Board Composition and Corporate Governance
Organization, leadership, composition, elections, and anti-takeover policy.
ESGAUGE Insight
Benchmark Corporate Disclosure with Precision
Real-time, auditable data across governance, compensation, sustainability, and shareholder activity — organised into nine libraries and linked back to the filing every value came from.
Trend · Board Composition and Corporate Governance
FY2020–FY2024
Board gender diversity — share of board seats held by women
- Subject company
- Industry peer group
- Russell 3000
Sourced directly from company filings and reports.
Fully auditable with citation-linked disclosures.
Updated continuously as new filings are released.
What the platform does
Four things a disclosure dataset has to get right
Insight was built for the work advisors actually do: establishing what peers do, showing how practice is moving, and being able to defend every number in the room.
Identify gaps
Pinpoint disclosure weaknesses vs. peers and market benchmarks — including the fields where a company says nothing at all.
Track trends
Monitor emerging governance and ESG practices across industries, with multi-year series for a company, its peer group and a broad index.
Accelerate analysis
Replace manual document review with structured data and screening tools — a question that took a week of reading proxies resolves in a session.
Verify sources
Direct links to SEC filings, reports and company documents for full auditability — every coded value traces to the document it came from.
Inside the platform
Screen a universe, benchmark a peer set, open the filing
Pick a library, narrow the universe, and read the fields side by side. Select a company and every value in the detail panel carries its provenance with it.
The screening view below reflects the working shape of the platform: nine libraries in the rail, filters across the top, results in tabular figures, and the source document one click away.
Illustrative
Data libraries
| Company | Board size | Independent | Avg tenure | Say-on-pay | Pay ratio | CEO comp $M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northmont BiosciencesNBSC | 11 | 81.8% | 6.4 | 94.2% | 212:1 | 14.8 |
| Calder InstrumentsCDRI | 9 | 77.8% | 8.1 | 88.6% | 168:1 | 11.2 |
| Verity Grid SystemsVGRD | 12 | 83.3% | 5.2 | 96.1% | 241:1 | 17.6 |
| Ashfield MaterialsASHM | 10 | 80.0% | 9.7 | 71.4% | 155:1 | 9.4 |
| Pelham DiagnosticsPLHD | 8 | 75.0% | 4.8 | 91.3% | 130:1 | 8.1 |
| Marchwood EnergyMWEN | 13 | 84.6% | 7.3 | 62.8% | 287:1 | 19.3 |
| Sable Ridge FinancialSBRF | 11 | 90.9% | 6.9 | 97.4% | 198:1 | 13.5 |
| Peer median | 11 | 81.8% | 6.9 | 91.3% | 198:1 | 13.5 |
7 companies · 34 fields selected · FY2024
Illustrative interface. Company names, tickers and figures are for demonstration only and do not describe any real issuer.
The nine data libraries
Structured, auditable disclosure data — organised into nine libraries
Each library preserves its full chapter and section structure. Every data field ESGAUGE tracks is published, organised exactly as it appears in the platform.
Director Compensation
Pay elements, equity, ownership, limits, and deferred compensation.
CEO and Executive Compensation
CEO and NEO pay, incentive design, pay versus performance, say-on-pay.
IPO Compensation and Stock Plan Design
Equity dilution, ESPP, executive pay, and pre/post-IPO board compensation.
Executive Employment Termination & CIC Provisions
Termination terms, cash severance, and treatment of equity awards.
CEO and Executive Demographics and Succession
Succession rates, CEO profiles, departing and incoming CEOs, placement.
Corporate Environmental Disclosures
Climate, emissions, energy, waste, water, biodiversity, and assurance.
Human Capital Management (HCM) and Social Disclosures
Diversity, pay equity, health & safety, ethics, labor, and giving.
Shareholder Voting and Activism
Shareholder and management proposals, say-on-pay, proxy contests, N-PX.
Fields extend beyond one row per issuer: compensation and demographic data are also available for key C-suite roles disclosed as NEOs, and severance terms are tracked across each termination scenario separately.
Coverage universe
Thousands of companies, across three jurisdictions
Peer sets are built from index membership, so a benchmark can move from a named industry group to a broad market universe without leaving the screen.
Russell 3000United States
S&P 500United States
S&P MidCap 400United States
S&P SmallCap 600United States
S&P/TSX CompositeCanada
FTSE 350United Kingdom
S&P Europe 350Europe
Coverage across the Russell 3000, S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600, Canada's S&P/TSX Composite, the U.K.'s FTSE 350, and S&P Europe 350.
Methodology & auditability
Every value can be traced back to the document it came from
The point of a disclosure dataset is not that it is large. It is that a partner can put a number in front of a board and show exactly where it was written down.
Primary sources only
Data is sourced directly from company filings and reports — proxy statements, annual reports, sustainability reports, and N-PX filings — rather than aggregated from third parties or modelled.
Coded to a published taxonomy
Analysts code documents into standardised fields organised by library, part and section. The full field structure is published, so coverage can be checked before a subscription starts.
Citation-linked
Each coded value carries the filing it was taken from. Direct links to SEC filings, reports and company documents make a screen defensible line by line.
Continuously updated
The dataset is updated continuously as new filings are released, so proxy-season work runs against current disclosure rather than a static annual snapshot.
How a single value is traced
Source document
DEF 14A · 28 Mar 2025
Library · part
01 · Part VII — Anti-takeover
Coded field
Poison pill trigger
Value
15.0%
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