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Daily Brief ESG: Ways Should Be Explored to Make Companies More Effective in Disclosing Their Cost of Capital and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Ways Should Be Explored to Make Companies More Effective in Disclosing Their Cost of Capital


Ways Should Be Explored to Make Companies More Effective in Disclosing Their Cost of Capital

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Recognizing the cost of capital and return on capital is an important factor in determining business strategy, but not many companies disclose their cost of capital and specific management vision.
  • In order to increase the effectiveness of disclosure of the cost of capital, we should consider changing the Corporate Governance Code to require disclosure by prime market listed companies.
  • JPX Prime 150 Index, which is based on “equity spreads,” has begun to be calculated, but it has’t attracted much attention since its performance doesn’t differ from that of TOPIX.

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