{"id":216757,"date":"2018-09-15T21:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T21:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/fin-515-week-4-problem-set\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:01:22","slug":"fin-515-week-4-problem-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-515-week-4-problem-set\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN 515 Week 4 Problem Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bonds-1. Interest on a certain issue of bonds is paid annually with a coupon rate of 8%. The bonds have a par value of $1,000. The yield to maturity is 9%. What is the current market piece of these bonds? The bonds will mature in 5 years.\tBonds-2. A certain bond has 12 years left to maturity. Interest is paid annually at a coupon rate of 10%. The bonds are currently selling for $850. What is their YTM?\tBonds-3.\u00a0 A certain bond pays a semiannual coupon rate at a 10% annual rate. The bond has a par value of $1,000. There are eight years to maturity. The yield to maturity is 9%. What is the current price of the bond?\tBonds-4. A particular corporate bond has a par value of $1,000. Coupon payments are $40 and are paid twice a year. Seven years are left on the life of the bond.The YTM is 9%. What is the price of the bond?\tBond-5. A given bond has 5 years to maturity. It has a face value of $1,000. It has a YTM of 5% and the coupons are paid semiannually at a 10% annual rate. What does the bond currently sell for?\tBond-6. A given bond has five years left to maturity. Interest is paid annually and the annual coupon rate is 9%. The par value of the bond is $1,000. The bond currently sells for $1,000. What is the yield to maturity?\tChapter 9 (pages 303&#8243;\ufffd203):\t1.Assume Evco, Inc., has a current price of $50 and will pay a $2 dividend in 1 year, and its equity cost of capital is 15%. What price must you expect it to sell for right after paying the dividend in 1 year in order to justify its current price?\t5.NoGrowth Corporation currently pays a dividend of $2 per year, and it will continue to pay this dividend forever. What is the price per share if its equity cost of capital is 15% per year?\t6.Summit Systems will pay a dividend of $1.50 this year. If you expect Summit&#8217;s dividend to grow by 6% per year, what is its price per share if its equity cost of capital is 11%?\t7.Dorpac Corporation has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Dorpac&#8217;s equity cost of capital is 8%, and its dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate.\ta.\u00a0What is the expected growth rate of Dorpac&#8217;s dividends?\tb.\u00a0What is the expected growth rate of Dorpac&#8217;s share price?\t12.Procter &#038; Gamble will pay an annual dividend of $0.65 1 year from now. Analysts expect this dividend to grow at 12% per year thereafter until the fifth year. After then, growth will level off at 2% per year. According to the dividend-discount model, what is the value of a share of Procter &#038; Gamble stock if the firm&#8217;s equity cost of capital is 8%?\tA certain bond pays a semiannual coupon rate at a 10% annual rate. The bond has a par value of $1,000. There are eight years to maturity. The yield to maturity is 9%. What is the current price of the bond?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonds-1. Interest on a certain issue of bonds is paid annually with a coupon rate of 8%. The bonds have a par value of $1,000. The yield to maturity is 9%. 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