The 2021 Drucker Institute Company Ranking

RANKING	EFFECTIVENESS	COMPANY	CUSTOMER SATISFACTION	EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT	INNOVATION	SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY	FINANCIAL STRENGTH
1	105.5	Microsoft Corp	55.4	72.7	136.2	75.4	88.6
2	94.3	Amazon.com Inc	53.6	53.9	155.0	50.2	77.5
3	91.6	Apple Inc.	57.2	62.2	111.8	67.0	89.3
4	88.9	Intl Business Machines Corp	75.4	53.4	115.6	68.9	54.1
5	82.9	Intel Corp	62.3	60.5	84.9	75.8	71.6
6	81.1	Nvidia Corp	73.3	76.5	65.9	65.2	76.0
7	80.9	Johnson & Johnson	55.8	64.9	90.8	66.9	71.4
8	80.5	Cisco Systems Inc	77.7	66.7	68.7	72.6	62.8
9	79.7	Procter & Gamble	70.4	66.1	78.1	62.0	73.3
10	77.5	HP Inc	69.7	62.5	61.5	79.2	65.4
11	77.4	PepsiCo Inc	68.0	58.0	77.0	70.6	63.6
12	76.3	Adobe Inc.	59.8	73.5	65.4	70.3	67.9
12	76.1	Alphabet Inc C	54.0	55.5	81.6	63.8	84.5
14	75.8	Accenture plc A	69.9	59.7	67.2	71.0	65.8
15	75.5	Merck & Co Inc	64.3	63.0	70.6	70.6	62.9
16	75.1	General Motors Company	68.8	56.0	81.3	63.3	60.2
17	74.9	Equinix Inc	59.9	64.4	97.5	56.4	45.8
18	74.2	3M Co	53.8	59.7	82.5	71.3	55.4
19	73.3	Capital One Financial	52.0	62.9	92.8	57.0	57.9
20	72.9	NIKE Inc B	68.5	49.6	75.5	63.9	67.4
21	72.8	Visa Inc A	66.2	61.0	65.4	67.7	64.0
21	72.1	Salesforce.com	64.4	73.6	67.8	63.1	50.4
23	71.8	Abbott Laboratories	51.1	58.0	78.8	71.6	55.6
23	71.6	Edwards Lifesciences Corp	70.2	62.7	60.7	67.3	59.0
23	70.9	Advanced Micro Devices	60.0	65.6	55.4	63.1	81.8
26	70.8	Ford Motor Co	68.7	57.0	75.1	61.2	52.3
26	70.3	Pfizer Inc	62.5	62.6	68.9	61.9	59.9
26	70.1	Etsy, Inc.	65.4	67.8	63.8	50.0	76.9
29	69.9	Lockheed Martin	63.4	60.7	64.1	64.6	62.0
30	69.6	S&P Global Inc	69.6	57.9	50.3	66.5	75.1
30	69.4	JP Morgan Chase & Co	58.4	58.6	69.0	61.2	67.6
32	69.4	Facebook Inc A	27.3	67.9	81.7	57.0	84.4
33	69.3	Eli Lilly & Co	62.7	59.4	61.3	65.9	64.4
34	69.2	American Express Co	53.7	64.6	72.1	62.9	56.9
35	69.2	Target Corp	61.1	52.2	70.0	63.5	65.9
36	69.1	Verizon Communications Inc	46.3	58.9	69.2	68.0	70.2
37	69.0	Amgen Inc	70.9	60.9	56.4	67.5	54.5
38	68.9	Colgate-Palmolive Co	57.2	69.0	53.2	66.8	68.7
39	68.8	Whirlpool Corp	54.8	57.8	71.6	67.3	56.2
40	68.7	Oracle Corp	67.1	46.8	66.3	61.3	72.7
40	68.7	eBay Inc.	55.0	56.5	73.5	63.5	60.6
40	68.5	Coca-Cola Co	64.0	54.7	67.0	63.8	59.8
43	68.3	Agilent Technologies Inc	77.1	62.3	51.3	65.1	53.9
43	68.2	Caterpillar Inc	75.2	52.7	72.2	56.3	50.5
45	68.1	Lam Research Corp	64.1	63.9	49.6	64.2	72.4
46	67.7	Deere & Co	63.6	52.8	69.1	63.5	56.2
46	67.6	Weyerhaeuser Co	65.5	54.2	63.3	65.2	57.7
48	67.5	Medtronic plc	52.5	59.4	75.2	65.9	47.7
49	67.5	Applied Materials Inc	62.3	55.7	58.0	63.9	70.4
