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Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

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<ul><li>WTR Sustainable Index: During the week ended January 20, 2023, the WTR Sustainable Index outperformed the broader market, rising 3.3% W/W versus the S&amp;P 500 Index (down 0.7%), the Russell 2000 Index (down 1.0%), and the Nasdaq Composite Index (up 0.6%).</li><li>Advanced Transportation Solutions (63% of the index) drove the outperformance, rising 6.4% , while Energy Technology (11% of index) was down 1.5% and Industrial Climate and Ag Technology was down 1.6%.</li><li>Valuation: Based on forward 12-month consensus estimates, the current P/E ratio of the WTR Sustainable index is 24.3x versus 17.9x for the S&amp;P 500.</li></ul>

WTR Sustainable Index: During the week ended January 20, 2023, the WTR Sustainable Index outperformed the broader market, rising 3.3% W/W versus the S&amp;P 500 Index (down 0.7%), the Russell 2000 Index (down 1.0%), and the Nasdaq Composite Index (up 0.6%).Advanced Transportation Solutions (63% of the index) drove the outperformance, rising 6.4% , while Energy Technology (11% of index) was down 1.5% and Industrial Climate and Ag Technology was down 1.6%.Valuation: Based on forward 12-month consensus estimates, the current P/E ratio of the WTR Sustainable index is 24.3x versus 17.9x for the S&amp;P 500.

Weekly Sustainable Investing Surveyor: Week Ended January 20, 2023

Fundamental Short Selling Research

Eric Fernandez, CFA

TwoRiversAnalytics

Equity Bottom-Up

Sprouts Farmers Market / Equity Bottom-Up

Sales declines, margin compression, cuts in SG&amp;A and cuts in guidance and estimates feature in our Declining Businesses model. Declining business shorts tend to be lower beta, have longer time horizons, and tend to produce steadier (although slower) short returns.

Sales declines, margin compression, cuts in SG&amp;A and cuts in guidance and estimates feature in our Declining Businesses model. Declining business shorts tend to be lower beta, have longer time horizons, and tend to produce steadier (although slower) short returns.

Declining Business Short Candidates: Sprouts, Plexus, Ormat, Itron

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Event-Driven

The S&amp;P Global Clean Energy Index is designed to measure the performance of 30 companies from around the world that are involved in clean energy-related businesses, comprising a diversified mix of clean energy production and clean energy equipment and technology companies.There are two ETFs that are benchmarked to the index and these ETFs have seen massive inflows over the last year. This has caused liquidity issues in the underlying stocks and has led to S&amp;P having multiple market consultations to reduce constituent concentration, easy liquidity limitations and improve index replication.The changes due to these market consultations will cause large passive flows on the stocks. A few stocks have moved substantially over the last couple of months but there could be more in store for a few of them.Depending on the which proposals are implemented, one-way turnover for the review could be in the range of 30-50% and there are a lot of stocks that will have more than 10 days of ADV to trade.In this Insight we look at the index, the inflows on the ETFs, the various market consultations and the impact on the stocks that constitute the index and those that could be added to the index in the April rebalance.

The S&amp;P Global Clean Energy Index is designed to measure the performance of 30 companies from around the world that are involved in clean energy-related businesses, comprising a diversified mix of clean energy production and clean energy equipment and technology companies.There are two ETFs that are benchmarked to the index and these ETFs have seen massive inflows over the last year. This has caused liquidity issues in the underlying stocks and has led to S&amp;P having multiple market consultations to reduce constituent concentration, easy liquidity limitations and improve index replication.The changes due to these market consultations will cause large passive flows on the stocks. A few stocks have moved substantially over the last couple of months but there could be more in store for a few of them.Depending on the which proposals are implemented, one-way turnover for the review could be in the range of 30-50% and there are a lot of stocks that will have more than 10 days of ADV to trade.In this Insight we look at the index, the inflows on the ETFs, the various market consultations and the impact on the stocks that constitute the index and those that could be added to the index in the April rebalance.

Global Clean Energy Index: MASSIVE Changes Coming Up; 30-50% One-Way Turnover

United States

Ormat Technologies, Inc. develops and operates renewable energy projects. The Company offers geothermal, recovered energy, and energy management and storage solutions. Ormat Technologies serves customers worldwide.

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Ormat Technologies (ORA US)

Weekly Sustainable Investing Surveyor: Week Ended January 20, 2023

During the week ended January 20, 2023, the WTR Sustainable Index outperformed the broader market, rising 3.3% W/W versus the S&P 500 Index (down...

Water Tower Research

Declining Business Short Candidates: Sprouts, Plexus, Ormat, Itron

Declining Business Short Candidates... Our model list of secular decliners, "melting ice cubes", flawed business model candidates featuring...

Eric Fernandez, CFA

Global Clean Energy Index: MASSIVE Changes Coming Up; 30-50% One-Way Turnover

The huge inflows into ETFs tracking the S&P Global Clean Energy Index have led to many market consultations and there will be massive flows in/out...

Brian Freitas

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