PALO ALTO, Calif. June 7, 2016 – This week, SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading online survey platform, in collaboration with Fortune, released rankings of Fortune 100 companies on both positive and negative dimensions. The dimensions included measures such as trustworthiness, innovation, cares about you, ruthlessness and worst for the country.
The survey of over 10,000 U.S. adults found tech companies scoring highest with Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft all in the top 10 for most innovative, influential, positive global impact, and place Americans would most like to work.
| Most Innovative | Most Influential | Most Positive Global Impact | Most Like to Work |
| 1. Apple | 1. JP Morgan & Chase Co. | 1. Microsoft | 1. Walt Disney |
| 2. Alphabet (Google) | 2. Apple | 2. Alphabet (Google) | 2. Alphabet (Google) |
| 3. Intel | 3. Walmart Stores | 3. Amazon | 3. Amazon |
| 4. Amazon | 4. Microsoft | 4. Apple | 4. Apple |
| 5. Microsoft | 5. Amazon | 5. Walt Disney | 5. Twenty-First Century Fox |
| 6. 3M | 6. Exxon Mobil | 6. Exxon Mobil | 6. Delta Air Lines |
| 7. Cisco Systems | 7. General Motors | 7. Johnson & Johnson | 7. Microsoft |
| 8. Boeing | 8. Goldman Sachs Group | 8. Walmart | 8. Nike |
| 9. Dow Chemical | 9. Bank of America Corp. | 9. General Electric | 9. Boeing |
| 10. Oracle | 10. Alphabet (Google) | 10. Intel | 10. Lockheed Martin |
*Tech companies are bolded in the chart above.
Tech companies also dominate the list of where people would invest their life savings: Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Apple are the top 3. And, these companies are expected to be around for a long time. Of the companies people think will be around 100 years from today, most have already been around for nearly a century (Coca Cola, General Electric, Walt Disney, General Motors). The exceptions are tech companies, with Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Alphabet making the top 20 list of companies that people expect to still be in business in 2116.
Walmart has the dubious honor of coming in first place as the company respondents dislike the most. Across all negative dimensions (negative global impact, worst for the country, desire to shut down, and ruthless), people said the company was the most ruthless and worst overall for the country.
Possibly still raw from the financial crisis, people rank banks as more ruthless than oil companies, with JPMorgan and Bank of America being named above Exxon Mobil and Chevron. Comcast rounds out the top five most ruthless and worst for the country lists.
| Most Ruthless | Worst for the Country | Most Negative Global Impact |
| 1. Walmart | 1. Walmart | 1. Walmart |
| 2. Goldman Sachs Group | 2. JP Morgan & Chase Co. | 2. Exxon Mobil |
| 3. JP Morgan & Chase Co. | 3. Goldman Sachs Group | 3. Dow Chemical |
| 4. Bank of America Corp. | 4. Exxon Mobil | 4. Goldman Sachs Group |
| 5. Comcast | 5. Bank of America Corp. | 5. General Motors |
| 6. Exxon Mobil | 6. Comcast | 6. JP Morgan & Chase Co. |
| 7. Verizon Communications | 7. Dow Chemical | 7. Valero Energy |
| 8. Morgan Stanley | 8. Coca-Cola | 8. Coca-Cola |
| 9. Dow Chemical | 9. PepsiCo | 9. PepsiCo |
| 10. AT&T | 10. Tyson Foods | 10. Chevron |
However, Americans will set aside their dislike for a company if they think it will make them money. Although Walmart and Exxon Mobil top the list for most negative global impact, they are both top 10 companies in terms of where people would invest their life savings.
The data also revealed interesting differences among age and gender lines. While men listed four tech companies out of five as their top places to work (Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft), women only listed two tech companies (Amazon and Apple) in their top five.
Age also plays a large role in how Americans perceive companies. For example, the younger you are, the more likely you are to think that Google’s parent company Alphabet is more influential than Microsoft.
| Most Influential | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-59 | 60+ |
| Alphabet | #6 | #8 | #11 | #16 |
| Microsoft | #8 | #6 | #2 | #2 |
Similarly, age differences emerge when asked what company is worst for the country. Soft drink and snacks companies appear in the top 10 rankings for 18-29 year olds, but rank much lower for people over the age of 60.
| Worst for the Country | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-59 | 60+ |
| Coca-Cola | #5 | #7 | #11 | #22 |
| PepsiCo | #6 | #10 | #12 | #14 |
Other key findings from the 2016 SurveyMonkey/Fortune 100 Rankings and data on how each Fortune 100 company scored can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/rankings/fortune-100-home/
On Monday, June 6, Fortune released the Fortune 500, its annual list of the largest corporations in the United States ranked by revenue for the 2015 fiscal year. Please visit Fortune.com for additional coverage or see the June 15, 2016 issue of Fortune, on sale now.
The 2016 SurveyMonkey/Fortune 100 rankings are based on survey responses from a sample of 10,143 adults in the United States. The survey was administered on the SurveyMonkey platform with respondents from Audience, SurveyMonkey’s online panel. Companies in the 2016 listing of the Fortune 100 were compared by respondents on a set of 13 metrics in a two phase survey design conducted May 6th - May 10th and May 11th - May 18th. Data were weighted to match distributions from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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