Corporate leaders value stability. And based on our Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies All-Stars list, which is based on a poll of thousands of executives, directors, and analysts, tech giant Apple is as steady as they come. For a stunning 18th straight year, Apple finished first in our annual ranking of corporate reputation. (See the full list of the World's Most Admired Companies here.) But rapid change also earns admiration—as long as that change is positive.
Few companies in history can match the recent meteoric ascent of Nvidia. The company and its GPU chips have both tapped into and helped unleash demand for generative AI. Over the past three years, Nvidia’s revenue has more than quadrupled, while its share price is up 525%.
What might seem like overnight success was decades in the making, of course. (Nvidia was founded in 1993.) And the World’s Most Admired Companies list has been tracking Nvidia’s ascent since well before AI made it a $3 trillion business.
