth Options
The value of the firm can exceed the market value of the projects currently in place because the firm may have the opportunity to undertake positive NPV projects in the future. Standard capital budgeting techniques involve establishing the present value of these projects based on anticipated implementation dates. However, this implicitly assumes that the firm is committed to go ahead with the projects.
Growth Options
Since management need not make such a commitment, they retain the option to exercise only those projects that appear to be profitable at the time of initiation.
Example:
High-tech and software industries (where there are significant first-mover advantages)
Shadow Costs
Standard valuation techniques may overvalue some projects by failing to recognize the losses in flexibility to the firm that result from implementation. The acceptance of one project may eliminate options that attach to other projects.
Building a plant in a particular city eliminates the options to expand the capacity of plants in nearby cities. Management time.
Financial Flexibility
Choice of capital structure can affect value of project. Like operating flexibility, financial flexibility can be measured by the value of the financial options made available to the firm by its choice of capital structure. Interaction between financial and operating options can be strong -- especially for long-term investment projects with a lot of uncertainty
Deposit contains eight million pounds of copper Mining involves a one-year development phase, at a cost of $1.25 million immediately
Extraction costs (outsourced) at $0.85 / pound at beginning of extraction phase (one year after development phase is initiated)
Sale of copper would be at spot price of copper as of beginning of extraction phase
Current spot price of copper is $0.95 / pound Log change in copper prices are normally distributed with mean 7% and standard deviation 20% (p.a.) Abbeytown's required rate of return for this project is 10%, and the riskless rate is 5%
Reject
S X T rf
7.6 6.8 1.00 5.00% 20.00% 0.9061 0.7061 0.8176 0.7599 1.298 0.166
d1 d2 N(d 1 ) N(d 2 ) CE PE
Current Asset Value Exercise (Strike) Price Time to Maturity (Years) Riskless Interest Rate (% p.a.) Volatility (% p.a.)
Accept
S X T rf
7.6 6.8 1.00 5.00% 20.00% 0.9061 0.7061 0.8176 0.7599 1.298 0.166
d1 d2 N(d 1 ) N(d 2 ) CE PE
Current Asset Value Exercise (Strike) Price Time to Maturity (Years) Riskless Interest Rate (% p.a.) Volatility (% p.a.)
Probality of exercise European Call Value ($) European Put Value ($)
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Scenario 1a
Build now or never. Cost to build is 1,100. NPV=1,044 - 1,100 = -56. Negative NPV. Reject the project.
Scenario 1b
Build now or never. Cost to build is reduced to 1,000. NPV=1,044 - 1,000 = +44. Positive NPV. Accept the project.
Scenario 2
Option to delay for one year. During this one-year delay, the generator learns whether or not the new entrepreneurial link will proceed. Based on this additional information, a smarter decision can be made. Cost to build is 1,100.
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up state
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Scenario 2a (continued)
Option to delay for one year. Cost to build is 1,100. Wait one year:
Scenario 2a (continued)
Compare with NPV without delay: NPV without delay = - 56 Difference: 136
Scenario 2b
Option to delay for one year. Cost to build is 1,000. If we build now, NPV0 = 44. What if we wait one year?
Scenario 2b
Scenario 2b
Remarks
The option to delay can be valuable, even if the project has positive NPV if started immediately. The value of these options is ignored by standard DCF techniques. Proper analysis of these options is needed not just for project valuation, but also for project timing.
156 ... 125 100 80 800 100 ... Yearly Cash Flows
Scenario 3 (continued)
When the abandonment option is incorporated, the NPV of building the project now is +77. The NPV of waiting for one year is +126. It is still optimal to delay for one year in this case, although the incremental value of delaying has decreased. The value of the option to delay is lower if it is easy to exit a bad investment.
Beware of mean reversion Theory relies on availability of a replicating portfolio Equilibrium issues