Worlds Most Admired Companies

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 Berkshire Hathaway 3 Toyota Motor 4 Google 5 Johnson & Johnson 6 Procter & Gamble 7* FedEx 7* Southwest Airlines 9 General Electric 10 Microsoft 11 Wal-Mart Stores 12 Coca-Cola 13 Walt Disney 14 Wells Fargo 15 Goldman Sachs Group 16 McDonald's 17 IBM 18 3M 19 Target 20 J.P. Morgan Chase 21 PepsiCo 22 Costco Wholesale 23 Nike 24 Nordstrom 25 Exxon Mobil 26 Bank of America 27 United Parcel Service 28 BMW 29 American Express 30 Hewlett-Packard 31 Cisco Systems 32 Honda Motor 33 Singapore Airlines 34 Starbucks 35 Caterpillar 36 Intel 37 Marriott International 38 Nestlé 39 Sony 40 Boeing 41 Deere 42 Nokia 43 Northwestern Mutual 44 Best Buy 45 General Mills 46 Toyota Industries 47 Lowe's 48 AT&T 49 Accenture 50 Samsung Electronics