Government bonds are considered one of the safest bond investments as the face value and
coupon value of your bond will always be preserved and paid to you in correct time by the government.
With corporate / municipal bonds you normally get interest paid to you as income, and
the coupon value of the bond at maturity (unless you sell it sooner — for less or more).
Not exact matches
estimate
of annual income from a specific security position over the next rolling 12 months; calculated for U.S. government, corporate, and municipal
bonds, and CDs by multiplying the
coupon rate by the face
value of the security; calculated for common stocks (including ADRs and REITs) and mutual funds using an Indicated Annual Dividend (IAD); calculated for fixed rate
bonds (including treasury, agency, GSE, corporate, and municipal
bonds), CDs, common stocks, ADRs, REITs, and mutual funds when available; not calculated for preferred stocks, ETFs, ETNs, UITs, international stocks, closed - end funds, and certain types
of bonds
Consider, for simplicity, a 30 - year zero -
coupon bond with a face
value of $ 100.
An owner - occupied house is a zero -
coupon bond of unknown maturity and unknown par
value, that for many buyers requires borrowing on margin, and has steep transaction and carrying costs.
For example, a
bond with a
value of $ 100 and a
coupon rate
of 20 % might have a bid price that's $ 110 or $ 115.
It's the outcome
of a complex calculation that includes the
bond's present
value, yield,
coupon, and other features.
The lower the interest rates in the economy, the higher the present
value of the zero -
coupon bond, and vice versa.
For example, a total return
of 20 % means the security increased by 20 %
of its original
value due to a price increase, distribution
of dividends (if a stock),
coupons (if a
bond) or capital gains (if a fund).
Because yield to maturity is the interest rate an investor would earn by reinvesting every
coupon payment from the
bond at a constant interest rate until the
bond's maturity date, the present
value of all the future cash flows equals the
bond's market price.
A federal government
bond might be described as having a face
value (or par
value)
of $ 10,000, a
coupon of 3 % and a term to maturity
of five years.
PS: If there were more
coupons, say a 20 year quarterly
bond, it would speed things up to use the Present
Value of an Annuity formula to discount all the
coupons in one step...
That is because at the maturity
of the
bond it will converge to its maturity
value which will be independent
of the change
of the interest rates (although on the middle
of the life the price
of the
bond will go down, but the
coupon should remain constant - unless is a floating
coupon bond --RRB-.
For example, a
bond with a face
value of $ 1,000 that pays $ 100 per year has a nominal yield or
coupon rate
of 10 %.
Yields on zero
coupon bonds are a function
of the purchase price, the par
value and the time remaining until maturity.
Upon maturity, a zero
coupon bondholder receives the face
value of the
bond.
At the same time, these 10 companies have issued 362 individual securities that are held in the Global Aggregate, and there are a dizzying array
of factors that determine the relative
value of each
of these
bonds, including currency, maturity,
coupon, liquidity, and structure, just to list a few.
If the
bond has face
value $ 1100 five years from now and is sold by the issuer for $ 1000 today, then it is not a
coupon bond in the usual sense
of the word (and it does not have a 10 %
coupon) but rather it is a zero -
coupon or original issue discount
bond.
The yield
of an instrument such as a
bond is the ratio
of its
coupon (payment) to its Par
value (price / face
value).
the
coupon is based on the par
value of 100 but the
bond is currently trading at 102.
To expand on @DilipSarwate's comment regarding your first bullet point, if the original face
value for the
bond is $ 1000, it has a maturity
of five years and a
coupon rate
of 10 %, then each
of those five years you will receive $ 100 (10 %
of $ 1000) and at the end
of the five years you will receive $ 1000 back, for a total outlay
of $ 1000 and a total income
of $ 1500, netting you $ 500.
To understand why, imagine a five - year
bond with a face
value of $ 1,000 that pays a 4 % rate
of interest (or
coupon), which is $ 40 annually.
Conversely, if conditions improved, or under the same conditions ACME company issued
bonds with a higher
coupon / rate
of return, the market might well bid the price
of the
bond up from its PAR / issuing
value, resulting in a lower yield.
Annual
coupon payments will, therefore, be 5 % x $ 1,000 face
value of corporate
bond = $ 50.
The theoretical fair
value of a
bond is calculated by discounting the present
value of its
coupon payments by an appropriate discount rate.
