Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. operates in the energy and environmental technologies sector, serving utility, waste management, municipality, and investment firm customers.

The company's core business does not involve offering lending, deposit, or other financial services to consumers or underserved populations. Therefore, all KPIs related to financial product pricing, fee exposure, customer debt burden, financial literacy initiatives, customer data accessibility for financial services, and geographic inclusion for banking access are not applicable. While the company's industrial projects may indirectly create economic opportunities, such as rural farmers generating income by selling biomass fuel, these are not direct financial services or inclusion programs as defined by the rubric's KPIs. Internal employee development programs or general commitments to the UN Global Compact do not constitute financial inclusion programs or profit reinvestment in community finance.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

The company's CEO to median employee pay ratio was 28:1 in 2023.

The gender pay gap was 5.9% in 2024, improving from 6.7% in 2023, which is better than the UK national average of 13.1%. This translates to a pay equity ratio of 0.941. The worker engagement score, based on culture and values, was 3.3 out of 5 (66/100).

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

The provided articles outline B&W's commitment to ethical conduct

, compliance with laws , and the existence of a Supplier Code of Conduct and reporting mechanisms for ethical concerns . However, no quantitative data was found to assess the company against any of the Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing KPIs, such as fair-trade certification percentages, audit frequencies, forced or child labor incidents, supply chain traceability, remediation speeds, ethical clause coverage in contracts, high-risk material spend, or supplier diversity spend.

Honest & Fair Business

The provided articles do not contain specific, quantitative data points for any of the KPIs related to Honest & Fair Business. While an SEC investigation that began in 2017 concluded in October 2021 without a recommendation for enforcement action, this falls outside the past three-year window for regulatory fines.

Another SEC accounting investigation is mentioned as ongoing, but no details on fines, restatements, or other specific outcomes are provided. Consequently, there is insufficient evidence to score any of the KPIs.

Kind to Animals

No specific, concrete data points related to animal welfare, animal testing, humane certifications, wildlife conservation, ethical sourcing, or animal agriculture practices were found in the provided articles. The articles explicitly state 'No data on [KPI]' for every relevant metric.

While the company is noted as a 'United Nations Global Compact participant,' this is a general sustainability initiative and does not provide evidence for any of the 'Kind to Animals' KPIs.

Planet-Friendly Business

The provided articles lack specific quantitative data regarding Babcock & Wilcox's (B&W) own operational environmental performance. There is no information on the company's Scope 1, 2, or 3 greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy consumption, water use per revenue, waste diversion rates, or the percentage of its capital expenditure aligned with the EU Sustainable Taxonomy.

Similarly, the articles do not provide data on science-based targets, lifecycle impact assessments for its products, or the ratio of recycled to virgin materials used. While B&W is noted for its environmental technologies and projects for clients, such as carbon capture systems and waste-to-energy plants, these initiatives do not provide metrics for the company's internal environmental footprint. Although a historical total of 20 violation records (2000-present) is mentioned, including environmental offenses, the articles do not provide an annual count of environmental compliance violations for B&W, which is required for scoring that KPI.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

The company has 14 formal partnerships with Indigenous businesses.

It also makes an annual investment of $200,000 in Indigenous workforce development. It also adopted the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) certification in 2020. No specific data is available regarding the percentage of revenue reinvested in local community development, cultural appropriation incidents, cultural impact assessment protocol, local employment ratio, grievance mechanisms, complaint resolution times, FPIC participation, community governance inclusion, cultural preservation investment, local procurement share, indigenous supplier count, cultural site protection, social license operations, charitable giving, community fund allocation, language inclusivity, cultural incident response, or cultural training completion.

Safe & Smart Tech

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. reported in its 2025-03-31 10-K filing that no cybersecurity incidents have materially affected the company.

The company provides annual cybersecurity training for all salaried employees. Additionally, multi-factor authentication and malware defenses are employed, described as industry-standard techniques.