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Industry Rank | Company | State | Industry | Score | Environmental Score | Social Score | Corporate Governance Score |
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1 | Illumina | California | Health Care & Life Sciences | 90.9 | 95.5 | 88.0 | 89.4 |
2 | Merck & Co | New Jersey | Health Care & Life Sciences | 88.1 | 88.5 | 82.2 | 93.5 |
3 | Waters | Massachusetts | Health Care & Life Sciences | 87.7 | 100.0 | 81.4 | 81.8 |
4 | Abbott Laboratories | Illinois | Health Care & Life Sciences | 86.4 | 86.2 | 88.4 | 84.8 |
5 | Cigna | Connecticut | Health Care & Life Sciences | 86.4 | 81.2 | 83.4 | 94.7 |
6 | Baxter International | Illinois | Health Care & Life Sciences | 86.1 | 91.4 | 88.8 | 78.1 |
7 | Varian Medical Systems | California | Health Care & Life Sciences | 85.8 | 83.0 | 88.6 | 86.0 |
8 | Becton Dickinson | New Jersey | Health Care & Life Sciences | 84.6 | 88.8 | 90.0 | 75.0 |
9 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | New York | Health Care & Life Sciences | 83.7 | 91.8 | 95.8 | 63.5 |
10 | Edwards Lifesciences | California | Health Care & Life Sciences | 83.5 | 67.9 | 84.5 | 98.2 |
11 | Boston Scientific | Massachusetts | Health Care & Life Sciences | 83.5 | 80.7 | 84.0 | 85.8 |
12 | Agilent Technologies | California | Health Care & Life Sciences | 83.5 | 85.8 | 76.3 | 88.4 |
13 | Amgen | California | Health Care & Life Sciences | 82.9 | 87.2 | 88.2 | 73.5 |
14 | Biogen | Massachusetts | Health Care & Life Sciences | 81.4 | 77.6 | 78.6 | 88.1 |
15 | Resmed | California | Health Care & Life Sciences | 79.5 | 72.1 | 86.6 | 80.0 |
16 | Eli Lilly and Co | Indiana | Health Care & Life Sciences | 78.5 | 76.5 | 86.8 | 72.4 |
17 | Leidos | Virginia | Health Care & Life Sciences | 78.0 | 82.4 | 63.6 | 88.2 |
18 | Alexion Pharmaceuticals | Massachusetts | Health Care & Life Sciences | 75.6 | 85.8 | 68.4 | 72.5 |
19 | CVS Health | Rhode Island | Health Care & Life Sciences | 74.9 | 53.8 | 80.6 | 90.4 |
20 | Quest Diagnostics | New York | Health Care & Life Sciences | 74.4 | 56.5 | 86.2 | 80.5 |
21 | AMN Healthcare Services | California | Health Care & Life Sciences | 74.3 | 65.1 | 77.1 | 80.6 |
22 | Varex Imaging | Utah | Health Care & Life Sciences | 72.1 | 79.1 | 67.4 | 69.8 |
23 | Catalent | New Jersey | Health Care & Life Sciences | 71.1 | 62.6 | 83.2 | 67.6 |
24 | Avanos Medical | Georgia | Health Care & Life Sciences | 70.0 | 71.8 | 74.6 | 63.6 |
25 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | Massachusetts | Health Care & Life Sciences | 69.4 | 65.2 | 90.1 | 52.9 |
26 | Hill-Rom Holdings | Indiana | Health Care & Life Sciences | 67.6 | 68.0 | 68.1 | 66.8 |
27 | UnitedHealth Group | Minnesota | Health Care & Life Sciences | 65.9 | 69.7 | 70.0 | 58.2 |
28 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings | Indiana | Health Care & Life Sciences | 65.5 | 58.4 | 61.6 | 76.6 |
29 | PerkinElmer | Massachusetts | Health Care & Life Sciences | 65.2 | 59.2 | 67.6 | 68.7 |
30 | Dentsply Sirona | Pennsylvania | Health Care & Life Sciences | 62.8 | 43.2 | 73.3 | 72.0 |
31 | Bristol-Myers Squibb | New York | Health Care & Life Sciences | 62.5 | 46.9 | 71.5 | 69.2 |
32 | Humana | Kentucky | Health Care & Life Sciences | 62.5 | 46.2 | 69.6 | 71.6 |
33 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Massachusetts | Health Care & Life Sciences | 62.4 | 42.8 | 67.3 | 77.0 |
34 | LabCorp | North Carolina | Health Care & Life Sciences | 62.2 | 51.8 | 68.2 | 66.8 |
35 | Danaher | D.C. | Health Care & Life Sciences | 59.7 | 42.0 | 72.4 | 64.9 |
36 | IQVIA Holdings | Connecticut | Health Care & Life Sciences | 59.5 | 43.2 | 69.2 | 66.1 |
Methodology
Our corporate ranking was a four-phase process. First, we created a pool of candidates. We selected the 2,000 largest public companies by revenue in the U.S.—banks and insurance companies were measured by total assets more than $50 billion. Next we screened. Only companies that had published a document the same or similar to a Corporate Responsibility Report were considered (Corporate Citizen Report or Sustainability Report, for example). Some companies whose primary business is in the defense industry were eliminated as were companies involved in lawsuits or government regulatory actions. Part three of the process was a detailed analysis of the companies consisting of two parts. The first: We focused on publicly available performance data in the environmental, social and corporate governance categories. We also conducted a survey, asking 7,500 U.S. citizens about their perceptions of the companies related to corporate social responsibility. All elements were weighted to produce a final score. For the methodology in detail please download this document.
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