50	67.4	Allstate Corp	60.1	42.3	73.8	62.7	67.8
51	67.2	QUALCOMM Inc	41.5	57.4	69.6	64.4	75.5
52	66.9	Dell Technologies Inc-C	61.3	39.9	77.9	63.5	58.8
53	66.9	Home Depot Inc	50.9	51.6	64.3	62.0	81.7
53	66.8	Owens Corning Inc	67.6	63.7	53.0	67.7	50.2
55	66.7	Raytheon Technologies Corp	62.6	54.5	83.3	56.2	40.5
56	66.7	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co	57.5	58.4	65.4	70.7	45.5
57	66.5	Hershey Foods Corp	69.4	60.0	50.5	67.5	56.0
58	66.5	Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc	70.5	62.1	59.8	65.4	40.1
59	66.3	Walmart Inc.	51.2	41.4	88.2	54.2	67.4
60	66.3	Clorox Co	69.8	61.5	52.0	64.4	55.3
60	66.2	Mastercard Inc A	47.0	69.3	55.0	64.9	70.0
62	66.2	Citigroup Inc	49.0	54.0	71.0	66.1	59.9
62	66.0	Linde plc	67.0	51.5	63.8	66.5	48.7
64	66.0	Texas Instruments Inc	49.2	65.2	48.0	69.2	75.2
64	65.9	General Mills Inc	53.4	64.4	55.4	72.7	51.9
66	65.8	General Electric Co	59.7	51.1	79.0	59.6	45.6
66	65.2	Johnson Controls International plc	68.0	47.3	60.7	69.7	48.7
66	65.2	Nielsen Holdings plc	63.6	52.8	75.4	57.7	44.4
69	65.2	Estee Lauder Cos. A	66.0	57.5	49.9	65.8	61.9
70	65.1	Honeywell Intl Inc	62.1	49.9	70.7	60.0	53.5
70	65.0	Altria Group Inc	47.5	59.6	66.4	62.1	63.0
72	64.6	Jones Lang Lasalle Inc	55.7	57.2	62.7	67.2	50.5
73	64.2	Kimberly-Clark	61.4	59.6	51.0	63.5	63.0
74	64.2	Rockwell Automation Inc	64.7	56.5	54.6	61.3	60.8
74	64.2	Humana Inc	62.8	61.8	59.4	59.5	51.1
74	64.0	Intl Flavors & Fragrances	73.4	54.1	55.5	65.6	42.0
77	63.9	Intuit Inc	54.8	68.3	57.6	57.0	59.3
78	63.9	Newmont Corp	56.1	67.1	49.9	68.4	51.7
79	63.8	Trane Technologies plc	62.2	60.2	47.8	70.9	51.6
79	63.8	Cummins Inc	54.7	58.6	55.4	69.7	53.6
81	63.8	Vmware Inc A	61.4	68.9	52.9	59.1	52.8
82	63.6	Starbucks Corp	50.2	52.5	68.4	62.1	59.3
82	63.6	Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc	59.1	59.7	50.4	55.6	77.9
84	63.2	Northrop Grumman Corp	46.9	57.4	65.6	66.0	53.1
85	63.2	PayPal Holdings Inc.	46.1	60.5	64.0	60.0	62.7
85	63.1	Autodesk Inc	51.3	66.2	47.2	65.9	64.4
87	63.0	TE Connectivity Ltd.	71.8	53.1	51.3	64.8	48.9
88	62.9	AbbVie Inc.	47.5	63.0	56.3	67.8	55.3
88	62.6	Mettler-Toledo Intl	68.1	52.5	46.5	61.2	67.2
88	62.5	Illumina Inc	54.6	60.5	52.5	68.2	52.5
91	62.3	Workday Inc. A	67.5	68.2	48.2	60.7	43.2
92	62.3	Moody’s Corp	65.6	56.7	45.7	63.4	60.6
93	62.3	Campbell Soup Co	61.8	56.2	53.0	66.5	49.2
94	62.2	Biogen Inc	58.0	65.3	48.3	66.6	49.2
95	62.1	Best Buy Co Inc	68.2	47.6	52.3	62.4	59.7
95	62.0	United Parcel Service Inc B	51.7	47.9	61.5	63.3	65.0
95	62.0	Morgan Stanley	57.8	57.1	54.6	60.6	60.0
95	61.8	Huntsman Corp	69.9	57.6	51.2	60.4	47.5
99	61.8	McCormick & Co	64.9	62.2	48.7	62.7	48.0
99	61.7	Marriott Intl A	60.7	52.7	62.0	60.7	48.6
