(Bond valuation) You own a 20-year, $1 comma 000 par value bond paying 7 percent interest annually. The market price of the bond is $950, and your required rate of return is 9 percent.
a. Compute the bond's expected rate of return.
b. Determine the value of the bond to you, given your required rate of return.
c. Should you sell the bond or continue to own it?
a. Expected return of bond is Yield to Maturity (YTM) of Bond
YTM of this bond is = coupon/Price = 1000*7%/950 = 70/950= 0.0737 or 7.37%
b. Value of bond is its discounted cashflow at present value over the life of bond which is as belos
Therefore, current value of bond is $ 817.43
c. Since the market price of bond is $ 950 but value of bond is $ 817.43 therefore we sould sell the bond
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