- A report in Fortune Magazine for March 2022 listed 50 World's Most Admired (WMA) companies based on a poll of "some 3,700 corporate executives, directors, and analysts."
- Just as it dominates our economy, Big Tech now dominates Fortune’s annual ranking of corporate reputation. For the third year in a row, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft rank first, second, and third.
- As of 2/11/22 data from YCharts, the top ten of 36 WMA dividend paying companies ranged 2.53%-4.94% by annual yield, and ranged 30.28%-58.33% per broker estimated target price upsides.
- Top ten February WMA dividend dogs, MMM, LOW, SBUX, MRK, WMT, MSFT, TGT, ACN, BLK, and FDX ranged 20.83% to 33.23% in one-year broker estimated net gains.
- $5k invested in the lowest priced five of ten top yield World's Most Admired company holdings showed 4.81% less net gain than from $5k invested in all ten. Bigger, higher-priced stocks led the WMA dividend pack as of February 11 data.
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Fortune's 48 World's Most Admired Companies Excluded Ideal Dividend Dogs