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Price of bonds
Category: Business and Money > Finance Asked by: gofigure99-ga List Price: $4.00 |
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23 Jan 2005 20:01 PST
Expires: 22 Feb 2005 20:01 PST Question ID: 462259 |
A company has $1000 par value bond outstanding that pays 11% annual interest. The current yeild to maturity on such bonds is the market is 14%. What is the price of the bonds for a maturity date of 30 years and 15 years. |
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Re: Price of bonds
Answered By: elmarto-ga on 25 Jan 2005 06:34 PST Rated: |
Hi again gofigure99! As a11634-ga mentioned, the price of the bond with 15-year maturity is $815.73 and the price of the bond with 30-year maturity is $789.92. Here is the explanation. Recall that the price of the bond is the present discounted value of the flow of coupon payments plus the present value of the face value of the bond at the maturity date. The discount rate we should use to get the price of the bond is the yield to maturity. Now, since the face value of the bond is $1000 and it pays 11% annual interest, the coupon payment is $110 at the end of each year (11% of $1000). So the formula we should solve for the 15-year bond is: P15 = 110/(1.14) + 110/(1.14)^2 + ... + 110/(1.14)^15 + 1000/(1.14)^15 The formula we should solve for the 30-yr bond is thus very similar: P30 = 110/(1.14) + 110/(1.14)^2 + ... + 110/(1.14)^30 + 1000/(1.14)^30 You can either take the time to calculate the values of P15 or P30 manually, or you can just use an online bond calculator. You can find one at Bond Price Calculator http://www.investopedia.com/calculator/BondPrice.aspx Just plug in the values of your problem into this calculator [remember that "Redemption Value" should be the same as face value, $1000. Settlement date is any date and Maturity date is Settlement date plus 15 or 30 years]. You'll get: P15 = $815.73 P30 = $789.92 I hope this helps! Best wishes, elmarto |
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Re: Price of bonds
From: a11634-ga on 24 Jan 2005 01:58 PST |
price of bond for maturity date of 15 and 30 years are $815.73 and $789.92 respectively. Assume that pmt 1 a year |
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Re: Price of bonds
From: gofigure99-ga on 24 Jan 2005 10:52 PST |
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