Suppose your company needs to raise $40 million and you want to issue 20-year bonds for this
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Suppose your company needs to raise $40 million and you want to issue 20-year bonds for this purpose. Assume the required return on your bond issue will be 5.7 percent, and you’re evaluating two issue alternatives: a 5.7 percent semiannual coupon bond and a zero coupon bond.
Your company’s tax rate is 21 percent.
a. How many of the coupon bonds would you need to issue to raise the $40 million? How many of the zeroes would you need to issue?
b. In 20 years, what will your company’s repayment be if you issue the coupon bonds? What if you issue the zeroes?
c. Based on your answers in parts (a) and (b), why would you ever want to issue the zeroes? To answer, calculate the firm’s aftertax cash outflows for the first year under the two different scenarios. Assume that the IRS amortization rules apply for the zero coupon bonds.
A coupon or coupon payment is the annual interest rate paid on a bond, expressed as a percentage of the face value and paid from issue date until maturity. Coupons are usually referred to in terms of the coupon rate (the sum of coupons paid in a...
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Essentials of Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-1260013955
10th edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan