BusinessWeek’s 2008 List of the Most Innovative Companies
Following up on my last post, here is this year’s BW list of the most innovative companies, which now accounts for three financial metrics such as:
- revenue growth and operating margin growth annualized based on 2004-2007 fiscal year earnings before interest and taxes. I’m showing companies with negative operating margin in orange.
- stock return accounts for price appreciation and dividends from the end of December of 2004 to December 2007. Note that GM, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, eBay and Southwest show negative numbers for this metric.
As usual BW’s list relies on the votes from the executives surveyed by BCG, Business Consulting Group, who completed an online questionnaire. The list of companies includes Tata, Facebook and Virgin Group which are privately held… so BW’s ranking does not show the financial metrics for those.
[1] APPLE [2] GOOGLE [3] TOYOTA MOTOR [4] GENERAL ELECTRIC
[5] MICROSOFT [6] TATA GROUP [7] NINTENDO [8] PROCTER & GAMBLE [9] SONY
[10] NOKIA [11] AMAZON.COM [12] IBM [13] RESEARCH IN MOTION [14] BMW
[15] HEWLETT-PACKARD [16] HONDA MOTOR [17] WALT DISNEY [18] GENERAL MOTORS [19] RELIANCE INDUSTRIES
[20] BOEING [21] GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP [22] 3M [23] WAL-MART STORES [24] TARGET
[25] FACEBOOK [26] SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS [27] AT&T [28] VIRGIN GROUP [29] AUDI
[30] MCDONALD’S [31] DAIMLER [32] STARBUCKS [33] EBAY [34] VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
[35] CISCO SYSTEMS [36] ING GROEP [37] SINGAPORE AIRLINES [38] SIEMENS [39] COSTCO WHOLESALE
[40] HSBC [41] BANK OF AMERICA [42] EXXON MOBIL [43] NEWS CORP. [44] BP
[45] NIKE [46] DELL [47] VODAFONE GROUP [48] INTEL [49] SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
[50] AMERICAN EXPRESS
Data source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_17/b4081061866744.htm
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