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This paper suggests a quantum-classical regression framework developed that combines the feature selection in the form of a Random Forest in a hybrid approach, dimensionality reduction in the mode of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and predicting in the form of a Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC). It is tested in various financial indicators, as BSE ESG, Carbon Exchange, Energy, Green Exchange, Oil and Gas and Power, with the help of RMSE and\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    as the measure of performance. As experimental findings indicate, the classical algorithms like Random Forest and k-Nearest Neighbors always have the best accuracy and stability compared to quantum and hybrid ones. Quantum models are unstable, in contrast to Quantum kNN which is fairly stable. The hybrid model performs moderately with consistent error values but fairly lower explanatory power with significant results mostly on the BSE ESG data. In general, the paper has pointed out that classical approaches are still best in structured financial prediction tasks and hybrid quantum-classical models are potentially effective, but not yet competent. 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