Trust Across America (TAA) \u00a0has set a standard for measuring\u00a0trustworthy business behavior through our FACTS analysis,\u00a0combining financial and non-financial metrics.\u00a0TAA has been tracking the performance of the top companies based on our five FACTS drivers- Financial stability, Accounting conservativeness, Corporate integrity,Transparency and Sustainability.<\/p>\n
Our proprietary research and external back-test of our universe of almost 3000 public companies confirm that the most trustworthy companies provide long-term benefits to all stakeholders, including shareholders. In November, 2010, our data selected 59 companies that met\u00a0our \u201cGold Standard\u201d of trustworthy business behavior.\u00a0 The chart (link)\u00a0below is a graphic representation of the performance of this group of companies since 1999 vs. the S&P 500.<\/p>\n
![Gold Company Performance<\/a><\/p>\nThese Gold Standard companies are outperforming the S&P 500 by over 500% since 1999, and by approximately 35% since we began tracking them in November 2010.<\/p>\nThis\u00a0group contains many “household” names like Aflac, Fed Ex, Lexmark and Cigna. Others are not so well known- Albemarle, Praxair, Teco Energy and Lubrizol, which was recently acquired by Berkshire Hathaway.<\/p>\nBut whether well known or unknown, they all share a common characteristic. They have adopted a culture of trustworthy business that benefits all stakeholders, including shareholders.<\/p>\nSo while the news\u00a0continues to be filled with stories about the lack of trust in business, companies actually can do good and be profitable at the same time.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/li> <\/a><\/li> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trust Across America (TAA) \u00a0has set a standard for measuring\u00a0trustworthy business behavior through our FACTS analysis,\u00a0combining financial and non-financial metrics.\u00a0TAA has been tracking the performance of the top companies based on our five FACTS drivers- Financial stability, Accounting conservativeness, Corporate integrity,Transparency and Sustainability. Our proprietary research and external back-test of our universe of almost 3000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Graph-for-WordPress-6111.jpg\"){kind=link}