Question

Perpetual Life Corp. has issued consol bonds with coupon payments of $50. (Consols pay interest forever and never mature. They are perpetuities.)a. If the required rate of return on these bonds at the time they were issued was 5.0%, at what price were they sold to the public

Answer 1

Answer: $1,000

Explanation:

The price of a perpetual bond is calculated like a perpetuity and this is calculated by dividing the coupon payment of the bond by the prevailing required rate of return.

Price of this bond is:

= Coupon payment / Required return

= 50 / 5%

= $1,000