Industry Ranking - Capital Goods

By Newsweek

Companies, we all know, need to make a profit to prosper and survive. Making a buck, after all, is important to investors, employees and vendors. But over the years, executives have come to realize that they need to do much more. That is, by giving back to the communities they operate in and standing up as good neighbors and citizens.

Newsweek partnered with global data research firm Statista Inc. to publish our first ranking of America's Most Responsible Companies. As you will see from our description of the methodology, Statista worked from a universe of 2000 public companies to determine which firms were tops when it came to doing good.

Here are the 300 best.

Industry Rank	Company	State	Industry	Score	Environmental Score	Social Score	Corporate Governance Score
1	Emerson Electric	Missouri	Capital Goods	82.9	74.8	84.3	89.7
2	First Solar	Arizona	Capital Goods	80.8	70.0	84.4	88.0
3	United Technologies	Connecticut	Capital Goods	80.0	90.8	78.1	71.4
4	Xylem	New York	Capital Goods	77.8	64.2	79.2	90.1
5	3M	Minnesota	Capital Goods	77.5	57.1	90.9	84.7
6	Fluor Corporation	Texas	Capital Goods	76.9	82.4	79.3	69.0
7	Owens Corning	Ohio	Capital Goods	75.6	59.9	84.5	82.6
8	Grainger	Illinois	Capital Goods	74.5	64.3	82.3	76.8
9	Deere & Company	Illinois	Capital Goods	70.5	55.4	80.7	75.4
10	BizLink Holding	California	Capital Goods	70.2	54.4	68.9	87.5
11	Masco	Michigan	Capital Goods	68.8	47.0	79.0	80.6
12	Textron	Rhode Island	Capital Goods	68.3	66.8	68.4	69.6
13	Fortive	Washington	Capital Goods	67.6	53.9	76.0	73.0
14	Oshkosh	Wisconsin	Capital Goods	67.3	43.5	75.3	83.2
15	Univar	Washington	Capital Goods	66.4	54.3	68.3	76.7
16	Flowserve	Texas	Capital Goods	66.4	56.6	65.6	77.0
17	Tennant	Minnesota	Capital Goods	65.8	57.7	56.3	83.5
18	Illinois Tool Works	Illinois	Capital Goods	64.9	55.3	72.6	66.7
19	Rockwell Automation	Wisconsin	Capital Goods	64.7	63.6	61.1	69.5
20	Watts Water Technologies	Massachusetts	Capital Goods	63.4	39.3	71.3	79.7
21	Parker Hannifin	Ohio	Capital Goods	63.4	56.5	59.5	74.3
22	ITT	New York	Capital Goods	61.7	45.2	64.1	75.9
23	Caterpillar	Illinois	Capital Goods	61.5	41.7	64.6	78.3
24	SPX	North Carolina	Capital Goods	61.4	49.6	62.0	72.5
25	Donaldson	Minnesota	Capital Goods	60.5	47.5	64.1	70.0
26	Regal	Wisconsin	Capital Goods	60.3	33.6	68.0	79.3

Methodology

The analysis was carried out in a 4 phase process, with a pool of over 2,000 companies that were screened by different criteria. The detailed analysis consisted of an independent survey among 6,500 U.S. citizens and research based on publicly available key performance indicators derived from Corporate Annual Reports, CSR Reports, Sustainability Reports, and Corporate Citizenship Reports. The independent survey was administered using an online access panel. The full methodology is available here.

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