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Your firm has a credit rating of A. You notice that the credit spread for five-year maturity A debt is
86
basis points
0.86 %(0.86%).
Your firm's five-year debt has an annual coupon rate of
6.3%.
You see that new five-year Treasury notes are being issued at par with an annual coupon rate of
2.2%.
What should be the price of your outstanding five-year bonds?
Since credit spread shows the difference between yield on treasury notes and corporate bonds of the same maturity,
Credit spread = yield on 5-year corporate bond - yield on 5-year treasury notes
Yield on 5-year corporate bond = 0.86% + 2.2% = 3.06%
The price of the Bond is calculated in excel below