Cosmic Communications Inc. is planning two new issues of 25-year bonds. Bond Par
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Question
Cosmic Communications Inc. is planning two new issues of 25-year bonds. Bond Par will be soldat its $1,000 par value, and it will have a 10% semiannual coupon. Bond OID will be an Original
Issue Discount bond, and it will also have a 25-year maturity and a $1,000 par value, but its
semiannual coupon will be only 6.25%. If both bonds are to provide investors with the same
effective yield, how many of the OID bonds must Cosmic issue to raise $3,000,000? Disregard
flotation costs, and round your final answer up to a whole number of bonds.
Please HELP!
Explanation / Answer
Solution:
price of OID bond:
Total yield of Bond Par:
-=25 years with 10% semiannually = 25 * 2 * 0.1 * 1 000 (bond nominal) = 5 000
-returning the bond = 1 000
=> total yield = 1 000 + 5 000 = 6 000
Yield effectiveness of Bond Par
= total yield / bond price (for Bond Par bond price is equal to bond nominal),
for Bond Par i=
6 000 / 1 000 = 6
Total yield of OID bond:
-25 years with 6.25% semiannually
= 25 * 2 * 0.0625 * 1 000
= 3 125
returning the bond = 1 000
so Total yield
= 1 000 + 3 125
= 4 125
Now Yield effectiveness of OID bond
= 4 125 / OID bond price
, the effectiveness of Bond Par and OID bond are equal,
so 4 125 / OID bond price
= 6, OID bond price = 687.5
Now to raise 3 000 000 Cosmic must issue:
3 000 000 / 687.5 = 4 337 bonds Ans
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