Yahoo now providing free ISS Corporate Governance ratings on Yahoo. On the PROFILE page for a company.
E.g. Pfizer Inc's Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-May-05 is better than 66.3% of S&P 500 companies and 96.6% of Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology companies.
Reference: online.wsj.com
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Corporate-Governance Scores
By JANE J. KIM
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 10, 2005
Individual investors now have access to free corporate-governance ratings from Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. on Yahoo Inc.'s personal-finance Web site.
ISS's ratings evaluate the strengths, deficiencies and risks of a company's corporate-governance practices. The ratings, which cover more than 7,500 publicly traded companies world-wide, including about 5,500 U.S. companies, were launched in 2002 and previously available only to institutional clients. ISS is a Rockville, Md., company that provides proxy vote recommendations to more than 1,200 institutional and corporate clients.
The scores should give investors more information to help evaluate their investments since, according to ISS, companies with strong corporate-governance practices are less risky. Companies with strong corporate-governance practices share similar practices, says Randall Hancock, general manager of ISS's Global Research business.
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