Top 100 most admired companies in the world

Corporate reputation is the general opinion that people have about a corporation or enterprise. It is very important to have a good reputation, because if the company has a positive reputation, it can attract better people, it is perceived as providing more value, its customers are more loyal, it has higher P/E multiples and market values and lower costs of capital.

Most companies, however, do an inadequate job of managing their reputations in general and the risks to their reputations in particular. They tend to focus their energies on handling the threats to their reputations that have already surfaced. In this work, we are not going to focus on how to manage or how to improve the reputation of a company, but we are going to present the list of the world’s most admired companies. Let’s see now the list 2020 of top 100 companies in the world by admiration.

In the list of top 100 most admired companies in the world, there are 80 US companies, 4 German companies, 2 UK companies, 2 Swiss companies, 2 Japan companies, 2 French companies, 1 Taiwanese company, 1 Singaporean company, 1 Netherland company, 1 Mexican company, 1 Luxembourgian company, 1 Irish company, 1 Belgian company and 1 Australian company.

At the top of 27 places of the ranking there are 27 US companies. Apple is the most admired company in the world, followed by Amazon, Microsoft, Walt Disney and Berkshire Hathaway. In the last three places of the ranking there are CBRE Group, Centene and Cerner.

Rank	Name	Country
1	Apple	US
2	Amazon	US
3	Microsoft	US
4	Walt Disney	US
5	Berkshire Hathaway	US
6	Starbucks	US
7	Alphabet	US
8	JPMorgan Chase	US
9	Costco Wholesale	US
10	Salesforce	US
11	Southwest Airlines	US
12	Coca-Cola	US
13	Nike	US
14	American Express	US
15	FedEx	US
16	Netflix	US
17	Marriott International	US
18	Walmart	US
19	Delta Air Lines	US
20	Nordstrom	US
21	Home Depot	US
22	Target	US
23	Procter & Gamble	US
24	USAA	US
25	BlackRock	US
26	Johson & Johson	US
27	Goldman Sachs Group	US
28	Singapore Airlines	Singapore
29	3M	UK
30	Toyota Motor	Japan
31	Unilever	UK
32	BMW	Germany
33	UPS	US
34	Accenture	Ireland
35	IBM	US
36	Visa	US
37	Charles Schwab	US
38	CVS Health	US
39	Nestle	Swizerland
40	Adidas	Germany
41	McDonald’s	US
42	Mastercard	US
43	PepsiCo	US
44	Caterpillar	US
45	L’Oreal	France
46	Lockheed Martin	US
47	Adobe	US
48	Publix Super Markets	US
49	Merck	US
50	Exxon Mobil	US
51	ABB	Swizerland
52	Abbott Laboratories	US
53	AbbVie	US
54	Activision Blizzard	US
55	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)	US
56	AECOM	US
57	Aflac	US
58	Air France-KLM Group	France
59	Airbus Group	Netherlands
60	Alcoa	US
61	Allstate	US
62	America Movil	Mexico
63	American Electric Power	US
64	American Tower	US
65	AmerisourceBergen	US
66	Amgen	US
67	Anheuser-Busch InBev	Belgium
68	Anthem	US
69	Apache	US
70	Applied Materials	US
71	Aramark	US
72	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg
73	Archer Daniels Midland	US
74	Arrow Electronics	US
75	Asustek Computer	Taiwan
76	AT&T	US
77	Autodesk	US
78	Automatic Data Processing	US
79	AutoNation	US
80	Bank of America	US
81	Bank of New Yourk Mellon	US
82	BASF	Germany
83	Best Buy	US
84	BHP Group	Australia
85	Boise Cascade	US
86	Booking Holdings	US
87	Booz Allen Hamilton Holding	US
88	Bosch	Germany
89	Boston Scientific	US
90	Bristol-Myers Squibb	US
91	Broadridge Financial Solutions	US
92	Bunge	US
93	C.H. Robinson Worlwide	US
94	CACI International	US
95	Canon	Japan
96	Capital One Financial	US
97	Cardinal Health	US
98	CBRE Group	US
99	Centene	US
100	Cerner	US

The data used in this work have been collected from the last report of the Fortune World’s most admired companies in 2020. The list was determined by a survey of almost 3,800 executives, directors, and analysts.