The ranking of the world's most admired companies did not change in 2023. Applebecame the world's most admired company for the 16th consecutive year. Amazon and Microsoft followed Apple in the list compiled by Forbes .
Berkshire Hathaway , known as the second largest holding company in the world ,technologyIt was the company that came after the giants. JP Morgan Chase , which is said to be the world's largest bank in terms of market capitalization , ranked fifth.
Walt Disney , which Bob Iger took over again after a two-year hiatus , was ranked fifth on the list, while Costco , which is among the 10 largest retailers in the world, took the seventh place. Alphabet, Google's parent company, followed Pfizer , one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, which ranked eighth . American Express entered the top 10.
Top 100 ranking of the world's most admired companies
Apple Amazon Microsoft Berkshire Hathaway JPMorgan Chase Walt Disney Costco Wholesale Pfizer Alphabet American Express Salesforce Delta Air Lines Walmart Starbucks Coca Cola Marriott International Nike FedEx Goldman Sachs Group Home Depot Target Johnson & Johnson Southwest Airlines Procter & Gamble BlackRock USAA Nordstrom BMW Group Netflix 3M Singapore Airlines Accenture CVS Health PepsiCo UPS Toyota Motor Bank of America McDonald’s IBM Morgan Stanley Nestlé Samsung Danaher Publix Super Markets Nvidia Unilever Visa Lockheed Martin Lowe’s Charles Schwab ABB Abbott Laboratories Adobe AMD AECOM Aflac Air France-KLM Airbus Alaska Air Group Ali Baba Mobile America American Electric Power AmerisourceBergen Amgen Anheuser-Busch InBev WHAT Applied Materials Aramark ArcelorMittal Archer Daniels Midland Arrow Electronics AstraZeneca Asustek Computer AT&T Automatic Data Processing AutoNation AutoZone Avery Dennison Avnet BAE Systems Ball Bank of New York Mellon Barclays BASF Best Buy BHP Group Booking Holdings Booz Allen Hamilton Holding BorgWarner Bosch Boston Scientific Bristol-Myers Squibb Broadridge Financial Solutions Brown-Forman Bunge Bermuda C.H. Robinson Worldwide CACI International Capital One Financial Carrier Global CaterpillarThe ranking is based on a survey of nearly 3700 company executives, analysts and executives. Appearing to dominate the computer industry, Apple also ranked first in the categories of innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, management quality, financial soundness, long-term investment value, product and service quality, and global competitiveness.