Pride pays: LGBT-friendly businesses are more profitable

In recent years, some of the U.S.’s best-known and largest companies - including Apple, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Walt Disney - have publicly pledged support for sexual minorities. (Photo: GETTY IMAGES)

A growing body of research has in recent years shown that companies promoting gender and racial diversity tend to perform better financially, but fresh analysis out of Finland now provides evidence that the same is true of companies championing LGBT-friendly policies…