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Cost of Debt Jones, Inc has one outstanding bond issue, which has twelve years remaining to...

Cost of Debt

Jones, Inc has one outstanding bond issue, which has twelve years remaining to maturity and a coupon rate of 2.325%. Interest payments are made semi-annually, the firm’s tax rate is .35, and the bonds are currently trading at $1,021.00.

  1. What is the yield to maturity on the bonds?

  2. Ignoring flotation costs, what is the firm’s cost of debt (before tax)?

  3. What is its after-tax cost of debt?

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Answer #1

using excel rate function

Yield to maturity =

RATE(number_of_periods, payment_per_period, present_value, [future_value], [end_or_beginning], [rate_guess]) * number of compounds per year

= RATE(24,2.325%*1000/2,-1021,1000) * 2

= 2.13%

before tax cost of debt = 2.13%

after tax cost of debt = 2.13% * (1-0.35)

= 1.39%

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