If the claim holder receives a cash-flow rate before maturity, the self-financing hedge matches the claim's cum-dividend gain . Its stock holding is the option delta and its bank-account value is . Comparing Itô formula with portfolio gains gives the displayed equation, with terminal value equal to the terminal payoff. The positive source term represents dividends paid by the claim; dividends on the underlying stock would instead alter the stock's pricing drift. Risk-neutral pricing includes both the discounted terminal payoff and the integral of discounted interim payments.
In the Black-Scholes model, suppose a stock pays continuous dividend yield , a claim pays cash flow , and its terminal financial payoff is . If the discounted cash-flow integral is finite, its risk-neutral pricing value is the displayed expression. To derive it, substitute into the Black-Scholes equation with claim dividends, including stock drift . This gives , , which an integrating factor solves. The interest rate cancels because all payments are proportional to the same stock.

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