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Price a coupon bond with dated spot factors

An annual 5-coupon, 100-principal bond has value approximately 97.502864 under the stated 4%, 5%, 6% annual spot curve.

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Expand coupon plus redemption

The promised payments are 5, 5 and 105 in years one, two and three. The annual spot rates apply to cumulative horizons from today. This differs from discounting each single year at its corresponding spot percentage.

Evaluate every dated term

Original spot valuation
YearDiscount expressionPV
15 / 1.044.807692
25 / 1.05²4.535147
3105 / 1.06³88.160025
TotalSum of the three PVs97.502864

Check the last payment

The final coupon must not be omitted or added a second time. Using 100 instead of 105 in the final row understates value by 5D3. Adding a separate year-three coupon when the final row already contains 105 overstates it by the same amount.

Report the conditional price

The result assumes fixed payments, annual effective rates and today’s valuation date. No credit spread, optional redemption or accrued-interest adjustment is supplied. It is a teaching price under the stated curve, rather than a quotation for a named issuer.

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