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Most corporate bonds contain a call provision, which gives the issuing corporation the right to call the bonds for redemption.4 The call provision generally states that the company must pay the bondholders an amount greater than the par value if they are called. The additional sum, which is termed a call premium, is often set equal to one year’s interest if the bonds are called during the first year, and the premium declines at a constant rate of INT/N each year thereafter, where INT
annual interest and N
original maturity in years. Read the rest of this entry »

Floating rate debt is popular with investors who are worried about the risk of rising interest rates, since the interest paid on such bonds increases whenever market rates rise. This causes the market value of the debt to be stabilized, and it also provides institutional buyers such as banks with income that is better geared to their own obligations. Banks’ deposit costs rise with interest rates, so the income on floating rate loans that
they have made rises at the same time their deposit costs are rising. The savings and loan industry was Read the rest of this entry »

Although all bonds have some common characteristics, they do not always have the same contractual features. For example, most corporate bonds have provisions for early repayment (call features), but these provisions can be quite different for different bonds. Differences in contractual provisions, and in the underlying strength of the companies backing the bonds, lead to major differences in bonds’ risks, prices, and expected returns. To understand bonds, it is important that you understand the following terms. Read the rest of this entry »

A bond is a long-term contract under which a borrower agrees to make payments of interest and principal, on specific dates, to the holders of the bond. For example, on January 3, 2003, MicroDrive Inc. borrowed $50 million by issuing $50 million of bonds. For convenience, we assume that MicroDrive sold 50,000 individual bonds for $1,000 each. Actually, it could have sold one $50 million bond, 10 bonds with a $5 million face value, or any other combination that totals to $50 million. In any event, MicroDrive received the $50 million, and in exchange it promised to make annual interest payments and to repay the $50 million on a specified maturity date. Read the rest of this entry »

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The response to the Ford offering revealed that investors had a strong appetite for large bond issues with strong credit ratings. Larger issues are more liquid than smaller ones, and liquidity is particularly important to bond investors when the direction of the overall market is highly uncertain. Read the rest of this entry »

During the summer of 1999 the future course of interest rates was highly uncertain. Continued strength in the economy and growing fears of inflation had led to interest rate increases, and many analysts were concerned that this trend would continue. However, others were forecasting declining rates—they saw no threat from inflation, and they were more concerned about the economy running out of gas. Because of
this uncertainty, bond investors tended to wait on the sidelines for some definitive economic news. At the same time, companies were postponing bond issues out of fear that nervous investors would be unwilling to purchase them. Read the rest of this entry »

• The relevant risk of an individual asset is its contribution to the riskiness of a welldiversified portfolio, which is the asset’s market risk. Since market risk cannot be eliminated by diversification, investors must be compensated for bearing it.
• A stock’s beta coefficient, b, is a measure of its market risk. Beta measures the extent to which the stock’s returns move relative to the market. Read the rest of this entry »

In this chapter, we described the trade-off between risk and return. We began by discussing how to calculate risk and return for both individual assets and portfolios. In particular, we differentiated between stand-alone risk and risk in a portfolio context, and we explained the benefits of diversification. Finally, we developed the CAPM, which explains how risk affects rates of return. In the chapters that follow, we will
give you the tools to estimate the required rates of return for bonds, preferred stock, and common stock, and we will explain how firms use these returns to develop their costs of capital. As you will see, the cost of capital is an important element in the firm’s capital budgeting process. The key concepts covered in this chapter are listed below. Read the rest of this entry »

Before closing this chapter, we should note that volatility does not necessarily imply risk. For example, suppose a company’s sales and earnings fluctuate widely from month to month, from year to year, or in some other manner. Does this imply that the company is risky in either the stand-alone or portfolio sense? If the earnings follow seasonal or cyclical patterns, as for an ice cream distributor or a steel company, they
can be predicted, hence volatility would not signify much in the way of risk. If the ice cream company’s Read the rest of this entry »