101	61.6	Keysight Technologies Inc	65.3	62.0	48.4	58.9	54.4
101	61.6	T-Mobile US Inc	50.0	59.9	62.9	57.7	56.8
101	61.6	Xylem Inc	63.8	53.7	50.9	68.8	46.2
101	61.4	Bank of America Corp	45.4	61.0	55.8	67.2	55.1
105	61.3	Bristol-Myers Squibb	45.8	66.4	62.7	62.4	44.4
105	61.2	Leidos Holdings Inc	50.9	55.7	55.6	69.4	50.9
105	61.2	Archer-Daniels-Midland Co	68.8	56.2	50.2	57.9	54.5
108	61.2	Automatic Data Processing	57.9	56.1	53.0	61.3	58.7
108	61.0	Intuitive Surgical Inc	53.9	66.2	63.0	47.5	57.9
110	61.0	CBRE Group Inc.	52.5	57.8	53.3	65.3	55.5
110	60.9	DuPont de Nemours Inc.	61.6	53.9	72.3	50.4	43.3
112	60.8	Dow Inc	51.4	64.3	60.6	55.4	52.7
113	60.7	Cadence Design Systems Inc	62.1	64.5	49.2	54.2	58.2
114	60.7	Ball Corp	57.3	59.4	47.5	68.3	49.3
115	60.6	AES Corp	53.6	66.5	57.3	59.7	43.6
116	60.6	ProLogis Inc	60.3	68.3	44.5	63.3	46.2
117	60.5	Danaher Corp	63.4	54.3	58.6	53.8	54.5
118	60.4	Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc	64.4	56.7	50.2	52.4	65.7
119	60.4	Philip Morris International	35.7	54.0	63.0	60.2	74.2
119	60.4	VF Corp	64.0	56.4	49.2	64.3	47.1
121	60.3	Anthem Inc	36.1	51.3	64.8	70.3	56.3
121	60.2	FedEx Corp	59.7	51.2	54.0	60.1	59.0
123	60.0	Eaton Corp plc	62.5	52.8	51.3	64.6	48.5
123	60.0	Cardinal Health Inc	61.6	47.9	52.3	67.0	50.5
125	60.0	Cigna Corporation	40.0	56.8	55.3	70.7	56.6
125	60.0	Waste Management Inc	61.1	53.3	50.3	64.1	52.1
125	60.0	Kellogg Co	54.8	55.6	51.8	67.3	49.6
128	59.9	Becton Dickinson & Co	49.2	55.3	63.3	63.6	45.3
129	59.8	Yum! Brands Inc	45.6	55.1	56.4	62.9	62.4
129	59.8	Stanley Black & Decker	64.6	48.2	56.2	60.6	49.6
131	59.7	NextEra Energy Inc	53.8	56.6	60.1	59.2	49.3
131	59.7	Wells Fargo & Co	39.8	47.3	77.5	61.4	49.1
131	59.7	Pitney Bowes Inc	72.8	47.2	51.6	61.3	45.8
131	59.7	W.W. Grainger Inc	65.6	58.5	44.6	60.7	52.7
135	59.6	Oshkosh Corporation	66.9	57.3	51.3	56.9	48.0
136	59.6	Western Union Co	57.5	50.6	58.6	58.9	54.5
137	59.6	Gap Inc	55.4	50.1	59.9	65.4	44.4
137	59.6	Travelers Cos Inc	50.7	59.8	54.4	59.3	57.4
137	59.5	Costco Wholesale Corp	50.2	61.6	58.9	49.6	65.0
137	59.5	Thermo Fisher Scientific	49.3	54.8	56.5	58.4	63.8
141	59.4	Goldman Sachs Group Inc	45.8	56.0	49.4	66.4	64.2
141	59.4	Prudential Financial Inc	42.3	52.5	60.4	65.7	57.1
143	59.4	Air Products & Chemicals Inc	44.6	59.6	54.3	67.8	50.5
143	59.4	Square, Inc. A	59.6	64.6	48.1	48.8	66.3
145	59.4	Xilinx Inc	61.2	61.4	51.1	53.6	55.3
146	59.4	Lowe’s Cos Inc	51.5	42.8	53.7	63.4	72.4
146	59.4	Baxter Intl Inc	54.2	57.8	50.9	66.8	46.7
146	59.3	PVH Corp	66.6	56.6	54.2	57.5	42.0
149	59.3	Hologic Inc	67.5	56.1	46.0	52.3	63.8
150	59.2	Delta Air Lines	60.9	69.7	57.8	55.9	28.7
