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2. Suppose a 12% coupon bond sells at par today; and three years from today, the required rate on the same bond is 8%. What is the coupon rate on the bond today and what will it be 3 years from today. What is the par value today and what will it be three years from today?
3. XYZ Corp. needs to raise funds to finance a plant expansion. Mgt. decided to issue 25-year zero coupon bonds to raise the money. The required rate of return is 5%. What will these bonds sell at issuance?
4. ABC Corp. has 6% coupon bonds on the market that have 8 years left to maturity. The bonds make annual payments. If the yield to maturity is 7%, what is the current bond price?
5. What happens to the price of a three-year bond with an 8% coupon when interest rates change from 8% to 6%? How much will it change from par?
6. GHI Corp. has bonds on the market making annual payments, with 15 years to maturity and selling for $1,103.78. At this price the bond’s current yield is 5.44%. What is the coupon rate for this bond?
7. Visit the https://noir.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/keyrates.html site. Write down the current prime rate, 15-year mortgage rate, the 3 month T-Bill rate and the 5-year T-Bond rate (for the USA). Are you surprised?
8. In a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal the following Treasury bond quote was published:
Rate Maturity Mo/Yr Bid Asked Change Ask yield
3 1/8 Apr 09 n 99:25 99:26 -2 3.24

What do these numbers mean?
9. Two years ago bonds were issued with 10 years until maturity, selling at par, and a 7% coupon. If interest rates for that grade of bond are currently 8.25%, what will be the market price of these bonds?







1. What would an investor pay for a stock, if his required rate of return is 12%, the stock next year’s dividend is $3/share, and the dividend is expected to grow at 4%?

2. Better Plastics is a mature manufacturing firm. The company just paid a $4 annual dividend, but management expects to reduce the payout by 3 percent per year, indefinitely. If you require a 12 percent return on this stock, what will you pay for a share today?

3. What should be the current price of a share of stock if a $5 dividend was just paid, the stock has a required return of 20%, and a constant dividend growth rate of 6%?

4. The stock price of Samuelson, Inc. is $71. Investors require a 15 percent rate of return on similar stocks. If the company plans to pay a dividend of $4.20 next year, what growth rate is expected for the company''s stock price?

5. The data you found for GHK Co.’s stock in the paper (an imaginary company).
YTD % change 12-week Stock Div Yld % PE Vol 100s Close Net change
Hi Lo
- 2.7 40.125 15.375 GHK 0.85 10 421 21.75 0.625

a. Fill in the table.
b. What is the company’s earnings/share?
c. What was the stock’s closing price the day before?
d. If 20 trading days have passed since the start of the year, what was the price of the stock on the first trading day?
6. You own 1,250 shares of stock X. You read in the newspaper that the dividend for the stock is 3.88.
a. What did you earn in dividends?
b. The closing price of a stock is 90.25 and the dividend is 3.50. What is the yield of the stock?
c. The closing price of the stock is $66.40 and the net earnings per share are $2.50. What is the stock’s P-E ratio?

8. What is the expected constant growth rate of dividends for a stock currently priced at $50, that just paid a dividend of $4, and has a required return of 6%?

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