Evaluates the annual yield of a security that pays interest at maturity.

settlement—The date on which payment is made to settle a trade. For a more detailed discussion on dates see Chapter 8, Working with Date/Time Data in the PV‑WAVE User’s Guide.

maturity—The date on which the bond comes due, and principal and accrued interest are paid. For a more detailed discussion on dates see Chapter 8, Working with Date/Time Data in the PV‑WAVE User’s Guide.

issue—The date on which interest starts accruing. For a more detailed discussion on dates see Chapter 8, Working with Date/Time Data in the PV‑WAVE User’s Guide.

rate—Interest rate at date of issue of the security.

price—Price per $100 face value of the security.

basis—The method for computing the number of days between two dates. It should be 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.

result—The annual yield of a security that pays interest at maturity. If no result can be computed, NaN is returned.

Double—If present and nonzero, double precision is used.

Function YIELD_MATURITY computes the annual yield of a security that pays interest at maturity.

It is computed using the following:

In the equation above, DIM represents the number of days in the period starting with the issue date and ending with the maturity date. DSM represents the number of days in the period starting with the settlement date and ending with the maturity date. A represents the number of days in the period starting with the issue date and ending with the settlement date. B represents the number of days in a year based on the annual basis.

In this example, YIELD_MATURITY computes the annual yield of a security that pays interest at maturity which is selling at $95.40663 with the settlement date of August 1, 2000, the issue date of July 1, 2000, the maturity date of July 1, 2010, and the interest rate of 6% at the issue using the US (NASD) 30/360 day count method.

settlement = VAR_TO_DT(2000, 8, 1)

maturity = VAR_TO_DT(2010, 7, 1)

issue = VAR_TO_DT(2000, 7, 1)

rate = .06

price = 95.40663

basis = 1

PRINT, YIELD_MATURITY(settlement, maturity, issue, $

   rate, price, basis)

; PV-WAVE prints: 0.0673905