Relationship with the financial community
Snam believes that maintaining constant relations with investors and the entire financial community is of strategic importance for its reputation. In this respect, it endeavours to disseminate comprehensive and timely information, capable of effectively representing the business’s strategy and performance, particularly enhancing the dynamics that ensure the creation of value over time.
Snam's presence in sustainability indices
For the tenth year in a row, Snam’s stock is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, the world’s most important stock market index assessing corporate social responsibility.
Snam is once again present in the FTSE4Good, where it has been listed since 2002, an index created by the FTSE Group to encourage investment in companies that meet globally recognised social responsibility standards and is an important point of reference to establish benchmarks and ethical portfolios.
Snam’s listing is confirmed in the Ethibel Sustainability Index (ESI) Excellence Europe and in the Ethibel Sustainability Index (ESI) Excellence Global. Also reconfirmed in the Ethibel PIONEER and in the Ethibel EXCELLENCE Investment Registers: the Forum Ethibel decision indicates that the company can be characterised as an industry leader in terms of CSR.
Snam’s listing has been confirmed for the fourth year running in the two sustainability indices MSCI ACWI SRI Index and MSCI ACWI ESG Leaders, by MSCI, an international leader providing IT tools to support the investment decisions of global investors. The MSCI Global Sustainability indices include companies having high sustainability ratings in their affiliated sectors.
Snam stock, for the ninth year in a row, is included in the STOXX Global ESG Leaders Indices, a group of indices based on a transparent process of selection of performances in terms of sustainability, of 1800 companies listed worldwide.
Snam is included in five of the main ECPI sustainability indexes. Snam’s inclusion in the family of ECPI indices dates back to 2008. The ECPI methodology consists of screening based on testing more than 100 ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) indicators.
ESG Awards
Included, for the sixth year running, among the top scoring companies of the CDP, as one of the leading international non-profit organizations dealing with climate change, which also included it in the A-List.
Snam was also listed, in 2018, for the fifth year running, in the United Nations Global Compact 100 index (GC 100), developed by the United Nations Global Compact with the research firm Sustainalytics, which includes the 100 companies that have distinguished themselves at global level both for attention to sustainability issues and to financial performance, and that adhere to the ten fundamental principles of the United Nations on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption issues.
Snam is confirmed to be included also in 2018 in the (Europe, Eurozone, World) NYSE Euronext Vigeo 120 indices, managed by Vigeo, a leading company at a European level in rating companies with regard to CSR issues.
In 2018, Snam was confirmed at “PRIME” level (with rating B-) by Oekom research, a leading international agency rating socially responsible investments, which operates on behalf of institutional investors and financial services companies.
Snam was also confirmed in the Sustainalytics index, the leading ratings agency for the evaluation of companies from an ESG perspective which the company has been on since 2013.