NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Institutional Investor announces the award winners for the 8th Annual America’s Most Honored Companies Awards Dinner & Ceremony.
Portfolio managers and sell-side analysts nominated a total of 2,213 U.S. companies in this year’s All-America Executive Team rankings. Of those companies, 191 were distinguished as “Most Honored” in the full, midcap or small cap sector rankings. The following “Most Honored” companies are ranked at the top of the All-America Executive Team for their corporate leadership and investor relations expertise.
Institutional Investor’s “Most Honored Companies” will be recognized at an awards ceremony and dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Invitations to the event have been extended to the following list of “Most Honored Companies”:
Most Honored Companies
2018 All-America Executive Team
| 3M Co. | Charter Communications | Halliburton Co. | Microsoft Corp. | Square* |
| A. O. Smith Corp.* | Chevron Corp. | Harsco Corp.*** | Middleby Corp.* | Starbucks Corp. |
| Adobe Systems | Cisco Systems | Hartford Financial Services | Mohawk Industries | Steel Dynamics** |
| Aetna | Citigroup | Group | Mondelez International | SunPower Corp. |
| Alaska Air Group | CMS Energy Corp. | Hasbro | Moody's Corp. | SVB Financial Group** |
| Allergan | Coach | HCA Healthcare | Murphy USA** | Synchrony Financial |
| Alphabet | Comcast Corp. | HealthSouth Corp.* | Nabors Industries*** | Tenet Healthcare Corp.*** |
| Amazon.com | Costco Wholesale Corp. | Henry Schein | Netflix | Teradyne* |
| American Airlines Group | Cott Corp.* | Hexcel Corp.* | Newell Brands | Tesaro* |
| American Express Co. | CSXCorp. | Hilton Worldwide Holdings | Newmont Mining Corp. | Tesla |
| American Tower Corp. | Cummins | Home Depot | NextEra Energy | Texas Instruments |
| Amgen | CVS Health Corp. | Honeywell International | Nike | Thor Industries* |
| Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | D.R. Horton | HP | Northrop Grumman Corp. | T-Mobile US |
| Andeavor | Danaher Corp. | Humana | NVIDIA Corp. | Toll Brothers* |
| Apple | Deere & Co. | Innospec*** | Oclaro*** | TPG Specialty Lending*** |
| Applied Materials | Delek US Holdings* | Intercontinental Exchange | Pattern Energy Group | Ulta Beauty |
| Arch Capital Group | Delphi Automotive | International Paper Co. | Patterson-UTI Energy** | Union Pacific Corp. |
| Ares Capital Corp.* | Delta Air Lines | Interpublic Group of Cos.* | Paypal Holdings | United Continental Holdings |
| Athenahealth | Discover Financial Services | J. C. Penney Co.*** | PepsiCo | United Rentals** |
| Axalta Coating Systems* | Dollar General Corp. | Jack in the Box | Pfizer | United Technologies Corp. |
| Ball Corp. | Domino's Pizza** | Jazz Pharmaceuticals* | Phillips 66 | UnitedHealth Group |
| Bank of America Corp. | Dycom Industries | Johnson & Johnson | Pinnacle Foods** | Valero Energy Corp. |
| Baxter International | Ecolab | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Pioneer Natural Resources Co. | Veeva Systems* |
| Berry Global Group** | Eli Lilly and Co. | Kansas City Southern | Plains All American Pipeline | Verizon Communications |
| Best Buy Co. | Enterprise Products Partners | KAR Auction Services* | PPG Industries | Visa |
| Biogen | EOG Resources | Kimco Realty Corp.* | Procter & Gamble Co. | Voya Financial* |
| BlackRock | Equifax | Kraft Heinz Co. | PTC* | Walt Disney Co. |
| Boeing Co. | Equinix | Kroger Co. | Quanta Services | Waste Connections |
| BOK Financial Corp. | LendingTree** | Range Resources Corp.* | Wayfair* | |
| BorgWarner* | FedEx Corp. | Lennar Corp. | Royal Caribbean Cruises | Western Alliance Bancorp. |
| Boston Scientific Corp. | First Solar** | Lockheed Martin Corp. | S&P Global | Western Digital Corp. |
| Broadcom | Flex* | Macy's* | salesforce.com | Western Gas Partners* |
| Calpine Corp.* | Fluor Corp. | Magellan Midstream Partners | Schlumberger | Wright Medical Group* |
| Carnival Corp. | Ford Motor Co. | Marriott International | Scientific Games Corp.* | XPO Logistics* |
| Casey's General Stores | Freeport-McMoRan | Marsh & McLennan Cos. | Sealed Air Corp. | Zayo Group Holdings* |
| Caterpillar | General Electric Co. | MasTec** | Sherwin-Williams Co. | Zions Bancorp. |
| CBS Corp. | General Motors Co. | MasterCard | Simon Property Group | |
| Celgene Corp. | Goldman Sachs Group | McDonald's Corp. | Spirit Airlines* | |
| Cerner Corp. | Green Plains | MGM Resorts International | Sprouts Farmers Market |
*Midcap winner
**Full sector and midcap winner
***Small cap winner
Sponsors of the 8th Annual America’s Most Honored Companies Awards Dinner & Ceremony include UBS, IPreo, The Nuvo Group, Corbin Advisors, et al.
For more information on attending or sponsoring the Awards dinner, please contact Patricia Bertucci at pbertucci@institutionalinvestor.com or +1 212-224-3890.
To learn more about our Most Honored Companies events, please visit: www.iimosthonoredcompanies.com
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