High valuations and shareholder returns come with substantial benefits for corporate treasury and finance departments. Understanding the determinants of market value can help get them there.
Data privacy and protection might be of increasing importance to regulators, investors and clients but most organizations don't currently include such topics in their ESG planning—including law firms.
Investors' interest in companies' ESG performance, and in ESG-focused investment options, may be pivotal in convincing organizations to take sustainability issues seriously.
Twice as many loss-making firms raised capital last year as did profitable ones, giving many companies additional liquidity to weather investors' tighter purse strings this year.
Despite pausing its annual meeting for an entire hour, during which executives allegedly called shareholders and pressured them to change their vote, Exxon Mobil gained two climate activists as new board members.
Some oil majors will pay down debt, some will focus on returning cash to shareholders. All are expected to neglect capex, perhaps to the detriment of their business's long-term prospects.