Investment Intelligence Meets ESG Analysis
In the modern investment landscape, there is no shortage of information available to help potential investors find opportunities. With historical data, analyst insights, and fundamental analysis available from multiple sources, investors may even have too much information available, making it difficult to filter out the noise and find valuable recomendations.
But even in that reality, many investors today aren’t just concerned with the profitability of a company or its potential for healthy returns. Rather, many people are looking for investment opportunities that are in line with their values, not just their bottom line.
This trend has taken shape alongside the rise of sustainable businesses. Today, sustainability is seen as a vital interest for companies. It means that a company should be able to succeed without leaving a detrimental impact on the environment and society.
To measure how a company performs in this regard, ESG analysis has emerged as a vital tool. This metric evaluates companies on three important areas: Environmental, Social, and Governance. Through this method, investors can gain a greater understanding of the way a company operates and how its being managed, and ultimately whether it is operating in a sustainable way that has a positive impact on the environment and society.
For BridgeWise, bringing this information to investors was an important goal for us, but we wanted to present ESG analysis to end users in a way that applies the investment intelligence principles that we bring to all of our solutions: agile and action oriented insights.
Meet BridgeWise Investment Intelligence for ESG
Our ESG solution leverages industry leading sources of ESG data, and marries that with a unique investment intelligence solution designed to help investors understand how companies rank on these important metrics.
Investment intelligence goes far beyond basic market research. It’s based on three core principles: agile data sources, filtering data for relevance, and action-oriented delivery of insights. It’s an approach that puts the investor experience first and is focussed on helping make decisions about potential investments that are right for them.
In the case of ESG, this means making these important measurements friendly and approachable and easy to understand at a glance. BridgeWise ESG starts with industry trusted ESG rating sources. The solution then normalizes these scores in comparison to other companies within the same industry sector, making it easy to understand how a company ranks in comparison to others in that space.
Helping Investors Make Decisions
BridgeWise ESG helps investors understand a company’s ESG score with easy-to-understand comparisons and reports. It starts with a highly-readable summary of the company’s score that uses plain language to make the results easy to understand.
The solution also provides a glanceable matrix that provides a simple visualization of how a company performs and the individual factors that underpin its performance in the underlying categories.
ESG Reports in Action
In April, the world marked Earth Day, an important occasion to reflect on how companies are performing in regards to ESG. To mark the occasion, we gathered a list of public companies that have a significant impact on the Earth’s resources, including energy and mining companies.
With BridgeWise ESG, it’s easy to access each company’s score and see how it performs in comparison to its peers.
Take Newmont (NEM), a leading gold mining company that we reviewed in our Earth Day post for example. The company receives an industry score of 93/100, ranking 2nd in its category. From a quick glance, a leading factor in that ranking is the fact that it leads its category in governance factors.
From the matrix, we can see that it has high scores across all the factors in this category.
All of this information is presented in a light, and quickly accessible format, making it easy for potential investors to include these factors in their decision making process.
To discover more about BridgeWise investment intelligence solutions, including ESG, sign up for a demo today.
