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Charles Fishman
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AES Reports Flat 2Q Earnings; Raising Fair Value Estimate Driven by Strong sPower Performance

We are increasing our fair value estimate to $13 per share from $12 per share after AES reported flat 2018 second-quarter EPS but indicated it had signed 1,473 MW of long-term renewable energy power purchase agreements year to-date that are scheduled to achieve commercial operation by 2020. PPAs signed in the first quarter were only 868 MW.
sPower, a utility-scale solar energy developer acquired by AES in 2017, signed the bulk of these commercial and industrial PPAs in the U.S. The acquisition i...
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AES Corporation

AES is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates a portfolio of electricity generation and distribution businesses. The first business line is generation, where the company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The second business line is utilities, where the company owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial and governmental sectors within a defined service area. In certain circumstances, the company's utilities also generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

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Charles Fishman

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