Benchmark Electronics - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Benchmark Electronics is Medium Risk.

Benchmark Electronics is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Benchmark Electronics integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2025 Sustainability Report: “The Company’s material
assumptions include those related to our ability to
successfully implement our sustainability and ESG
initiatives as intended, to further invest in renewable
energy, to enhance cross-functional collaboration
to operationalize our ESG initiatives across the
Company, and our ability to engage our suppliers
on sustainability and ESG practices” (1). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Benchmark Electronics does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Benchmark Electronics offers inclusion training to its employees (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its leadership composition. From its Charter of the Nominating, Sustainability & Governance Committee of the Board of Directors: “The Committee shall determine the appropriate committee structure for the Board,
as well as the criteria, objectives and procedures for selecting Board members. The
Committee shall consider factors such as independence, diversity, age, integrity,
skills, expertise, breadth of experience, knowledge about the Company’s business” (2). Benchmark Electronics does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (3)(4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Benchmark Electronics supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a DEI Council (1). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its blog webpage: “Benchmark as a company has been focused on ESG and Sustainability for many years” (2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Benchmark Electronics has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Benchmark Electronics does not operate a PAC at this time and has not used its lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).