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Yield to maturity for a fixed income security.

Syntax

Arguments

All inputs are scalar or NumBonds-by-1 vectors. Dates can be serial date numbers or date strings. Fill unspecified entries in input vectors with NaN. Optional arguments can be passed as the empty matrix [].

Price
(required) Clean price of the bond (current price without accrued interest).
CouponRate
(required) Decimal number indicating the annual percentage rate used to determine the coupons payable on a bond.
Settle
(required) Settlement date. A vector of serial date numbers or date strings. Settle must be earlier than or equal to Maturity.
Maturity
(required) Maturity date. A vector of serial date numbers or date strings.
Period
Coupons per year of the bond. A vector of integers. Allowed values are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12. Default = 2.
Basis
Day-count basis of the bond. A vector of integers.
0 = actual/actual (default), 1 = 30/360, 2 = actual/360,
3 = actual/365.
EndMonthRule
End-of-month rule. A vector. This rule applies only when Maturity is an end-of-month date for a month having 30 or fewer days. 0 = ignore rule, meaning that a bond's coupon payment date is always the same numerical day of the month. 1 = set rule on (default), meaning that a bond's coupon payment date is always the last actual day of the month.
IssueDate
Date when a bond was issued.
FirstCouponDate
Date when a bond makes its first coupon payment. When FirstCouponDate and LastCouponDate are both specified, FirstCouponDate takes precedence in determining the coupon payment structure.
LastCouponDate
Last coupon date of a bond prior to the maturity date. In the absence of a specified FirstCouponDate, a specified LastCouponDate determines the coupon structure of the bond. The coupon structure of a bond is truncated at the LastCouponDate regardless of where it falls and will be followed only by the bond's maturity cash flow date.
StartDate
Date when a bond actually starts (the date from which a bond's cash flows can be considered). To make an instrument forward-starting, specify this date as a future date. If StartDate is not explicitly specified, the effective start date is the settlement date.
Face
Face or par value.

Description

Yield = bndyield(Price, CouponRate, Settle, Maturity, Period, Basis, EndMonthRule, IssueDate, FirstCouponDate, LastCouponDate, StartDate, Face) given NumBonds bonds with SIA date parameters and clean prices, returns the bond equivalent yields to maturity.

Yield is a NumBonds-by-1 vector of the bond equivalent yields to maturity with semi-annual compounding.

Price and Yield are related by the formula:

where the sum is over the bonds' cash flows and corresponding times in units of semi-annual coupon periods.

Example

Compute the yield of a treasury bond at three different price values.

See Also

bndprice, cfamounts



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