If a United States Savings bond can be purchased for $29.50 and has a maturity value...
A $1,000 United States Treasury bond with a maturity date 20 years from now and a coupon rate of 5 percent has a required rate of return of 5 percent. Calculate the value of the bond if annual interest rate payment are in force. Show your data inputs. Strip the bond into an interest only bond and a face value only bond. That is, create a bond that has only the present value of the interest payments and one that...
A $100 par value bond has the following features: Term to maturity is 25 years. Annual coupon rate is 5%. The yield on the bond is an annual effective interest rate of 8%. Calculate the percentage of the 6th coupon payment used to pay interest.
Can you show your work or calculator steps? A 40-year maturity bond has a 7% coupon rate, paid annually. It sells today for $90742. A 30-year maturity bond has a 6.5% coupon rate, also paid annually. It sells today for $919.5. A bond market analyst forecasts that in five years, 35-year maturity bonds will sell at yields to maturity of 8% and that 25-year maturity bonds will sell at yields of 7.5%. Because the yield curve is upward-sloping, the analyst...
Bond X is noncallable and has 20 years to maturity, a 10% annual coupon, and a $1,000 par value. Your required return on Bond X is 11%; if you buy it, you plan to hold it for 5 years. You (and the market) have expectations that in 5 years, the yield to maturity on a 15-year bond with similar risk will be 9.5%. How much should you be willing to pay for Bond X today? (Hint: You will need to...
Time value - An Iowa state savings bond can be converted to $250 at maturity 5 years from purchase. If the state bonds are to be competitive with U.S. savings bonds, which pay 3% annual interest (compounded annually), at what price must the state sell its bonds? Assume no cash payments on savings bonds prior to redemption. Ignore taxes. Question: The state must sell its bonds for $? (Round to the nearest cent.)
What is the value of a bond that has an annual coupon of 12%, a maturity of 5 years and the market yield is currently at 8%? What is the value of a bond that has an annual coupon of 7%, a maturity of 10 years and the market yield is currently at 8%? What is the value of a bond that has an annual coupon of 8%, a maturity of 15 years and the market yield is currently at...
Suppose that a company issues a bond with a coupon of 4% paid annually. The bond has a maturity of 30 years and a yield to maturity of 7%. An investor purchased this bond at a fair price and holds the bond for 1 year.If the yield to maturity at the end of bond’s life changes to 8%, what will be the rate of return that this investor is going to earn at the end of year 1?The fair price...
Consider a coupon bond with two years left to maturity. It has a face value of $1000 and a coupon rate of 6%. Assume that all investors believe that the first coupon, to be received one year from today, will be paid but that there is only a 60% probability that the second coupon and the principal will be paid two years from today. There is a 40% chance that the investor will receive only $700 at the end of...
4 years ago you purchased a 13 year maturity, 2.4% coupon annual pay bond at a price of $101 per $100 of face value. Shortly after you purchased the bond, yields changed to 7.79%. If you sell the bond today at a price of $92 per $100 of face value, what is your annualized holding period return?
3 years ago you purchased a 12 year maturity, 3.4% coupon annual pay bond at a price of $93 per $100 of face value. Shortly after you purchased the bond, yields changed to 5.04%. If you sell the bond today at a price of $105 per $100 of face value, what is your annualized holding period return?