View from the Financial Markets: Energy and clean tech stocks

View from the Financial Markets: Energy and clean tech stocks View from the Financial Markets: Energy and Clean Tech Stocks and Their Performance in Canada and the U. [...] The stock returns for Canadian clean tech firms were positive in the second half of 2020 and beat the market (the benchmark being the TSX Composite Index), but they were significantly lower than the returns performance of clean tech firms in the U. [...] As seen in Figure 1, crude oil and natural gas prices peaked in 2022 (noting there was also a temporary and isolated brief spike in February 2021 for natural gas prices due to the severe winter storm in Oklahoma and Texas), so that the returns performance for the energy sector surpassed the returns performance of the clean tech sector by the end of the sample period. [...] Coming out of the pandemic lows, in the latter half of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, the U. [...] Financing for Clean Tech and Energy Firms In this section, we explore the financing activities for the sample of clean tech and energy firms in Canada and the U.