Identifying the variables that positively or negatively impacts a company`s cost of capital or, in general way, a country`s cost of capital has been the objective of much research published in the academic environment in the last few years. This research has as a final objective determine if companies with investment grade in countries without investment grade have a cost of capital higher than investment grade companies in countries with investment grade. Upon analyzing the data, we see that, in emerging countries, the cost of capital had changed in a positive way to the companies that were raised to investment grade although the country is not an investment grade yet.