ATM call delta with a 3% dividend yield
Question
Consider the same one-year at-the-money European call with , but now the stock pays a continuous dividend yield of . Is delta above or below ?
Short answer
Still above . Now with . That is at least for every , so and . The dividend discount is not enough to pull it below one half.
Adapted from Crack, Heard on the Street, Q2.6, p.24; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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- Greeks and Numerical Sensitivities
- Derivation — From Binomial Trees to Black-Scholes in the Continuous Limit
- The Black-Scholes Formula Derived via Change of Measure
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