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Daily Brief ESG: How Far Has Corporate Governance Progressed in 2021? (1) ~ Key Actions Section and more

In today’s briefing:

  • How Far Has Corporate Governance Progressed in 2021? (1) ~ Key Actions Section

How Far Has Corporate Governance Progressed in 2021? (1) ~ Key Actions Section

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Shareholder returns, including dividend policy and treasury stock retirement/buyback and growth policies improved slightly. Still, cash allocations are weak in both shareholder returns and growth, so cash is piling up.
  • The policy shareholdings is decreasing year by year, but the holdings is so large that they still account for a large % of total assets, so cash is piling up.
  • Companies with ROEs above 12% achieved even higher returns, and Tobin’s Q1.2-1.4 companies (with higher valuations than average) increased slightly. Investors may have valued companies that exhibit higher returns.

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