ESG Ratings

How do I interpret the ratings?

Our ESG ratings, found on the Company page the show the respective Environmental, Social and Governance scores for a stock. We use ESG Enterprise for our source of ESG ratings.

Companies are scored out of 1000 in each category, with the Overall category being the combined total of the Environmental, Social and Governance ratings.

Overall ratings:

Score rangeGradeLevel
0-74

D

Low

75 - 149

DD

Low

150 - 224

DDD

Low

225 - 299

C

Low

300 - 449

CC

Low

450 - 599

CCC

Low

600 - 749

B

Medium

750 - 899

BB

Medium

900 - 1199

BBB

High

1200 - 1799

A

High

1800 - 2699

AA

Excellent

2700 - 3000

AAA

Excellent

Environmental / Social / Governance ratings

Score rangeGradeLevel
0-24

D

Low

25 - 49

DD

Low

50 - 74

DDD

Low

75 - 99

C

Low

100 - 149

CC

Low

150 - 199

CCC

Low

200 - 299

B

Medium

300 - 399

BB

Medium

400 - 499

BBB

High

500 - 599

A

High

600 - 899

AA

Excellent

900 - 1000

AAA

Excellent

The higher the score, the better the company has performed in the category. If you don't see an ESG rating for a company, it means we don't yet have the data.

Where do we get our ESG ratings from?

We use ESG Enterprise for our source of ESG ratings.

ESG Enterprise partnered with major financial firms to create ESG rating methodology standards based on world-class data to help investors make informed and accurate decisions regarding investing.

ESG Enterprise provides extensive ESG database service across 50 distinct metrics, covering 90% of the global market.

ESG scores are designed based on company stored data that aids in measuring the organisation’s relative ESG performance, efficiency, and dedication, without bias. ESG Enterprise scores companies on 10 main KPIs: human rights, biodiversity, climate change, human capital and governance, and many more.

The ESG Enterprise ESG scores are cognisant of transparency bias and depend on derived data covering almost all material industry metrics.

Learn more

Want to learn more about ESG investing? Check out our blog posts on ESG investing:

What is ESG Investing?

The rise of ESG

Defining ESG

Greenwashing

Between a mine and a school

The net-zero club

New horizons