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Debt Valuation
and Interest
Rates
Learning Objectives
Principles Used in This Chapter
1.Overview of Corporate Debt
2.Valuing Corporate Debt
3.Bond Valuation: Four Key Relationships
4.Types of Bonds
5.Determinants of Interest Rates
Key Terms
2.50%
2.00%
Interest Rate
Series1
1.50% Series2
Series3
Series4
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
YTM=?
0 1 2 3 11
Years
Cash flow -$900 $65 $65 $65 $1,065
Promised YTM
= {(Interest year 1 + Principal) (Bond Value)} 1
= {($80+$1,000) ($850)} 1
= 27.06%
YTMdefault
= {(Interest year 1 + Principal)} (Bond Value)} 1
= -23.76%
i= 9%
Years 0 1 2 3 20
PV of all
Cash flows
=?
$85 annual
interest $85 interest
+ $1,000
Principal
Bond Value
40
6-month
periods
i= 9%
Periods
0 1 2 3 40
PV=?
$42.50
$42.5 interest
Semiannual
+ $1,000
interest
Principal
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Strategy
Bond Value
= $ 42.5{ 1-(1/(1.045)40] [ (.20)} + $1,000/(1.045)40
Bond
Value
Drops
Priority of Claim
The priority of claim refers to the order of
repayment when the firms assets are
distributed, as in the case of liquidation.
Secured bonds are paid first followed by
debentures; Among debentures, subordinated
debentures have lower priority than secured
debt and unsubordinated debentures.
Abnormal Risk
Coupon Level
Amortizing or Non-Amortizing
Convertibility
= .0679 or 6.79%
Year 0 Year 1
= 0%
Year 0 Year 1
Interest rate of
6.08% solved
in step 3
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Strategy
= .0608 or 6.08%
Amortizing bond
Bond rating
Bond indenture
Call provision
Collateral
Conversion feature
Convertible bond
Corporate bond
Coupon interest rate
Credit spread
Current yield
Debenture
Default premium
Discount bond
Eurobonds
Fisher effect
Fixed rate loan
Floating rate bonds
Floating rate
Inflation premium
Subordinated debentures
Term structure of interest rates
Transaction loans
Unsubordinated debentures
Yield curve
Yield to maturity
Zero coupon bond