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a. The ABC company issued bonds with a face value of
$1,000 each. The bonds carry an 8 percent coupon, pay interest
semi-annually, and mature in 7 years. What is the current price of
these bonds if the yield to maturity is 12 percent?
b. If the market price of the bond is $1,050, do you buy or sell
the bond? Why?
c. What type of bond is this? Why?
| a) | Par/Face value | 1000 | |||||||||||||
| Annual Coupon rate | 0.08 | ||||||||||||||
| Annual coupon | 80 | ||||||||||||||
| semi-annual coupon | 40 | ||||||||||||||
| Present Value = Future value/[(1+(r/m))^mt] | |||||||||||||||
| r is the interest rate that is 12%. | |||||||||||||||
| m is the compounding period that is 2 | |||||||||||||||
| mt is the time period. | |||||||||||||||
| price of the bond = sum of present values of future cash flows | |||||||||||||||
| r/2 | 0.06 | ||||||||||||||
| mt | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
| future cash flow | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 1040 | |
| present value | 37.73585 | 35.59986 | 33.58477 | 31.68375 | 29.89033 | 28.19842 | 26.60228 | 25.09649 | 23.67594 | 22.33579 | 21.0715 | 19.87877 | 18.75356 | 459.993 | |
| sum of present values | 814.10 | ||||||||||||||
| The current price of these bonds is $814.10 | |||||||||||||||
| b. If the market price of the bond is $1,050, do you buy or sell the bond? Why? | |||||||||||||||
| b) | The actual value of these bonds is $814.10, so you should sell the bonds in the market for | ||||||||||||||
| $1050 and make a profit of (1050 - 814.10) $235.9 per bond. | |||||||||||||||
| c) | This bond is a premium bond because the market price ($1050) is more than | ||||||||||||||
| its face value ($1000). | |||||||||||||||
| The current market price should be $814.10, however the bond is trading at a | |||||||||||||||
| premium of $1050. |