A company is considering an investment in the Stock ZZZ currently trading at $42.0. The price of the Stock ZZZ is expected to be highly volatile in the subsequent months. Therefore, the company buys one call option and one put option on the stock. Both options expire in 3 months and have the same exercise price of $37.5. The call option premium is $6.0 and the put option premium is $1.5. Required:
1) What is the term commonly used for this option strategy?
2) For each of the following two independent scenarios, compute the value of the option position at expiration and the profit of the strategy. a) The stock price at expiration is $43.5. b) The stock price at expiration is $22.5.
3) Compute the breakeven stock prices at expiration.