Bond investors identify a bond's value in terms of its yield, generally the coupon rate divided by the market pr
Bond investors identify a
bond's value in terms of its yield, generally the coupon rate divided by the market pr
bond's
value in terms
of its yield, generally the
coupon rate divided by the market price.
Calculating the
value of a
coupon bond factors in the annual or semi-annual
coupon payment and the par
value of the
bond.
Simply multiply the
coupon by the face
value of the
bond to determine the dollar amount
of your annual interest payments.
Bond valuation, in effect, is calculating the present value of a bond's expected future coupon payme
Bond valuation, in effect, is calculating the present
value of a
bond's expected future coupon payme
bond's expected future
coupon payments.
The higher interest rate in the economy decreases the
value of the
bond since the
bond is paying a lower interest or
coupon rate to its bondholders.
The reason the balance sheet is still valuable is, as you said, it potentially provides a margin
of safety so that if you missed the
coupon calculation, you can still get back the «par
value»
of the
bond.
The
value of zero
coupon bonds is more sensitive to changes in interest rates however, so there is some risk if you need to sell them before their maturity date.
The
coupon interest rate
of the
bond (multiply this by the par or face
value of the
bond to determine the dollar amount
of your annual interest payments)
A zero
coupon bond, on the other hand, is sold at a discount from its face
value and the issuer makes no interest payments during the life
of the security.
The
coupon rate
of a
bond is calculated using the par
value.
a debt security issued by a private corporation; interest is taxable and is generally paid according to a
coupon rate set at the time the
bond is issued; generally have a face
value of $ 1,000 and a specific maturity date
the dollar amount
of all interest earned on government and corporate debt obligations and short - term certificates
of deposit, as well as interest earned from cash in a brokerage account; for
bond ladders it represents the estimated annual income that will be received from the securities that make up the rung; the income is calculated by multiplying the
coupon rate by the quantity
of bonds (face
value)
For example, a zero -
coupon bond with a face
value of $ 5,000, a maturity date
of 20 years, and a 5 % interest rate might cost only a few hundred dollars.
the interest rate a
bond's issuer promises to pay to the bondholder until maturity, or other redemption event, generally expressed as an annual percentage
of the
bond's face
value; for example, a
bond with a 10 %
coupon will pay $ 100 per $ 1000
of the
bond's face
value per year, subject to credit risk; when searching Fidelity's secondary market fixed income offerings, customers can enter a minimum
coupon, maximum
coupon, or enter both to specify a range and refine their search; when viewing Fidelity's fixed - income search results pages, the term «Step - Up» instead
of a numeric
coupon rate means the
coupon will step up, or increase over time at pre-determined rates and dates in the future; clicking Step - Up will reveal the step - up schedule for that security
Usually on a fixed -
coupon bond (e.g. Government
bond) the interest rate is fixed for a given period (say 10 years), and if market rates rise the face
value of the
bond falls, to compensate for the lower return a new buyer would get, compared to the market interest rate.
So as interest rates rise, the face
value of the
bond remains steady because the
coupon rate on the FRN rises too.
Most older
bonds trade at a premium these days, which means they are priced above face
value because their
coupons are higher than those
of newly issued
bonds.
The high
coupon rates
of long - term
bonds might be tempting, but since inflation can wipe out the
value of these payments, it is not advisable to invest all
of your funds in them.
The
bond investment grade is assigned after assessing the potential
of the
bond and the
bond issuer and depicts how likely and reputed the
bond issuer is when it comes to the interest (
coupon) payment and also the repayment
of the principal face
value amount once the
bond maturity period is completed.
Take the example
of a 10 year
bond with a par
value of $ 100, which pays out a 5 %
coupon rate (i.e. $ 5) each year.
Zero
coupon bond - a
bond that pays no interest during the life
of the
bond, but is instead sold at a deep discount from its
value at maturity
Step one is to buy a zero
coupon US Treasury
bond due November 2011 with a face
value of $ 10,000.
For example, if the face
value of the
bond you purchased is $ 1000 and the
coupon rate percentage
of your
bond is 5 %, then the annual interest you are paid for the
bond is $ 50.
A
Coupon is the annual interest amount in percentage that you will be receiving for the Face
Value of the
bond.
For example, if you purchased a
bond of $ 1000 with a
coupon value of 5 %, then the annual interest paid to you is $ 50 (0.05 x 1000).