1. Zang international Chinese chemical company has a 15% annual coupon interest rate on a $1,000 par value bond with 20 years left to maturity. Bonds of same maturity now sell to yield 11% return.
(a) How much would you be willing to pay for one of these bonds today? Why?
(b) If the bond is selling for $ 1,141 what is the yield to maturity?
(C) Explain why some bonds sell at a premium over par value while other bonds sell at a discount. What do you know about the relationship between the coupon rate and the YTM for premium bonds? What about for discount bonds? For bonds selling at par value?
2. John's company's just paid a dividend of $2.40 per share on its stock and the dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of 5% per year. If the required rate of return on this stock is 12%, what is value of this stock?
3. Thomas Brothers stock is selling for $6.25 per share and it is expected to pay a $.50 per share dividend at the end of the year. The dividend of the stock is expected to grow at a constant rate of 7% per year. What is expected rate of return on the stock ?
4. Johnson Manufacturing is expected to pay a dividend of $1.25 per share at The End of the year (D1 = $1.25). The stock sells for $32.50 per share, and its required rate of return is 10.5%. The dividend is expected to grow at some constant rate, g, forever. What is the equilibrium expected growth rate? Please show formula and show steps by steps how you got the answer.