ANSWER
YES,
the price an investor would be willing to pay would totally depend
upon the "tenure" he is going to hold his Investment
for.
EXPLANATION/JUSTIFICATION
- Whenever we purchase any product from the market , we
first look at the benefits that we will get out of such product in
the future and then decide its worth . If the price of such product
is higher than its worth than we do not buy such product and
vice-versa.
- Similarly above Concept applies in Stock Market as
well. When an Investor wants to Invest into any Stock or Bond, he
would first look at the future benefits that he will get from such
stock in the form of Dividends and Redeemable Value/Resale value of
such Bond/Stock at the time of exiting from such
Investment.
- Accordingly he will be willing to pay only the actual
worth of such Investment which will be the Present Value of all the
Future Incomes that he would receive and the Resale Value at the
time of Selling such Investment.
- So now if he would be holding an Investment for a
shorter period of time (lets say 2 years) than the Future Incomes
(ie. Dividends or Coupons) will get reduced to such period of 2
years only which will reduce the Fair Value of such Investment
WHEREAS if the holding
tenure is greater (lets say 30years) then it would Increases the
Worth of such Investment as on today by the amount of such
additional income discounted value.
- Hence in such a case (ie. when he is holding for 30
years) he might be willing to pay more than in otherwise
case
- Also when the Holding Period of an Investment is
higher, Risk Factor attached to such Investment also gets increased
which again impacts the price that an Investor would pay for such
Investment as such risk would reduce the amount.
- Such Risks can be Default Risk , Market Risk , Interest
Rate Risks etc.
- Hence we can conclude that the "holding period" of an
Investment is an important factor that will impact the price that
an investor would pay for such investment.