world's most admired companies

What becomes a reputation most? Healthy financials and stock performance, for starters. This year four companies have landed on the 50 All-Stars for the first time—Chipotle, <a href="https://fortune.com/company/cvs-health/" target="_blank">CVS Health</a>, <a href="https://fortune.com/company/salesforce-com/" target="_blank">Salesforce</a>.com, and the financial services giant <a href="https://fortune.com/company/usaa/" target="_blank">USAA</a>, which at No. 28 is this year's strongest debut. But not all companies fared as well. Consumer criticism and a change in leadership caused <a href="https://fortune.com/company/mcdonalds/" target="_blank">McDonald&#039;s</a> to slip to No. 46, its lowest rank in the seven years it has appeared in the top 50, and a hacking scandal and public stumbles resulted in <a href="https://fortune.com/company/target/" target="_blank">Target</a> dropping to No. 48. (Read about the retailer's efforts to bounce back in <a href="http://fortune.com/target-new-ceo/">Back on Target?</a>.)
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<b><i>The companies whose ranking appears as "—" did not place in the top 50, but did rank highly in their respective industries. </i></b>

Apple

Google

Berkshire Hathaway

Amazon.com

Starbucks

Walt Disney

Southwest Airlines

American Express

General Electric

Coca-Cola

Johnson & Johnson

FedEx

Nike

Nordstrom

Costco Wholesale

Procter & Gamble

Whole Foods Market

Singapore Airlines

Microsoft

Wells Fargo

Goldman Sachs Group

Toyota Motor

Facebook

Boeing

Caterpillar

USAA

Samsung Electronics

BlackRock

Exxon Mobil

Nestle

J.P. Morgan Chase

Unilever

Marriott International

Wal-Mart Stores

Delta Air Lines

Intel

Home Depot

PepsiCo

Volkswagen

Chipotle Mexican Grill

CVS Health

McDonald's

AT&T

Target

Accenture

salesforce.com

American International Group

CACI International

Denso

General Mills

Jones Financial (Edward Jones)

Motorola Solutions

Quintiles Transnational Holdings

Staples

Autodesk

China National Offshore Oil

Dr Pepper Snapple Group

Hilton Worldwide Holdings

Lennar

Northrop Grumman

Royal Bank of Canada

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Vodafone

Aflac

Becton Dickinson

Continental

Fiserv

Ingram Micro

MasterCard

Phillips 66

Sealed Air

Toll Brothers

Xerox

AmerisourceBergen

Canon

Deutsche Post (DHL)

General Motors

Jones Lang LaSalle

Netflix

Ralph Lauren

Starwood Hotels & Resorts

Union Pacific

Automatic Data Processing

Cigna

Duke Energy

Honda Motor

Lenovo Group

Northwestern Mutual

Royal Dutch Shell

Tata Steel

Volvo

Air France-KLM Group

Bemis

Corning

Fluor

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HQ Country

Industry

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Business insiders have spoken: Asked which companies they most admire, more than 4,100 executives, directors, and analysts chose these top 50 All-Stars.

World's Most Admired Companies

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What becomes a reputation most? Healthy financials and stock performance, for starters. This year four companies have landed on the 50 All-Stars for the first time—Chipotle, CVS Health, Salesforce.com, and the financial services giant USAA, which at No. 28 is this year's strongest debut. But not all companies fared as well. Consumer criticism and a change in leadership caused McDonald's to slip to No. 46, its lowest rank in the seven years it has appeared in the top 50, and a hacking scandal and public stumbles resulted in Target dropping to No. 48. (Read about the retailer's efforts to bounce back in Back on Target?.)
VIDEO: How to become the World's Most Admired Company
The companies whose ranking appears as "—" did not place in the top 50, but did rank highly in their respective industries. 

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