I have received questions about interpreting the ratio. Let me use yesterday's closing price. The merger probability is derived from a two scenario test, merger closure or merger non closure (there is also a competing offer scenario in reality). Let's use a closing DYN price of $46.20 yesterday (note I had a typo), at the exchange ratio, (not taking into account timing and dividends), this yields a merged ENE price of $12.40 ($46.20 * .2685). ENE closed at $10.00 yesterday. Thus if the market thought there was complete certainty of merger, the prices would converge at $12.40. Now comes the artful part, the non merger ENE price. I included another tab (Merger) to sensitize this. Say we pick an ENE price with no merger of $4.00. Looking at a deterministic probability, one can look at the distance (difference) in dollars to calculate the probability. For instance: ENE merged 12.40 ENE close 14-Nov 10.00 ENE no merger 4.00 Probability of merger = (1-((12.40-10.00) / (12.40 - 4.00))) or 71.4%. Said another way, there is a 71.4% chance of being worth $12.40 and a 28.6% chance of being worth $4.00, which yields a weighted price of $10.00 ($12.40 * 71.4%)+($4.00 * 28.6%). I also included a $1 distressed ENE price and a $7 previously observed low end ENE price as scenarios. Regards,
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