Fortune compiled the list of the most admired companies after surveying 3,800 executives, directors and analysts.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Apple has topped the list of most admired companies for the 14th consecutive year.
  • Amazon has retained its second place from last year.
  • All of the top 10 most admired companies on the 2021 Fortune List are Americans.

Fortune Magazine, one of the leading multinational business magazines headquartered in New York, has regularly compiled rankings. The Fortune 500 is a famous list of the 500 largest American companies in terms of total sales.

Fortune annually compiled a list of the world’s most admired companies. In the latest edition we can see the effects of the pandemic. Reliance on tech giants has grown to connect, entertain, and even feed us in a time of isolation.

It’s only fitting that Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft have achieved their top 3 spots in Fortune’s corporate reputation ranking.

Apple, the American tech giant, has topped the list for the 14th consecutive year based on our survey of approximately 3,800 executives, directors and analysts. Streaming juggernaut Netflix has returned to the top.

Here is the list of the 10 most admired tech companies:

1st place Apple

Rank 2. Amazon

3rd place in MicroSoft

Rank 7th alphabet

Rank 12 in Salesforce

Rank 33. Accenture

Rank 37th Nvidia

Rank 40. Adobe

Rank 41. IBM

Rank 49th Samsung