Chart of the Week: Companies With Fewer Controversies Outperformed in 2020
We take a look at our 2021 ranked companies that had controversies across all of our various stakeholders to show that, unsurprisingly, companies with fewer controversies slightly outperform those with more.
JUST’s Most Popular ESG Features from 2020
Here are five of our most viewed ESG-focused features from 2020.
Watch JUST Capital & NYSE’s Investor Event: Business & Markets as a Force for Good
How companies and investors can lead in building a more just and inclusive economy that works for all Americans.
Companies increasingly face the prospect of needing to incorporate carbon emissions and emission reductions when doing internal cost-benefit analysis for new projects. The chart from Bloomberg Green goes deeper.
ESG Chart of the Week: 2021 JUST 100 Companies Outperform the Market
In light of last week’s analysis of the 2021 JUST Universe specific to return on equity, this week we dive into the new list of companies constituting the JUST 100, our annual list of America’s most just companies.
Chart of the Week: JUST Businesses Have a Higher Return on Equity
We revisit a past Chart of the Week to show that the companies that support their workers continue to outperform the market.
Chart of the Week: JUST Industry Leaders Maintain Their Performance Upside Through the Recovery
In this week’s Chart of the Week, we take a look at the JUST Industry leaders across our universe to examine their strong outperformance in this economic recovery.
We sat down with two of the ESG’s most prominent leaders –John Goldstein, the head of the Sustainable Finance Group at Goldman Sachs and Megan Starr, the Global Head of Impact for The Carlyle Group, to discuss the future of ESG.
Companies that support customers by producing non-harmful and quality products, emphasizing privacy, using fair pricing, offering equal treatment, and more, outperform their competitors by 20.7% .
As Americans Embrace ESG Investing, the Challenges Against It Feel Less Valid Than Ever
Arguments in support of shareholder primacy and against stakeholder capitalism are out of sync with the voice of the American public, institutional investors, shareholders, and corporations themselves.
Chart of The Week: Companies That Prioritize Their Workers Continue to Outperform the Market
In light of Labor Day this past Monday, we revisit a chart from early June to evaluate how companies’ treatment of their workers continues to affect financial performance throughout 2020.
For Labor Day, we revisit our Chart of the Week from earlier this summer to reevaluate how companies who fully disclose their EEO-1 reports have performed throughout the trailing three months.
Chart of the Week: Just Companies Have Better Risk Profiles and Overall Decreased Volatility
This week, we explore the risk profile of more just companies in comparison to less just ones, and show that JUST companies have less volatility.
Chart of the Week: JUST Companies Continue to Outperform Their Competition
This week, we dive into the history of our JUST Rankings and evaluate how America’s Most JUST Companies have performed on a cumulative basis since inception, finding that the top four quintiles as the top quintile has outperformed the bottom quintile by 29.9% cumulatively.
Chart of the Week: Just Companies See Shallower Drawdowns in Market Downturn
As our economy sees increasing uncertainty after the market recovery in Q2, this week’s analysis dives into our 2020 Rankings to evaluate median maximum drawdowns by quintile.
This week we look at severe communities controversies within the companies we cover, and see a significant outperformance for those who don’t have at least one severe controversy.
Chart of the Week: Companies Paying a Fair Wage Outperform Peers in the Downturn
This week, we double down on employee compensation and dive into our “Pays a Fair Wage” metric to showcase how companies’ wages differ across various job titles when compared to industry peers.
Read Our Response to the Department of Labor Proposal We Believe Will Crush Important ESG Momentum
The DOL has stated that ESG funds are “vehicles for furthering social goals or policy objectives that are not in the financial interest of the plan.” We completely disagree – here’s why.
Keeping ESG out of 401(k) Plans Hurts Participants and Produces Worse Outcomes
Last month, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a new investment duties rule that would essentially keep ESG funds out of retirement accounts. Everything I’ve seen throughout my career shows that such a move would hurt investors.
Chart of the Week: Companies Paying a Living Wage Fare Better in Recovery
In this Chart of the Week, we analyze how companies with a high percentage of employees making a national living wage have performed over the trailing one year.
As we prepare our annual rankings, we are considering a new way that companies might reduce their environmental impact – the reduction of air travel.
This week, we take a closer look at the financial impacts of environmental disclosure vs. non-disclosure.
Chart of the Week: Carbon-Efficient Companies Grow Their Operating Income Faster
This week, we evaluate the rate at which carbon-efficient companies grow their operating income over the trailing five-year period.
Chart of the Week: Carbon-Efficient Companies Shine During Insecure Times
In our latest Chart of the Week, we show that a lower carbon footprint can actually be beneficial for a company’s bottom line.
Chart of the Week: Companies with Strong Corporate Governance Lead the Market in a Downturn
As many corporations begin to address the systemic inequity within their own organizations, this week’s chart shows that ethical leadership could connect to financial outperformance.