Shares of the country’s biggest electric utility Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais (CIG), or CEMIG, have fared far worse.
It has given up almost 35% of its value since the start of September
and now trades at 4.7 times the company’s trailing 12 months’ earnings
and less than 1 times sales. At these levels, the American depositary
receipt (ADR) yields more than 7%.
CEMIG has also added transmission infrastructure and
renewable-energy resources in late October, securing antitrust approval
to buy half of a giant 676.2-megawatt wind farm.
With a debt-to-assets ratio of 31.7%, excessive leverage isn’t a
problem, either. Rather, CEMIG’s stock is cheap because of what
Brazilian regulators may do to address the hydropower-dependent
country’s worst drought in 80 years. (more)
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