5 Most Capitalist Companies in the World

4. Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NASDAQ:CHK) 

ESG Risk Score: 43.3

ESG-Risk: High

Chesapeake Energy Corporation is another energy company on our list of most capitalist companies in the world. It is based in Oklahoma city. Apart from having a sizable carbon footprint, the company has been involved in several controversies and lawsuits. 

It has faced thousands of court cases due to “underpayment” of royalties to individuals that rented the company their land in Pennsylvania. It has settled with the plaintiffs for over $35 million as of 2017. 

A subsidiary of the business was hit with a $3.2 million fine and ordered to pay $6.5 million in order to “repair 27 sites damaged by improper discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands” by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2013.