Announcing the Release of the 2025 Ranking of America’s Most JUST Companies
Today, JUST Capital, in partnership with CNBC, is proud to announce the JUST 100 list as part of the 2025 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies. Each year, JUST Capital begins by polling the American public on a fully representative basis on their priorities for business behavior. It then evaluates how the largest corporations in the country perform against those criteria. Leading companies are recognized for their performance on top priority issues such as: paying fair, living wages; supporting worker well-being; career advancement, training, and work-life balance; treating customers fairly; creating value for shareholders; communicating transparently; strengthening communities; and ethical leadership.
The Top 10 Most JUST Companies of 2025 are:
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (second year at #1)
- HP Inc.
- Bank of America Corporation
- Union Pacific Corp
- Accenture plc
- Trane Technologies
- Eversource Energy
- The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
- Citigroup Inc
- The Cigna Group
“Hewlett Packard Enterprise is honored to be recognized as #1 by JUST Capital in their 2025 Rankings for the second year in a row,” says HPE CEO Antonio Neri. “This recognition validates the work we have been doing to understand and serve all our stakeholders in order to drive marketing-leading performance.”
The Public’s Priorities Power The Rankings
In a year marked by significant geopolitical, cultural, and economic change, business leaders are under pressure with high performance expectations and intense scrutiny. The central message from the public, as detailed in JUST Capital’s Americans Views on Business Report and Polling released in 2024, is clear: focus on the basics, do right by your customers, look after your workers, create value for your shareholders, and lead with integrity.
Despite being highly polarized on political issues, Americans are generally united in their expectations for corporations – particularly in areas where positive corporate conduct dovetails with positive business performance – and concerned about kitchen table issues like their economic well-being, how they are treated as consumers, and being able to support their families. Many appear to be distrustful of institutions as they call for increased transparency, corporate accountability, and ethical leadership.
The JUST Capital 2025 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies and JUST 100 list celebrate top-performing Russell 1000 companies that are demonstrating leadership in meeting these concerns and responding to the needs of the American people. By tapping into public sentiment, these Rankings offer corporate leaders an objective, empirical roadmap across stakeholder issues that helps businesses navigate a changing socio-political and economic landscape in order to unlock enduring business value.
JUST Business Is Better Business
This promise of value creation is not mere conjecture. As of December 31, 2024 the JULCD (212.2%) – which tracks the top 50% of Russell 1000 companies ranked by JUST Capital by industry, and is constructed to match its industry weights – has out-performed Russell 1000 Cap-Weighted Benchmark ( 202.04%) by 10.11% since inception. The JUST 100 (116.7%) – which includes the top 100 Russell 1000 companies ranked by JUST Capital – has out-performed Russell 1000 Equally Weighted Benchmark (70.8%) by 45.8% since inception.
“JUST Capital Rankings stand apart because they measure companies against what matters most: the priorities set by the American public,” says JUST Capital CEO Martin Whittaker. “When companies – like those featured in this year’s Rankings – actively deliver on stakeholder expectations, namely those of American workers, consumers, and shareholders, they create enduring business value while advancing solutions to our nation’s most pressing economic challenges. It’s a powerful win-win.”
Introducing: JUST Intelligence
Today’s corporate leadership demands data-driven insights that align with stakeholder interests and drive lasting value. JUST Capital is excited to introduce JUST Intelligence – a cutting-edge analytics tool that empowers companies to navigate complex stakeholder issues and fuels their competitive advantage.
This year, all ranked companies will have access to standard JUST Intelligence features including an interactive explorer of their performance in the 2025 Rankings and highlights of their highest and lowest performing data points. JUST Intelligence subscribers can dive deeper on critical data points, benchmark against peers, and identify best practices of top-performing companies.
“In a rapidly evolving and high-pressure landscape, today’s corporate leaders need a strategic insider to support their competitive edge. JUST Intelligence is that strategic insider,” says Whittaker. “We are extremely proud to bring empirical evidence to corporate leaders that allows them to cut through the noise, benchmark their performance, make smarter decisions, and ultimately be more successful in the marketplace.”
