Amazon Takes Top Spot in 2027 America’s Best Companies Ranking

Amazon ranked first in the 2027 America’s Best Companies ranking, moving ahead of Berkshire Hathaway as the list weighs corporate results alongside employee, customer and other measures.

Amazon led the ranking, ahead of Apple, NVIDIA, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorganChase. Berkshire led the prior edition, while Amazon advanced from second place.

Amazon’s position marks a three-edition climb: it was No. 169 in 2025, rose to No. 2 in 2026 and reached No. 1 in 2027. The ranking compares companies across sectors rather than measuring a single industry.

To qualify, companies had to be headquartered in the United States, or be foreign companies with a U.S. headquarters, and employ more than 5,000 people. The 2027 edition ranks 500 companies that met those criteria.

Scores draw on more than 120 measures organized into 12 categories. The categories include financial performance and business trajectory; employee and customer sentiment; and operational areas such as cybersecurity, labor practices, sustainability and innovation. Media sentiment, workforce stability and company size also factor into the evaluation.

The scorecard combines financial measures with assessments of workplaces, customer views and other operating factors, so the ranking is not based solely on revenue, market value or stock returns. Category scores were normalized and, where appropriate, adjusted against sector peers before being combined.

Amazon’s placement reflected its financial strength and size, media sentiment, and the range of voices across the company and its leadership. Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people, experience and technology, said the company’s approach centers on customer needs.

“Innovating for customers, doing it fast, working backwards from their needs, that’s really at our core,” Galetti said.

The measures cover periods ranging from one to five years, and data collection ended between late summer and early fall. Those different windows bring together longer-range and newer indicators; the ranking is not a real-time assessment of company performance.