WORLD'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES:TOP 50

Top 50

For the 50 most admired companies overall, FORTUNE's survey asked businesspeople to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry. There is a  tie in the rankings. Rank Company 1 Apple 2 Google 3 Berkshire Hathaway 4 Southwest Airlines 5 Procter & Gamble 6 Coca-Cola 7 Amazon.com 8 FedEx 9 Microsoft 10 McDonald's 11 Wal-Mart Stores 12 IBM 13 General Electric 14 Walt Disney 15 3M 16 Starbucks 17 Johnson & Johnson 18 Singapore Airlines 19 BMW 20 American Express 21 Nordstrom 22 Target 23 J.P. Morgan Chase 24 Nike 25 Goldman Sachs Group 26 PepsiCo 27 Caterpillar 28 Cisco Systems 29 Costco Wholesale 30 UPS 31 Nestlé 32 Intel 33 Toyota Motor 34 Exxon Mobil 35 Volkswagen 36 Best Buy 37 Marriott International 38 Samsung Electronics 39 Deere 40 Netflix 41 Wells Fargo 42 Honda Motor 43 DuPont 44 Yum Brands 45 eBay 46 Sony 47 General Mills 48 Oracle 49 Accenture 49 Lowe's