Kap 6-9 Flashcards
- What is ESG short for?
Environmental, social, governance
- Give two examples of environmental criteria in ESG.
1, the energy a company takes in and the waste it discharges.
2, The consequences for living beings.
The legal environment it has to encounter
- What two factors are most common when discussing social criteria in ESG?
1, The relationships a company has.
2, The reputation the company fosters with people and institutions the communities in which is does business.
Answer: Relationships and reputation
- What is governance?
Explanation: Governance is the internal system of practice, controls, and procedures a company adopts in order to govern itself, make effective decisions, comply with the law, and meet the needs of external stakeholder.
Answer: System of practices, controls and procedures
- What was the conclusion relating to cost reductions by the help of ESG, in research conducted by McKinsey.
It can reduce costs as much as 60 percent, such as reducing raw materials, cost of water, cost of carbon.
- What key-ratios are normally used to group companies into “growth” or “value”?
Market-to-book and P/E
- How is a growth company defined?
High P/E and high market-to-book.
- What did the authors found in the group growth companies, relating to return on capital?
Growth stocks tend to have high ROIC and value stocks low
- What return to shareholders have U.S equities delivered the past 200 years?
Consistent returns to shareholders of about 6,75% annually.
6,75%
- How large part of the shareholder return in the US have come from cash yield and from share appreciation, respectively?
Share price appreciation 3-3,5%, cash yield 3,25-3,75%
- What has been the average pay-out ratio in the US?
50-60%
- How has the p/e-ratio been affected by high inflation?
It has lowered the P/E
- What is the relationship between high market value to earnings and ROIC?
The higher ROIC, the higher MV/earnings
- Why does companies with a high intensity in share repurchase programs, also in general have high shareholder value creation?
Companies with higher return on capital and growth tend to pay-out more cash to
shareholders.
- What is the SCP-structure and which researcher developed the structure further in the beginning of the eighties?
The model explains how strategy, competitive advantage and share prices are linked