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Conejo Co

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  • This topic has 7 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 2 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • September 30, 2019 at 4:52 pm #547689
    sarah06
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    Dear sir, i dont understand on why 1,320 is considered as shares capital? Because when the 1320/11=120 and why $10*120?

    Thanking you in advance

    October 1, 2019 at 7:56 am #547726
    John Moffat
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    They are buying back shares for $1320M at the current share price of $11. Therefore they will buy back (and cancel) 1320M/11 = 120M shares.

    When shares are cancelled, then (as per financial accounting rules) the share capital is reduced by the nominal value (which is $1 per share, and so a total of $120M) and the remaining $1,200M (1320 – 120) is subtracted from the reserves.

    February 2, 2022 at 10:51 am #647952
    fatimarashed8
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    Hello
    I do not understand how they have calculated Macaulay duration for fixed annual payments, especially the annuity factor part. why have they calculated the annuity factor of 3.57% the d.f is based on the government bond yield. its very confusing please help me

    February 2, 2022 at 3:57 pm #647985
    John Moffat
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    I am not sure which part of the answer you are asking about.

    I assume you are clear how the 3.57% has been calculated as being the coupon rate (i.e. the rate of interest on the nominal value).

    However a company choose the repay its borrowing (whether to repay just the principal over the period and then all the interest at the end, or whether to pay the interest each year and the principal at the end, or any combination) then the PV of all of the repayments when discounted at the coupon rate will always be equal to the amount originally borrowed.

    Here, they are paying an equal amount each year (covering both interest and the principal) and so if the amount each year is X then the PV of the payments is X x the annuity factor and this must be equal to the original amount borrowed.

    Therefore X (the repayment each year) multiplied by the annuity factor at 3.57% must be equal to the amount borrowed. So X is equal to the amount borrowed divided by the annuity factor.

    February 3, 2022 at 6:23 pm #648059
    fatimarashed8
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    Yes, I understood that, sorry for not being clear before but why the annuity factor of 3.57%, why not the annuity factors of any of the govt bond yield?

    February 4, 2022 at 7:43 am #648080
    John Moffat
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    Because 3.57% is the coupon rate (the fixed interest on nominal) that will need to be paid on the new bond.

    May 17, 2023 at 12:25 pm #684503
    thaarsini
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    Good day sir, may i know why the answer has mention a line in the report area under IMPACT OF CONEJO CO that coupon rate for new bond is lower than existing bond is because the interest rate is lower so they dont have to issue higher coupon rate…
    May i know how the concept work sir….
    Is it like if the market interest rate is offering a return of (5%) then coupon rate needs to be higher(6%) to attract bondholders to buy their bond, since maybe in the question the market rate is already low(3.4% example), so conejo dont have to issue much higher coupon rate to attract bondholders to buy them?

    This is because bondholders will compare and see whether conejo is giving higher return or the market interest rate is higher by the bank?

    May 17, 2023 at 4:10 pm #684517
    John Moffat
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    The coupon rate on the new bond has to be the rate that investors require, which will take into account the government bond yield curve and the credit spread for the risk class of the bond..

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