Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC

Traditionally, Discounting Cash Flows (DCF) approaches are used to project valuation and then extend to company valuation. With the uprising development of options theory and computational techniques, an alternative valuation approach - real options approach is proposed to emphasize what traditional...

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Main Author: tsai, shunhui
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2007
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21078/
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description Traditionally, Discounting Cash Flows (DCF) approaches are used to project valuation and then extend to company valuation. With the uprising development of options theory and computational techniques, an alternative valuation approach - real options approach is proposed to emphasize what traditional valuation approaches neglect. Since high-tech companies have option-like characteristics and asymmetric payoffs, this paper attempts to apply real options pricing model developed by Schwartz and Moon (2000, 2001) to price high-tech companies and look for the key value drivers. The paper adopts case study methodology, focusing on a leading company --High Tech Computer (HTC), which is develops and produces Smart phones and Pocket PCs. After simulations, it seems this model can produce a reasonable result for valuation purpose.
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spelling nottingham-210782022-03-21T16:03:53Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21078/ Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC tsai, shunhui Traditionally, Discounting Cash Flows (DCF) approaches are used to project valuation and then extend to company valuation. With the uprising development of options theory and computational techniques, an alternative valuation approach - real options approach is proposed to emphasize what traditional valuation approaches neglect. Since high-tech companies have option-like characteristics and asymmetric payoffs, this paper attempts to apply real options pricing model developed by Schwartz and Moon (2000, 2001) to price high-tech companies and look for the key value drivers. The paper adopts case study methodology, focusing on a leading company --High Tech Computer (HTC), which is develops and produces Smart phones and Pocket PCs. After simulations, it seems this model can produce a reasonable result for valuation purpose. 2007 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21078/1/07MAlixsht3.pdf tsai, shunhui (2007) Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC
title Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC
title_full Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC
title_fullStr Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC
title_full_unstemmed Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC
title_short Pricing High-Tech Company by Real Options Approach: A Case Study of HTC
title_sort pricing high-tech company by real options approach: a case study of htc
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21078/