Case Study on Yield To Maturity (YTM)

Business Scenario

You are working as a Fixed Income Analyst at an investment advisory firm. A client is looking to invest in debt instruments and wants to understand which bonds can provide the best return for their investment while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.

As part of your analysis, you have been assigned to evaluate different bond instruments available in the market. Your first responsibility is to understand how bond prices influence investor returns and why yields change when bond prices fluctuate. Next, you will calculate the Yield to Maturity (YTM) of selected bond instruments to determine the actual return an investor can expect if the bond is held until maturity.

Using bond market data and real bond instruments listed on the NSE Debt Market, you will analyze bond returns, compare investment opportunities, and develop insights that can help investors make informed fixed-income investment decisions.

investor can expect if the bond is held until maturity.

Pre-Lab Preparation

Topic : Debt Instruments

1) What is a bond

2) Government and corporate bonds

3) Zero coupon and floating rate bonds.

4) Equity vs debt financing

5) Basic bond pricing intuition

Task 1: Understanding Yield and Bond Price Relationship

One of the most important concepts in fixed income markets is:

When Bond Prices Increase → Yields Decrease

When Bond Prices Decrease → Yields Increase

This relationship drives trading decisions in bond markets worldwide.

Assume a Government Bond:

Particular	Value
Face Value	₹100
Coupon Rate	8%
Annual Coupon	₹8

Case 1: Bond Trading at ₹100

Yield = 8/100 = 8%

Case 2: Bond Trading at ₹120

Yield = 8/120 = 6.67%

Case 3: Bond Trading at ₹80

Yield = 8/80 = 10%

Activity

Calculate Yield for the following bonds:

Formula

Current Yield = Annual Coupon ÷ Market Price

Face Value	Coupon	Market Price
100	7	95
100	7	105
100	9	120
100	9	80
100	6	90

Task 2: Calculating and Analyzing Yield to Maturity (YTM)

In the previous lab, you calculated the coupon income generated by a bond using its coupon rate and face value.

However, coupon income alone does not represent the actual return earned by an investor because bonds may be purchased at prices different from their face value.

The actual return from a bond depends on:

Coupon Payments
Current Market Price
Face Value
Remaining Years to Maturity

This comprehensive measure of return is known as Yield to Maturity (YTM).

Go to the visual studio code official website

Use the following formula to estimate Yield to Maturity:

YTM≈Annual Coupon Payment+Face Value - Market PriceYears to MaturityFace Value + Market Price2YTM≈2Face Value + Market PriceAnnual Coupon Payment+Years to MaturityFace Value - Market Price

Where:

Parameter	Meaning
Annual Coupon Payment	Interest received annually
Face Value	Principal repaid at maturity
Market Price	Current purchase price of the bond
Years to Maturity	Remaining life of the bond

Analyze a Real Bond Instrument

Using a bond selected from the NSE Debt Market, consider the following example:

Parameter	Meaning
Issuer	REC Limited
Face Value	₹1,000
Coupon Rate	8.71%

Parameter	Meaning
Annual Coupon Payment	Interest received annually
Market Price	₹950
Years to Maturity	2 Years

Calculate Annual Coupon Payment

Annual Coupon Payment

= Face Value × Coupon Rate

= ₹1,000 × 8.71%

= ₹87.10

(Face Value−Market Price)/Years to Maturity

= (1000−950)/2

= Rs.25

Calculate Annual Capital Gain Component

=(Face Value+Market Price)/2

=(1000+950)/2

= Rs. 975

Calculate Average Investment

YTM=(87.10+25)/975

YTM=11.50%

Calculate Approximate YTM

=(Face Value+Market Price)/2

=(1000+950)/2

= Rs. 975

Although the bond pays a coupon rate of only 8.71%, the investor earns an approximate YTM of 11.50% because the bond was purchased below its face value.

Activity

Using the NSE Debt Market, identify:

1 Government Security (G-Sec)
1 Private Corporate Bond

Collect the required information and calculate the approximate Yield to Maturity (YTM).

Complete the table below.

Security Name	Issuer Category	Face Value (Rs)	Market Price (Rs)	Coupon Rate (%)	Annual Coupon Payment (Rs)	Years to Maturity	ApproxYTM (%)
REC Bond	PSU / Government-Backed	1,000	950	8.71	87.10	2	11.50
	G-Sec
	Private Corporate

Task 3: Calculating and Analyzing Yield to Maturity (YTM)

In the previous lab, you calculated the coupon income generated by a bond using its coupon rate and face value.

Task 1: Understanding BRD

Before you start building anything, you need to clearly understand what the client actually wants.So, let’s begin by understanding the BRD (Business Requirement Document) shared by the client.

BRD Full Form is Business Requirement Details.BRD like a plan for building a house. This plan helps the builder understand what to build.In the same way,BRD tells developers what the client wants to build

Click to download BRD : BiteBox_BRD.pdf

Activity

After going through BRD list down the Core Features and Web Pages in the tabulated Format as shown Below.

Col 1	Col 2	Col 3
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3

Formula

Profit = Revenue - Cost

Task 2: Create WireFrame

Now that you understand the requirements, don’t jump into coding yet. Before development, we always visualize the layout.

Now lets create a simple wireframe for the homepage.

A wireframe is like a layout plan of a house. Before building, you decide where rooms, doors, and windows will be placed.Similarly, a wireframe helps you plan where elements like headers, images, and buttons will appear on a webpage—before adding design or colours.

Task 3: Code Editor Installation

Good work on completing the planning phase.

Now we will start development. Before that, make sure your system is ready with the required tools.

In this step we will install the VS code editor that will help to Write code efficiently,Organize files , Run and test your application

Go to the visual studio code official website

Click to download Homepage Wireframe : Homepage Wireframe

Link - https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Choose your operating system(windows / Mac) and download the installation file.

Double click on the download app and Accept the agreement and click next

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted

Sub Steps

Double click on the download app and Accept the agreement and click next

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        int y = 20;
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public class MathSample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int x = 10;
        int y = 20;
        int sum = x + y;
        
        System.out.println("The sum is: " + sum);
    }
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public class MathSample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int x = 10;
        int y = 20;
        int sum = x + y;
        
        System.out.println("The sum is: " + sum);
    }
}

Great job!
You have successfully completed your first lab on BiteBox Project Onboarding.

In this lab, you have: Understood the BRD, Created a wireframe, Set up your development environment, Organised your project structure, Run your first program

You are now ready to move to the next stage of development

Checkpoint

Next-Lab Preparation

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