Apple Tops Fortune's List of 'World's Most Admired Companies' for the 17th Year [Chart]

Apple has topped Fortune's lists of the 'World's Most Admired Companies' for the seventeenth straight year.

To select the top 50, Fortune, in partnership with Korn Ferry, asked 3720 directors and securities analysts to select the 10 companies they admired most. They chose from a list made up of the companies that ranked in the top 25% in last year's surveys, plus those that finished in the top 20% of their industry. Anyone could vote for any company in any industry.

Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon topped the rankings for 2024 as they did in 2023.


Big Tech companies were once the disrupters at the edges of the global economy; now they're the engines at its center. The 26th edition of the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies All-Stars list shows how much esteem those giants command among other business leaders. For the 17th straight year, Apple finished first in our annual ranking of corporate reputation, based on a poll of some 3,700 executives, directors, and analysts. And for the fifth year in a row, Amazon and Microsoft rounded out the top three. Meanwhile Nvidia, whose GPU chips are powering the world's forays into generative AI, soared to its highest-ever ranking at No. 10. In other industries, megaretailer Walmart (No. 9) returned to the top 10 for the first time in 14 years, while COVID-vaccine maker Moderna (No. 37) became a first-time All-Star.

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