Aes Case Essay

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2. If Venerus implements the suggested methodology, what would be the range of discount rates that AES would use around the world? Use the information given for the 15 sample projects to answer this question. Based on the facts of 15 sample projects in different countries in the world, in order to calculate the range of discount rates around the world, we should find the highest and lowest WACC in 15 samples, which should be the WACC of USA and WACC of Argentina, because USA has the highest credit rating and Argentina has the lowest credit rating in 15 sample projects. First of all, We must find out the leveraged betas for Red Oak in USA and for Caracoles in Argentina using the equation in page 7: Leveraged beta=unleveraged beta/(E/V). Unleveled beta can be found in exhibit 7b,which is 0.25 for Red Oak, because it is contract generation project and 0.5 for Caracoles, since it is a competitive supply project. Debt to Capital Ratio is 39.5% for USA and 40.8% for Pakistan. Using all the information I get, we can calculate the leveraged beta for USA is 0.413 and for Pakistan is 0.845. Second, Cost of Equity should be found. Cost of Equity is different for different countries, but it uses US risk free rate and risk premium rate because all debt is financed in USD. Risk free rate is 4.5%, which is 10 year US Treasury Bond, US risk premium is 7%. Using the equation: Cost of Equity =risk free rate +leveraged beta* US risk Premium, we have the cost of equity of Red Oak is 0.07393, the cost of equity of Caracoles is 0.1041. Third, Cost of Debt=Risk free rate+ Default Spread. Both USA and Argentina have the same spread of 3.57%, therefore both yield the same cost of debt of 8.07%. However this data does not make sense given the vast differences in the markets structure of each country, the political risk. To adjust for these factors, the sovereign spread must be

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