Call Provision

  

See Call Protection. The call provision is just the details and fine print that tell you whether the issuer can call a bond early (and how they can do that).

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Finance: What is Forced Conversion?58 Views

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Finance allah shmoop what is forced conversion Okay this is

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forced conversion Yeah this is also forced conversion and so's

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this Yeah that is the issuer of this particular bond

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Like the company who borrowed money has the right as

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described in the indenture to force you to convert the

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bond either into and say twenty five shares of common

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stock or something else Which sort of implies that a

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stock price the over under price of breaking evens about

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forty bucks a share takes you get that thousand dollars

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divided by the twenty five shares Think it's you forty

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bucks a share or the issuer or company who sold

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the bond in the first place can simply call the

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bond and force converted into cash for the small conversion

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premium of ah two point five percent or that's twenty

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five bucks in this thousand dollars par value bond So

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in this sense essentially the break even Numbers actually 41

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dollars a share not forty there because you get an

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extra little premium bump there if they force you to

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convert the bond or debt into equity Got it We'll

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force conversion in a bond sense is usually something cos

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do when they can either refinance the bond at cheaper

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interest rates or are doing so well operationally that they

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have enough cash Teo just retire their debt They call

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it back They buy it back save the interest charges

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and quick cash toe work doing something else Either way

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