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Last year Janet purchased a $1,000 face value corporate bond with a 12% annual coupon rate and a 30-year maturity. At the time of the purchase, it had an expected yield to maturity of 12.32%. If Janet sold the bond today for $920.86, what rate of return would she have earned for the past year? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places..
Computation Of Bond Price at the time of purchased | |||
a | Annual Coupon Amount | $ 120.00 | |
b | Present Value Annuity Factor for (30 Years,12.32%) | 7.868183 | |
c | Present Value Of Annual Interest (a*b) | $ 944.18 | |
d | Redemption Value | $ 1,000.00 | |
e | Present Value Of (30 Years,12.32%) | 0.03064 | |
g | Present Value Of Redemption Amount (d*e) | $ 30.64 | |
f | Bond price(c+g) | $ 974.82 | |
Rate of return = (sale price - purchase price + dividend income)/ purchase price | |||
=($920.86-974.82 +$120)/974.82 | |||
=66.04/974.82 | |||
=6.77% | |||