World's Most Admired Companies

Top 50

For the 50 most admired companies overall, FORTUNE's survey asked businesspeople to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry.

Rank ▾ Company 1 Apple 2 Google 3 Amazon.com 4 Coca-Cola 5 IBM 6 FedEx 7 Berkshire Hathaway 8 Starbucks 9 Procter & Gamble 10 Southwest Airlines 11 McDonald's 12 Johnson & Johnson 13 Walt Disney 14 BMW 15 General Electric 16 American Express 17 Microsoft 18 3M 19 Caterpillar 20 Costco Wholesale 21 Nordstrom 22 J.P. Morgan Chase 23 Singapore Airlines 24 Wal-Mart Stores 25 Target 26 Nike 27 Exxon Mobil 28 Whole Foods Market 29 UPS 30 Boeing 31 Nestlé 32 PepsiCo 33 Toyota Motor 34 Samsung Electronics 35 Volkswagen 36 Intel 37 DuPont 38 Deere 39 Goldman Sachs Group 40 Marriott International 41 eBay 42 Cisco Systems 43 Accenture 44 Daimler 45 Wells Fargo 46 AT&T 47 Ralph Lauren 48 St. Jude Medical 49 Oracle 50* General Mills 50* Honda Motor 50* Unilever From the March 19, 2012 issue * A tie in the rankings.