by Lindsay Pietroluongo
This article discusses the 2025 list of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies, as well as how you can make your company a standout in your industry.
Every year, Fortune puts out its list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. In 2025, these are the Top 10:
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Amazon
- Nvidia
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Costco Wholesale
- JPMorgan Chase
- Walmart
- Alphabet
- American Express
Here’s the rest of the Top 50 list:
Over 3,700 analysts, directors and executives are polled about corporate reputation to determine the final list. According to partner Korn Ferry, which Fortune collaborates with for the list, poll participant demographics include the following:
Which Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies Made It Into the Top?
This year marks Fortune’s 27th edition of the list, and Apple is once again ranked first for the 18th year in a row.
Here are a few more notable takeaways from the list:
- Apple continues to be the most admired company on the Fortune list, followed closely by the rest of the top 5: Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and Berkshire Hathaway.
- This is Nvidia’s first time in the top 5. In 2024, it was ranked No. 10, and in 2023, it was ranked No. 45.
- The top 50 includes four companies that weren’t on the list in 2024: Caterpillar, ServiceNow, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Novo Nordisk.
- Two additional companies that emerged on the list this year are Singapore Airlines and Morgan Stanley.
Other notable brands that have a place in the Top 50 include Adobe, L’Oreal, Mastercard and Samsung Electronics. To access the full list, you’ll need to subscribe to Fortune.
While NetReputation did not make Fortune’s rankings in 2025, it was one of Fortune’s 50 Best Workplaces in Advertising and Marketing in 2022, and we’ve received other accolades as well.
What Attributes Do the Top Companies Have?
On top of growing into a position of enormous influence and power, each of Fortune’s top-ranking companies shows a lot of stability in its industry.
Management consulting firm Korn Ferry, which has partnered with the Fortune company since 1997 to select the World’s Most Admired Companies list, uses nine corporate reputation attributes to rank companies. Among them, “soundness of financial position” is deemed the most important, even higher than product and management quality.
According to Kern Ferry, additional admired companies ranking qualities that help a brand become one of the World’s Most Admired Companies in its industry include:
- Attracting and retaining talent
- Community and environmental responsibility
- Conducting business globally in an effective and competitive manner
- Innovation
- Long-term investment value
- Use of corporate assets
It’s impossible for brands to achieve such high industry rankings without solid reputations behind them. Whether your goal is to increase revenue, showcase your services to your audience, or one day claim your place on the Most Admired list, you’ll need a positive online reputation to support you.
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Final Thoughts About the World’s Most Admired Companies
If your goal is to become part of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list, like The Walt Disney Company, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase, or any others that make it into the top of the companies ranked by Fortune, you’ll need to be a respected leader in your industry.
Inc., a leading American business magazine, has ranked NetReputation in various honors:
- Regionals Southeast: No. 139 in 2024, No. 133 in 2023, No. 214 in 2021
- Regionals Florida: No. 67 in 2020
- Inc. 5000: No. 3001 in 2023, No. 3036 in 2022, No. 3802 in 2021, No. 1674 in 2020, No. 208 in 2019
According to Inc., the regionals select companies that are “making an outsized impact” in the area, while the Inc. 5000 list ranks the fastest-growing private U.S. companies.
Do you need help developing an online reputation management strategy to reach your goals, like becoming one of the World’s Most Admired Companies? Find the best way to position yourself for the challenging global business environment. Contact us today at 844-461-3632 or by filling out the contact form below to learn more.