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Daily Brief ESG: Example Supporting that Disclosure of Improvement Plans and Their Effectiveness Are Separate Matters and more

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  • Example Supporting that Disclosure of Improvement Plans and Their Effectiveness Are Separate Matters


Example Supporting that Disclosure of Improvement Plans and Their Effectiveness Are Separate Matters

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Standard Market contains many companies with small market capitalizations and low trading liquidity, so there aren’t many companies in the Standard Market that institutional investors can consider as investment targets.
  • Standard Market has more companies with P/B below 1x and ROE below 8%, but there’s little difference between Prime Market and Standard Market in their improvements over past two years.
  • Whether companies disclosed improvement plans in response to the TSE’s request does not necessarily correlate with improvements in their P/B ratio or ROE.

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