150	59.2	Synopsys Inc	58.6	60.4	53.9	54.3	53.7
150	59.2	Ecolab Inc	47.5	52.4	63.7	64.0	46.5
150	59.0	Micron Technology Inc	56.2	57.2	55.1	59.4	49.4
150	59.0	Hasbro Inc	53.0	54.5	56.4	65.2	45.0
155	58.9	Metlife Inc	46.9	53.9	54.4	65.7	56.2
156	58.9	Polaris Inc	56.5	57.0	57.0	53.5	55.9
156	58.9	T Rowe Price Group Inc	48.7	54.6	48.2	58.2	75.8
158	58.8	Deckers Outdoor	63.2	53.0	49.2	53.8	63.9
159	58.8	Hormel Foods Corp	62.5	60.3	50.1	56.8	47.9
159	58.7	Church & Dwight Co	61.7	57.9	49.0	57.6	52.2
159	58.7	Molson Coors Beverage Co B	62.4	53.7	54.5	61.4	41.4
162	58.6	Eastman Chemical Co	65.3	56.6	49.8	59.4	44.4
162	58.4	Uber Technologies Inc.	49.2	56.0	85.0	42.8	38.1
162	58.3	Aptiv plc	60.0	49.8	51.1	63.5	50.2
165	58.3	Avery Dennison Corp	60.0	56.6	51.0	56.1	53.9
165	58.2	Analog Devices Inc	63.5	55.0	49.6	58.3	49.7
165	58.2	AT&T Inc	49.0	46.8	60.5	66.6	48.4
165	58.1	Hartford Finl Services Group	43.3	59.5	54.7	64.2	51.9
169	58.0	Walt Disney Co	44.8	56.8	59.3	65.9	42.4
170	58.0	Mosaic Co	61.8	54.3	50.2	59.3	48.7
170	58.0	On Semiconductor Corp	67.3	48.9	48.6	61.8	46.7
170	57.9	ResMed Inc	57.9	60.4	49.1	55.9	53.1
170	57.8	Exelon Corp	44.4	64.8	50.7	63.7	49.3
170	57.8	Boston Scientific Corp	44.6	62.8	53.1	66.1	43.3
175	57.7	Jacobs Engineering Group Inc	57.3	55.1	52.1	58.4	51.4
175	57.7	Lululemon Athletica inc	57.3	62.6	51.3	47.9	60.7
177	57.7	Brown-Forman Corp B	56.4	61.4	50.5	55.6	51.4
177	57.6	Celanese Corp A	63.8	49.4	50.1	54.8	58.8
177	57.6	Unitedhealth Group Inc	39.0	47.1	56.2	62.9	71.8
177	57.5	Freeport-McMoRan Inc	59.3	56.5	45.7	60.7	51.7
177	57.5	AECOM	66.5	46.6	53.0	59.6	45.7
182	57.5	Corteva Inc.	51.6	55.4	75.2	43.3	46.5
182	57.4	Sempra Energy	40.6	64.7	52.4	64.3	48.9
182	57.4	Iron Mountain Inc	57.1	45.0	60.4	59.1	49.1
185	57.3	JetBlue Airways Corp	66.1	56.7	57.1	50.7	40.4
185	57.3	Teradyne Inc	59.8	61.7	41.7	50.0	68.6
185	57.1	Gilead Sciences Inc	50.2	57.6	54.7	59.4	48.7
185	57.1	Comcast Corp A	31.3	55.4	61.9	61.2	63.1
189	57.1	CVS Health Corporation	57.6	34.7	57.5	62.7	59.2
189	57.1	ServiceNow Inc.	55.0	64.8	46.3	49.8	62.7
189	57.0	Discover Financial Services	57.3	56.9	51.7	50.4	60.3
189	57.0	Hess Corp	50.0	60.6	46.2	69.3	41.0
193	57.0	NetApp Inc	58.3	60.0	45.3	55.8	55.4
194	57.0	Progressive Corp	46.3	60.8	53.3	48.7	70.2
194	57.0	Waters Corp	64.0	49.7	48.6	52.1	62.6
194	57.0	Borgwarner Inc	64.1	48.9	50.8	58.6	48.6
197	57.0	Tapestry, Inc	61.5	53.9	54.3	53.5	48.6
197	56.8	Cognizant Tech Solutions Corp	60.7	42.7	54.4	61.9	49.4
197	56.8	Avient Corp	62.2	57.0	49.5	55.8	46.5
200	56.8	Sherwin-Williams Co	58.2	49.4	51.9	57.6	55.3
201	56.7	NXP Semiconductor NV	50.6	54.1	52.4	62.5	49.4
