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Daily Brief ESG: Engagement Keeps Widening the Profitability Gap Between the Top and Bottom Companies in Market Cap and more

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  • Engagement Keeps Widening the Profitability Gap Between the Top and Bottom Companies in Market Cap


Engagement Keeps Widening the Profitability Gap Between the Top and Bottom Companies in Market Cap

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Companies with larger market capitalizations tend to have higher profitability and valuations, and those companies have higher foreign ownership.
  • Given that board practices improved and that valuations, highly correlated with foreign ownership, are higher for companies with larger market capitalizations, this can be due to engagement of overseas investors.
  • If this hypothesis is correct, the gap between the top and bottom market capitalization companies will widen further as it takes a certain time for engagement to pay off.

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