Methodology

To qualify a company must be publicly traded on a major global exchange and have a minimum market capitalization of $1 billion USD as of December 31st, of the current Fiscal Year. Companies must produce a publicly available Sustainability or Corporate Responsibility Report (CSR) with full year environmental, social, governance (ESG) data for their calendar year before October 31st.

Companies that meet the criteria are force-ranked by total value calculated as the average of four performance dimensions: financial, environmental, social and governance. Each dimension consists of five key performance indicators with underlying quantitative and qualitative performance metrics (either numeric or Boolean) that are aligned with the latest iteration of The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index:

In the event of a tie, the company with the higher total average environmental, social, governance (ESG) score receives the higher rank. All underlying data is provided by Justmeans.com and is tied to source documents. Companies have the option to work with Justmeans analysts to update data. Derived values, scores, and ranks were provided by CRD Analytics.

Justmeans reserves the right to remove any companies that are involved in a significant public crisis without notice.