PG&E Uncertainty Climbing as Camp Fire Burns; Raising Cost of Capital, Cutting Fair Value Estimate
The historic destruction related to the Northern California Camp Fire and the potential for limited capital market access as PG&E's stock price falls has led us to reassess our fire liability valuation, our uncertainty rating, and our cost of capital assumption.We are cutting our fair value estimate for PG&E to $30 per share from $51 and raising our uncertainty rating to Very High. Our decision to raise our cost of capital to 7.0% from 6.2% resulted in a $16 per share cut in our fair va...
PG&E is a holding company that conducts its business through Pacific Gas and Electric Company (Utility), a public utility engaged in the sale and delivery of electricity and natural gas to customers. The Utility generates electricity and provides electric transmission and distribution services throughout its service territory in northern and central California to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. The Utility provides natural gas transportation services to small commercial and residential customers and to industrial, commercial, and natural gas-fired electric generation facilities that are connected to the Utility's gas system in its service territory.
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