Bond and Percent

e. If we evaluated at the same effective rate, the earlier payments would give the semiannual bond the higher value.

Inflation erodes the purchasing power of a bond 's future cash flows. A rise in inflation will cause investors to demand higher yields to compensate for inflation rate risk. Also, prices will tend to drop because the bond will be paying interest with less purchasing power.

A bond with an annual coupon of $70 and originally sold at par for $1,000. The current market interest rate (yield to maturity) is 8%. This bond will sell at _______. Assuming no change in market interest rates, the bond will present the holder with capital ________ as it matures.

GE has a face value of $98.40 and the coupon is 0.042%, which is equivalent to $0.00042, which is no money, rounded to the nearest hundredths. The maturity of the bond is 5 years (5/17/2021), so Billy would get $500.00 back from the GE bond issuers. Billy would make a dividend of $8 by buying the bond at a lower price than the returned money. PEP has a face value of $99.60 and the coupon percentage is 0.467%, which is 0.00467 and 0.01 rounded to the nearest hundredths. The maturity is 2 years (04/30/2018), so Billy would get $200.02 back and make a dividend of

(b) Coupon and principal of the Regular Treasury bonds are fixed, therefore if the inflation rate increases in the forecasting future, investor will receive the same amount of coupon and principal with less real value and purchasing power.

The yield to maturity on a 15-year bond is a true estimate of the cost of 30-year bond

∆P/P = –D*(∆y) D* = D/(1 + y) = 7/1.073 = 6.52 ∆P/P = –D*(∆y) = –6.52(–0.09%) = .59% New price = $1,073(1.0059) = $1,079.33 Learning Objective: 11-02 Compute the duration of bonds; and use duration to measure interest rate sensitivity.

- The Bet-r-Bilt Company has a 5-year bond outstanding with a 4.30 percent coupon. Interest payments are paid semi-annually. The face amount of the bond is $1,000. This bond is currently selling for 93 percent of its face value. What is the company's pre-tax cost of debt?

The bonds have 20 years to maturity, pay interest at 9.3%, have a par value of $1,000 and are currently selling for $890.

So, the 20 year corporate bond interest rate associated with the company’s rating is 3.86.

b. Generate a graph or table showing how the bond’s present value changes for semi-annually compounded interest rates between 1% and 15%.

And, if the Treasury rate is 9.10 percent, the make whole call price in 7 years is:

Through this method, we obtained theoretical yields of the 4.25% coupon bond and 10.625% coupon bond to be 2.899% and 2.639% respectively. The corresponding theoretical prices of the bonds are $108.27 for the 4.25% coupon bond and $149.31 for the 10.625% coupon bond (see Table 1 above).

Describe the differences in interest payments and bond price between a 5 percent coupon bond and a zero coupon bond.

3. A european corporation has issued bonds with a par value of Sfr 1,000 and an annual coupon of 5 percent. The last coupon on these bonds was paid four months ago, and their current clean price is 90 percent.