Investment Profiles
Stock Profile: Chipotle Mexican Grill
In the broad landscape of fast food — largely dominated by fried and processed food — the fast-casual food company Chipotle Mexican Grill stands out as a pioneer in cleaner options with a priority on sustainable agricultural practices at comparative…
Impact Profile: Iroquois Valley Farmland Rooted in Regeneration Notes
Justin Butts, farmer at Black Wind Farm (New York) – photo by Courtney Yates
Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT was founded in 2007 with a mission to expand the amount of organic farmland across the United States by addressing one of…
Impact Profile: Oweesta Corporation
Oweesta Corporation is a Native community development financial institution (CDFI) that plays an essential role in catalyzing the flow of capital to Native communities across the United States. As part of Clean Yield’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work, in 2022…
Gettin’ Rolling with Shimano
Shimano Inc. is a Japan-based maker of cycling components, fishing tackle, and rowing-related equipment. Cycling components represent approximately 80% of sales, and fishing tackle 20%. “Other,” which includes rowing components, represents less than 1%. The company has two manufacturing facilities…
Company Profile: Organon (OGN)
Organon is a pharmaceutical company focused on women’s health that spun off from Merck in June 2021. Since the spinoff, Organon has acquired additional reproductive treatments, including a treatment for pre-term labor, another for postpartum hemorrhaging, potential treatments for endometriosis…
Profile: Telia Company
Telia Company, headquartered in Sweden, is the market-leading digital communications provider to the Nordic and Baltic countries. Like other major telecom companies, in recent years it has expanded from providing voice telephone service to wireless voice and data, and fixed-line,…
Profile: SJW Corp
SJW Corp. (SJW) is water utility that is based in San Jose, California. Like other publicly owned utilities, the company has been diversifying to reduce its climate, economic, and regulatory risks.…
Company Profile: Vital Farms
In the current massively overvalued stock market environment, it has been far more difficult than usual to find stocks that meet our investment and social criteria. We recently, however, found a new consumer staples stock that seems to offer an…
SunCommon Merger is a Bright Spot
In September, we received the news that SunCommon, a private solar company (and Certified B Corp) that we first invested in back in 2013, would be acquired by iSun, a publicly traded, Vermont-based company. While SunCommon focuses on residential and…
Amalgamated Financial: A Bank You Can Love
Social research analysts are known to say with some frequency that “there is no perfect company.” Every company, no matter how wonderful, has imperfections. And while Amalgamated Financial Corp. (ticker AMAL) is no exception, we find ourselves unusually excited about…
Reduce, Consume, Compost
Food waste is a significant and avoidable contributor to climate change. According to the USDA, up to 40% of the U.S. food supply is wasted. That waste mostly ends up in landfills, where it produces methane – a powerful greenhouse…
Impact Profile: Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT (IQVF)
Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT (IQVF) is a farmland finance company that works with mission-driven investors to provide land security to organic and regenerative farmers through long-term leases (74% of total assets), mortgages (22%), and lines of credit (4%). The company…