{"id":18530,"date":"2018-02-21T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/?p=18530"},"modified":"2018-04-02T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:12:33","slug":"barrons-100-most-sustainable-companies-with-calvert-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/barrons-100-most-sustainable-companies-with-calvert-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Barron\u2019s 100 Most Sustainable Companies (with Calvert Research)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"landing-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/march-2018-issue\/\"> &gt;&gt; Back to March 2018 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Every weekday, instead of a private car, Benno Dorer takes Bay Area Rapid Transit from San Francisco to Clorox\u2019s headquarters in Oakland. The Clorox CEO buys sustainable products, including his company\u2019s Brita water filters, and separates his trash diligently, teaching his children to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>For a company best known for a toxic product\u2014bleach\u2014Clorox has become one of America\u2019s greenest companies, publishing goals on greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, phasing out controversial substances, and adding lines of natural products like Burt\u2019s Bees. <em>\u201cAs a CEO, I don\u2019t think I can be credible without walking the walk,\u201d<\/em> Dorer says. <em>\u201cAt the end of the day, the company\u2019s commitment to sustainability starts with the CEO.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/212189234\/inarticle --><\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1622053269469-0' class=\"ad-float-left\" style=\"height: 250px; width: 300px;\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1622053269469-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Sustainability is mission-critical to Clorox, which ranks No. 9 in Barron\u2019s first annual list of most sustainable companies. The investing world is increasingly agreeing with Dorer\u2019s public-spirited views, as it redefines its roles as a fiduciary and steward of capital. The issue exploded onto center stage this year, when CEO Larry Fink of BlackRock, the world\u2019s largest asset manager, told companies in which the firm invests that they need to <em>\u201cnot only deliver financial performance, but also show how [they] make a positive contribution to society\u2026benefit[ing] all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in this spirit that Barron\u2019s offers our first ranking of the most sustainable companies in the U.S. We have always aimed to provide information about what keenly interests investors\u2014and what affects investment risk and performance. The term \u201csustainability\u201d doesn\u2019t have a single definition, but for years now, European investors have looked at environmental, social, and governance factors\u2014qualitative measures that people believe promote a company\u2019s long-term health and growth prospects. Thus, what began as an expression of values is finding wider currency as good corporate practices. That view has made its way to the U.S., as Fink\u2019s letter makes abundantly clear.<\/p>\n<p>And more U.S. investors are signing the United Nations guidelines that commit to incorporating ESG criteria. Last year, Paul Smith, chief of the CFA Institute, wrote: <em>\u201cConsensus is emerging in many countries that it is asset managers\u2019 fiduciary duty to incorporate ESG factors into their financial analysis, especially when material to a company\u2019s long-term prospects.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To create our ranking, we turned to a sustainable-investing stalwart: <strong>Calvert Research and Management<\/strong>, an arm of Eaton Vance (EV). Calvert ran one of the first U.S. socially responsible mutual funds and has been applying ESG factors to company research for decades. <em>\u201cWhat\u2019s essential for investors, the planet, and communities is that sustainability work be done in a way that works within our capitalist system,\u201d<\/em> says Calvert CEO John Streur. In other words, peeking at our list doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re eschewing capitalism. Cisco Systems tops the list, followed by Salesforce.com, Best Buy, Intuit, HP Inc., Texas Instruments, Microsoft, Oshkosh, and, after Clorox, Xylem.<\/p>\n<p>To Ascertain Sustainability, Calvert began by taking the 1,000 largest publicly held companies by market value, with headquarters in the U.S., as of Dec. 31. It excluded real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships because their sustainability data remain uneven. Then, Calvert looked at 300 performance indicators for each company from data providers including Institutional Shareholder Services, Sustainalytics, and Thomson Reuters Asset4 in five categories: shareholders, employees, customers, planet, and community. The shareholders category included items like accounting policies and board structure; employees, workplace diversity and labor relations; customers, business ethics and product safety; planet, greenhouse-gas emissions; and community, human rights along the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/212189234\/InArticle002 --><\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1622053479374-0' class=\"ad-float-left\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1622053479374-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Then came the secret sauce: For every category, Calvert\u2019s analysts ranked the companies from zero to 100. (Many sustainable investors exclude weapons manufacturers or gun makers; Calvert included such companies, but they generally have low rankings.) Then, the analysts adjusted the weighting of each category for how material it was for each industry. For example, the planet category is more material for chip makers, which use a lot of water in manufacturing, than it is for banks. Each company then got a weighted average score.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article and see the chart of the 100 most sustainable companies with stock symbols here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/barrons-100-most-sustainable-companies-1517605530\">https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/barrons-100-most-sustainable-companies-1517605530<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Article by Leslie P. Norton, Barron\u2019s <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;&gt; Back to March 2018 Issue Every weekday, instead of a private car, Benno Dorer takes Bay Area Rapid Transit from San Francisco to Clorox\u2019s headquarters in Oakland. The Clorox CEO buys sustainable products, including his company\u2019s Brita water filters, and separates his trash diligently, teaching his children to do the same. 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