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Suppose your company needs to raise $54 million and you want to issue 25-year bonds for this purpose. Assume the required return on your bond issue will be 4.8 percent, and you’re evaluating two issue alternatives: A semiannual coupon bond with a coupon rate of 4.8 percent and a zero coupon bond. Your company’s tax rate is 25 percent. Both bonds will have a par value of $1,000. |
b-2. | What if you issue the zeroes? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567.) |
c. | Calculate the aftertax cash flows for the first year for each bond. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567.) |