Exam 7: Valuing Bonds

A 15-year bond with a 10% coupon has a yield to maturity of 8%. The bond could be called in 4 years and if called would generate a yield to call of 6%. What is this bond's call premium? Assume the coupon payments are made semi-annually and par value is $1,000.

Time to Maturity A bond issued by a corporation on May 1, 1999, is scheduled to mature on May 1, 2019. If today is May 2, 2009, what is this bond's time to maturity? (Assume annual interest payments.)

A 6.5% coupon bond with 12 years left to maturity can be called in 4 years. The call premium is one year of coupon payments. It is offered for sale at $1,190.25. What is the yield to call of the bond? (Assume interest payments are paid semi-annually and par value is $1,000.)

Credit Risk and Yield Rank the following bonds in order from lowest credit risk to highest risk all with the same time to maturity, by their yield to maturity: JM Corporate bond with yield of 12.25 percent, IB Corporate bond with yield of 4.49 percent, TC Corporate bond with yield of 8.76 percent, and B&O Corporate bond with a yield of 5.99 percent.

Which of the following is a legal contract that outlines the precise terms between the issuer and the bondholder?

Bond Quotes Consider the following three bond quotes; a Treasury note quoted at 102:30, and a corporate bond quoted at 99.45, and a municipal bond quoted at 102.45. If the Treasury and corporate bonds have a par value of $1,000 and the municipal bond has a par value of $5,000, what is the price of these three bonds in dollars?

Sally is choosing between two bonds both of which mature in 15 years and have the same level of risk. Bond A is a municipal bond that yields 5.75%. Bond B is a corporate bond that yields 7.75%. If Sally is in the 28% tax bracket, which bond should she select and why?

If Zeus Energy bonds are upgraded from BBB- to BBB+, which of the following statements is true?

Sally is choosing between two bonds both of which mature in 15 years and have the same level of risk. Bond A is a municipal bond that yields 5.15%. Bond B is a corporate bond that yields 7.15%. If Sally is in the 28% tax bracket, which bond should she select and why?

Time to Maturity A bond issued by a corporation on October 1, 2007, is scheduled to mature on October 1, 3007. If today is October 2, 2009, what is this bond's time to maturity? (Assume annual interest payments.)

Which of the following bonds makes no interest payments?

Which of the following issues Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)?

What does a call provision allow the issuer to do, and why would they do it?

Bond Prices and Interest Rate Changes A 6 percent coupon bond with 12 years left to maturity is priced to offer a 6.5 percent yield to maturity. You believe that in one year, the yield to maturity will be 6.25 percent. What is the change in price the bond will experience in dollars? (Assume semi-annual interest payments and $1,000 par value.)

Which of the following terms means that during periods when interest rates change substantially, bondholders experience distinct gains and losses in their bond investments?

Which of these statements is false?

A corporate bond with an 8.5% coupon has 10 years left to maturity. It has had a credit rating of A and a yield to maturity of 10%. The firm has recently gotten into some trouble and the rating agency is downgrading the bonds to BBB. The new appropriate discount rate will be 11.5%. What will be the change in the bond's price in dollars? Assume interest payments are paid semi-annually and par value is $1,000.

An 8% coupon municipal bond has 15 years left to maturity and has a price quote of 98.5. The bond can be called in 6 years. The call premium is one year of coupon payments. Compute the bond's yield to call and determine if the bond will be called. Assume interest payments are paid semi-annually and a par value of $5,000.

TIPS Total Return Reconsider a 3.25% TIPS that was issued with CPI reference of 186.7. The bond is purchased at the beginning of the year (after the interest payment), when the CPI was 197.5. For the interest in the middle of the year, the CPI was 201.1. Now, at the end of the year, the CPI is 202.4 and the interest payment has been made. What is the total return of the TIPS in percentage terms for the year? (Assume semi-annual interest payments and $1,000 par value.)

Which of the following statements is correct?