America’s Most Responsible Companies 2026

For some consumers, what’s important isn’t just what a company offers but how they manufacture or provide those products or services. For businesses, committing to sustainability initiatives, helping those in the community or offering robust benefits to workers isn’t only an ethical choice: When consumers and investors know that a company is socially conscious, they are more likely to align themselves with it.

According to a study by The Roundup, 84 percent of customers say that they are deterred from companies with poor environmental practices, and 62 percent “always or often” specifically look for products that are sustainable.

That is why Newsweek is proud to partner with Statista for the seventh time to present America’s Most Responsible Companies 2026, highlighting 600 companies that are taking action each day to uphold their social responsibility.

This ranking is built on an evaluation of company CSR/ESG or sustainability reports, financial reports, history of lawsuits and 2024 top polluter indexes from the Political Economy Research Institute. Additionally, over 30 KPIs were researched from the three areas of ESG—environmental, social and governance performance. Companies included in this ranking are American Tower, Ingersoll Rand, Las Vegas Sands, NVIDIA and Tapestry.

We hope this list helps you find companies that you feel good about supporting.

Rank Overall	Company	HQ City	HQ State	Industry	Industry Rank	Score Overall	Score Environmental Concerns	Score Social Concerns	Score Governance Concerns
1	NVIDIA	Santa Clara	CA	Technology	1	92.82	100	90.36	88.11
2	Mastercard	Purchase	NY	Financial	1	91.37	95.84	95.55	82.73
3	Palo Alto Networks	Santa Clara	CA	Technology	2	89.76	83.15	96.27	89.88
4	Ecolab	St. Paul	MN	Materials & Chemicals	1	89.73	88.35	96.83	84.00
5	T-Mobile	Bellevue	WA	Media & Telecommunications	1	89.53	94.52	94.35	79.70
6	Qualcomm	San Diego	CA	Technology	3	89.48	93.39	75.05	100
7	Merck	Rahway	NJ	Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals	1	88.85	83.29	96.25	87.00
8	HP	Palo Alto	CA	Technology	4	88.26	86.14	100	78.65
9	Public Service Enterprise Group	Newark	NJ	Energy & Utilities	1	87.64	84.62	92.47	85.82
10	Nasdaq	New York City	NY	Financial	2	87.09	93.09	87.16	81.01
11	Lam Research	Fremont	CA	Technology	5	86.74	93.83	82.64	83.75
12	Tapestry	New York City	NY	Retail & Consumer Goods	1	86.67	91.74	83.64	84.62
13	Keysight	Santa Rosa	CA	Technology	6	86.60	81.80	92.14	85.85
14	Illumina	San Diego	CA	Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals	2	86.48	83.80	90.42	85.22
15	MetLife	New York City	NY	Financial	3	85.81	91.97	81.93	83.54
16	Visa	San Francisco	CA	Financial	4	85.70	90.66	83.11	83.33
17	Thermo Fisher Scientific	Waltham	MA	Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals	3	85.66	84.13	84.66	88.19
18	General Mills	Minneapolis	MN	Retail & Consumer Goods	2	85.47	90.81	92.07	73.54
19	IFF	New York City	NY	Materials & Chemicals	2	85.41	74.46	93.14	88.63
20	BorgWarner	Auburn Hills	MI	Automotive & Components	1	85.31	89.39	84.42	82.12
21	Teradata	San Diego	CA	Software	1	85.27	92.29	71.17	92.34
22	Ingersoll Rand	Davidson	NC	Capital Goods	1	85.21	87.84	83.39	84.40
23	Analog Devices	Wilmington	MA	Technology	7	85.14	84.62	80.81	89.97
24	Applied Materials	Santa Clara	CA	Technology	8	84.71	87.53	84.32	82.28
25	Humana	Louisville	KY	Financial	5	84.61	89.83	87.43	76.58
26	Advanced Micro Devices	Santa Clara	CA	Technology	9	84.58	90.73	80.64	82.39
27	PayPal	San Jose	CA	Financial	6	84.07	86.51	84.47	81.21
28	Morningstar	Chicago	IL	Financial	7	84.06	83.02	83.13	86.02
29	American Tower	Boston	MA	Real Estate & Housing	1	84.00	85.29	81.95	84.77
30	Adobe	San Jose	CA	Software	2	83.90	89.05	82.61	80.04
31	Agilent	Santa Clara	CA	Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals	4	83.86	80.40	92.39	78.80
32	Salesforce	San Francisco	CA	Software	3	83.69	83.03	83.28	84.76
33	S&P Global	New York City	NY	Financial	8	83.66	97.50	88.81	64.68
34	Dolby	San Francisco	CA	Technology	10	83.66	83.86	77.55	89.57
35	Emerson	St. Louis	MO	Capital Goods	2	83.53	91.74	75.50	83.35
36	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Spring	TX	Technology	11	83.42	92.42	79.19	78.63
37	Otis	Farmington	CT	Capital Goods	3	83.33	86.04	79.22	84.74
38	UnitedHealth Group	Eden Prairie	MN	Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals	5	83.33	84.56	92.66	72.76
39	Grainger	Lake Forest	IL	Capital Goods	4	83.28	83.27	80.25	86.32
40	CBRE	Dallas	TX	Real Estate & Housing	2	83.26	89.71	82.02	78.05
41	Xerox	Norwalk	CT	Technology	12	83.15	85.38	82.70	81.36
42	Avery Dennison	Mentor	OH	Capital Goods	5	83.12	82.43	79.08	87.86
43	Dell Technologies	Round Rock	TX	Technology	13	83.06	93.17	69.42	86.60
44	Micron	Boise	ID	Technology	14	83.06	77.32	92.16	79.69
45	Zurn Elkay Water Solutions	Milwaukee	WI	Capital Goods	6	83.01	86.15	71.59	91.29
46	DXC Technology	Ashburn	VA	Professional Services	1	83.00	92.02	72.14	84.84
47	Regeneron	Tarrytown	NY	Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals	6	82.82	77.67	93.16	77.65
48	IBM	Armonk	NY	Technology	15	82.75	81.29	93.01	73.94
49	Ciena	Hanover	MD	Media & Telecommunications	2	82.68	94.07	78.76	75.22
50	Motorola Solutions	Chicago	IL	Technology	16	82.67	84.29	80.52	83.21

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