201	56.7	Illinois Tool Works Inc	52.9	47.7	54.7	58.3	58.7
203	56.6	Alcoa Corp	58.5	53.2	50.4	61.8	44.0
203	56.6	PerkinElmer Inc	66.9	47.1	48.6	53.0	58.7
203	56.5	Mondelez International Inc	50.4	55.7	46.7	64.1	53.0
203	56.5	Juniper Networks Inc	65.7	55.8	49.5	55.2	42.8
207	56.3	Ryder System Inc	71.6	46.8	48.3	57.0	44.8
207	56.3	Sysco Corp	62.3	50.5	49.4	59.6	46.1
207	56.2	Keurig Dr Pepper Inc	66.3	49.9	48.3	56.5	48.3
210	56.2	Baker Hughes Company	48.0	50.0	60.2	66.9	35.7
211	56.2	BlackRock Inc	44.7	63.2	50.1	58.7	53.1
211	56.1	Western Digital Corp	57.5	50.5	52.8	61.3	43.4
211	56.1	TechnipFMC plc	69.5	50.9	53.2	54.2	38.3
211	56.1	LyondellBasell Industries N.V.	51.4	59.0	51.1	54.6	54.6
211	56.1	Motorola Solutions Inc	49.5	55.8	45.5	64.6	53.1
211	56.0	KLA Corporation	49.8	58.4	49.5	51.5	65.4
217	55.9	Autoliv Inc	68.4	47.8	45.3	58.6	48.0
217	55.8	Verisk Analytics Inc	56.6	59.0	52.5	50.8	50.6
219	55.7	Pentair PLC	66.2	47.6	47.8	56.0	50.9
220	55.7	Seagate Technology	53.4	51.1	49.2	57.3	59.2
221	55.7	American Electric Power	42.1	61.1	55.0	59.5	47.7
221	55.7	McDonald’s Corp	43.8	37.0	63.8	60.0	62.7
221	55.6	Garmin Ltd	49.4	53.0	63.4	45.3	59.7
224	55.6	Amcor plc	62.6	50.8	49.4	55.8	48.8
225	55.6	J.M. Smucker Co	61.7	49.5	46.5	61.3	46.7
226	55.5	Kimco Realty Corp	64.0	57.4	45.7	54.6	45.8
227	55.5	US Bancorp	45.0	53.8	61.0	55.6	49.8
228	55.3	Southwest Airlines Co	57.5	63.1	58.5	51.4	30.7
228	55.3	Ventas Inc	58.6	54.0	45.9	62.4	42.6
228	55.3	Dominion Energy Inc	39.0	63.9	53.1	61.2	46.4
228	55.2	Intl Paper Co	56.1	52.4	51.1	58.6	45.8
232	55.2	Levi Strauss & Co.-A	64.3	56.6	49.6	49.9	46.6
232	55.1	Boeing Co	58.6	48.0	72.7	54.9	19.8
232	55.0	FactSet Research System Inc	55.5	52.8	50.9	53.7	54.1
235	55.0	Steel Dynamics Inc	58.9	62.4	49.8	44.5	54.2
236	54.9	Xerox Holdings Corp	61.2	37.6	49.1	68.5	43.8
236	54.9	Citrix Systems Inc	53.3	63.4	48.9	52.4	48.0
236	54.8	TJX Cos Inc	53.5	49.8	51.0	59.0	50.7
236	54.8	KB Home	64.8	52.4	42.1	57.1	49.2
240	54.7	Southern Co	47.0	63.5	49.8	54.9	49.7
240	54.7	Public Service Enterprise Grp	47.6	63.9	44.6	61.1	46.0
240	54.7	Ralph Lauren Corp A	65.3	50.0	51.6	52.6	44.0
240	54.7	ManpowerGroup	50.0	50.0	46.8	66.0	49.1
244	54.6	L3Harris Technologies Inc	50.3	51.9	58.3	54.9	46.5
245	54.5	Nasdaq Inc	47.2	60.9	44.2	60.7	50.9
246	54.4	Bunge Ltd	48.6	55.9	49.8	55.5	55.6
246	54.4	PNC Finl Services Group	56.9	50.7	48.3	57.0	50.6
246	54.4	Newell Brands Inc	60.9	46.1	51.5	56.8	46.6
246	54.3	Tesla, Inc	57.1	53.5	54.9	40.8	64.2
250	54.3	ANSYS Inc	59.4	59.9	48.4	48.9	48.7
250	54.3	Hanesbrands Inc	58.8	43.0	56.0	57.2	45.3
250	54.3	Nordstrom Inc	56.6	50.2	51.4	60.5	39.9

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