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Effects of Dividends on Call Options
Extrinsic value of Call Options are deflated due to dividends not only because of an expected reduction in the price of the stock but also due to the fact that call options buyers do not get paid the dividends that the stock buyers do. This makes call options of dividend paying stocks less attractive to own than the stocks itself, thereby depressing its extrinsic value. How much the value of call options drop due to dividends is really a function of its moneyness. In the money call options with high delta would be expected to drop the most on ex-date while out of the money call options with lower delta would be least affected.
This is also why many options traders exercise their deep in the money call options with close to zero extrinsic value just before the dividend payout date if they are trading American Style Options. Exercising the call options for the dividends will help to preserve the value of the position as the dividends recieved offsets the drop in price of the stock.
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