Alcoa sold $575 million of convertibles on March 18 with a 5.25percentt coupon and a conversion price of 23 percent above the price at which it also sold new shares that same day.
Convertible bonds can be devised with any degree of equity-like or bond-like behavior to them, depending on the coupon and the conversion terms.
The government mailed out 64 million $40 coupons for DTV conversion.
The 20-year bonds carry a 3.125 percent coupon and a $21.75 conversion price, a 26percentt premium.
is the coupon rate, is the conversion ratio for converting the bond into the stock of the firm, is the call price of the firm, is the face value of the bond with, and is just B-S operator (see [8]), (1.2). where,, and are positive constants and represent the risk-free interest rate, the volatility, and the dividend rate of the firm stock, respectively.
The convertible preferred, with a coupon of 8.75percentt, had a conversion feature with no assured premium.
It is uncommon to find a convertible with such a high coupon rate and such a low conversion premium (27% worst case, 2% best case), given that the issue has until February 2009 before it converts.
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