Apple is probably the most admired firm on the planet for the seventeenth consecutive yr, in line with Fortune.
As soon as once more the tech large completed first within the journal’s annual rating of company status, primarily based on a ballot of some 3,700 executives, administrators, and analysts. And for the fifth yr in a row, Amazon and Microsoft rounded out the highest three.
In the meantime Nvidia, whose GPU chips are powering the world’s forays into generative AI, soared to its highest-ever rating at No. 10. In different industries, megaretailer Walmart (No. 9) returned to the highest 10 for the primary time in 14 years, whereas COVID-vaccine maker Moderna (No. 37) turned a first-time All-Star.
Fortune collaborated with the managing consulting agency of Korn Ferry on the survey of company reputations. They started with a universe of about 1,500 candidates: the 1,000 largest U.S. firms ranked by income, together with non-U.S. firms in Fortune’s International 500 database which have revenues of $10 billion or extra.
Then they winnowed the assortment to the highest-revenue firms in every trade, a complete of 660 in 29 international locations. The highest-rated firms have been picked from that pool of 660; the executives who voted work on the firms in that group.
