Green-Adjusted Share Prices: A Comparison Between Standard Investors and Investors with Green Preferences

We employ the green revenue factors of firms, used in the computation of the FTSE Russell 1000 Green Revenues index to create corresponding green-adjusted share prices. We compute the firm betas, under both the standard and the green-adjusted share pricing. Our findings suggest that tilting of firm stock returns towards green finance could change temporarily asset pricing views. The Fama-French risk factors display very high correlations between the two settings. Nevertheless, there are some significant differences between standard and green-adjusted betas during periods associated with green activism and positive political decisions of financially supporting the global climate action.