The firm Thomson Reuters has published a new ranking where we find the 100 most important technology companies in the world, a ranking designed to identify which are "the most stable and successful organizations in operational and financial terms in the industry." In this first classification, we have to go down to sixth position to find the Cupertino guys.
Apple ranks sixth behind Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, IBM, and Alphabet and ahead of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), SAP, Texas Instruments, and Accenture. According to Thomson Reuters, each company has been evaluated using a 28-point algorithm to "objectively identify organizations with the strength to face today's and future complex business environment."
To make this classification Reuters It has been based on eight categories: Finance, Direction and Investor Confidence, Risk and Resistance, Legal Compliance, Innovation, Workforce and Social Responsibility, Environmental Impact, and Reputation. According to Alex Paladino, global managing director of the technology practice group:
Technology companies operate at breakneck speed when facing the challenges of competition, regulation and legal. financial, logistics and a host of other obstacles within the business world. Their financial success often overshadows their operational integrity, making it difficult to identify those companies with true future potential. With the list of the 100 Most Important Technology Companies in the World, we have identified the unique data that embodies leadership within the technology industry of the 21st century; my congratulations to all the companies that have entered the list.
The most important technology companies in the world Outshine 5.000 other tech companies in the tech sector, outperform the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and MSCI World Indices in internatural price changes by 3,91%, 4,04% and 7,1% respectively. In addition, they outperform global indices on other factors such as year-on-year investment in Research and Development and the percentage of employee turnover. Outside of the Top 10, we find Amazon, Facebook, Mastercard, Samsung, Qualcomm and Pegatron in order. Other companies that are also part of this classification with Nvidia, Symantec or VMware among others.
The researchers didn't go into Apple's performance stats for each of the eight categories, but they did provide some data on the overall ranking. Total, 45 percent of the 100 companies are headquartered in the United States, followed by Japan and Taiwan both in second place with 13 companies each. In third place we find India with 5 companies. In terms of continents, North America led with 47 companies, Asia followed closely with 38, Europe with 14, and Australia with one.
The full report delves into the details and breaks down how each individual category was investigated for companies. For example, the number of patents granted that are granted each year is taken into account in innovation while the overall score in the media measured the reputation of each company. For legal compliance, Thomson Reuters measured the amount of litigation in which the company was sued in the areas of employment / labor, intellectual property, business law and contracts, civil rights and unfair competition.