An investor is considering the purchase of a $1000 par value bond with an 8% coupon rate (with interest paid semiannually) that matures in 5 years. If the bond is priced to yield 6%. What is the bonds current price?
Period | Cash Flow | Discounting
Factor [1/(1.03^year)] |
PV of Cash
Flows (cash flows*discounting factor) |
1 | 40 | 0.970873786 | 38.83495146 |
2 | 40 | 0.942595909 | 37.70383637 |
3 | 40 | 0.915141659 | 36.60566637 |
4 | 40 | 0.888487048 | 35.53948192 |
5 | 40 | 0.862608784 | 34.50435138 |
6 | 40 | 0.837484257 | 33.49937027 |
7 | 40 | 0.813091511 | 32.52366045 |
8 | 40 | 0.789409234 | 31.57636937 |
9 | 40 | 0.766416732 | 30.65666929 |
10 | 40 | 0.744093915 | 29.7637566 |
10 | 1000 | 0.744093915 | 744.0939149 |
Price
of the Bond = Sum of PVs |
1085.302028 |
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