Companies
An alphabetical index of all the most admired companies and contenders this year.
Baker Hughes Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 6.58
Ball Packaging, Containers 6.23
Bank of America Megabanks and Credit Card Companies 7.45
Bank of New York Superregional Banks 7.83
BASF Chemicals 6.93
Baxter International Medical Products and Equipment 6.94
Bayer Chemicals 5.91
BB&T Corp Superregional Banks 5.82
Bear Stearns Securities 6.70
Beazer Homes USA Homebuilders 5.74
Beckman Coulter Medical Products and Equipment 6.18
Becton Dickinson Medical Products and Equipment 7.70
Bell Microproducts Wholesalers: Electronics and Office Equipment 4.71
BellSouth Telecommunications 7.32
Bemis Packaging, Containers 5.94
Berkshire Hathaway Insurance: Property and Casualty 8.06
Bertelsmann Entertainment 6.06
Best Buy Specialty Retailers 7.14
Biomet Medical Products and Equipment 6.34
BJ Services Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 6.59
Black & Decker Industrial and Farm Equipment 5.89
BlueLinx Holdings Wholesalers: Diversified 5.65
BMC Software Computer Software 5.19
BMW Motor Vehicles 7.40
Boeing Aerospace and Defense 7.33
Boston Properties Real Estate 7.32
Boston Scientific Medical Products and Equipment 5.33
Bowater Forest and Paper Products 5.15
Boyd Gaming Hotels, Casinos, Resorts 6.21
BP Petroleum Refining 7.13
Bridgestone Motor Vehicle Parts 5.81
Brightpoint Wholesalers: Electronics and Office Equipment 6.21
Brink's Diversified Outsourcing Services 5.88
Brinker International Food Services 6.55
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals 5.00
Broadcom Semiconductors 7.20
Brown-Forman Beverages 4.60
Bunge Food Production 7.14
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroads 5.78
From the March 19, 2007 issue
How the states stack up
California 39
New York 37
Texas 34
Most admired for people management
FedEx 1
Procter & Gamble 1
Google 2
Most admired for innovation
Apple 2
Google 2
FedEx 1
Industry champions
Nike Apparel
Whole Foods Food and Drug Stores
Cisco Network Communications
How we pick the Most Admired companies
The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations. Our survey partners at Hay Group started with the FORTUNE 1,000... (more)

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Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.