Eight Houston firms have been named to Fortune’s third annual record of America’s Most Progressive Corporations, becoming a member of one other 16 from the state of Texas.
The group of 300 firms nationwide was rated based mostly on manufacturing innovation, course of innovation, and innovation tradition, in line with Fortune. In partnership with Statista, the journal thought of IP portfolios, worker, knowledgeable and buyer opinions; and plenty of different components.
Whereas lots of the top-rated firms fell into the tech sector, Fortune stories that well being care firms made up the biggest portion of the 2025 record. Sixty-three honorees fell into the well being care class, together with Houston’s top-rated firm, Houston Methodist.
Right here’s which Houston firms made the record and the place they ranked:
- No. 35 — Houston Methodist
- No. 54 — ExxonMobil
- No. 137 — NRG Vitality
- No. 158 — Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
- No. 169 — BMC Software program
- No. 175 — Texas Youngsters’s Hospital
- No. 227 — Sysco
- No. 268 — Chevron
“This award is a real credit score to the tradition we have now created round innovation and the unbelievable work of Roberta Schwartz, our Chief Innovation Officer, and her group on the Heart for Innovation,” Marc Increase, CEO of Houston Methodist, mentioned in a LinkedIn publish. “They’ve actually set the tone for a way we will use innovation and know-how to proceed to ship the very best high quality look after our sufferers.”
Dallas-Fort Price claimed the biggest variety of Texas firms on the record, with 11 headquartered within the Metroplex. Houston was house to the second-most with eight hailing from the Bayou Metropolis. Austin is house to solely 4 of the businesses on the record, nonetheless, firms from the Capital Metropolis ranked increased on common, with Oracle, Tesla and Dell Applied sciences claiming the highest three spots for the state. Beloved Texas grocer H-E-B was the one firm to signify San Antonio.
This is how the opposite Texas firms fared:
- No. 6 — Oracle
- No. 11 — Tesla
- No. 14 — Dell Applied sciences
- No. 37 — AT&T
- No. 59 — Texas Devices
- No. 89 — Charles Schwab
- No. 91 — McKesson
- No. 113 — Jacobs Options
- No. 125 — Baylor, Scott & White Well being
- No. 165 — Frontier Communications
- No. 201— H-E-B
- No. 210 — CBRE Group
- No. 219 — TTEC Holdings
- No. 223 — GameStop
- No. 251 — American Airways Group
- No. 271 — Caterpillar
California-based tech conglomerate Alphabet Inc. topped the record for the third yr in a row, and California firms once more represented nearly all of firms on the record, in line with Fortune. Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and Salesforce made up the highest 5, of which three are headquartered in California.
The 2025 group had a median income of $22 billion during the last 12 months, in line with Fortune. See the complete report right here.
