Symbol Stock Price change today
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. 2.485%
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc 2.3319%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 2.1721%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. 1.959%
FB Facebook Inc 1.8689%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 1.857%
MIDD Middleby Corp 1.5066%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc 1.2868%
AMZN Amazon 0.9443%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 0.8096%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 0.7783%
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.7493%
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. 0.6716%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 0.5917%
SUI Sun Communities Inc 0.4996%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.4775%
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc 0.4739%
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation 0.3489%
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc 0.2893%
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp 0.2742%
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. 0.1314%
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc 0.1165%
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. 0.0507%
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. 0%
COF Capital One Financial Corp. -0.0426%
MET Metlife Inc -0.0754%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -0.1011%
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings -0.1282%
MCK McKesson Corporation -0.146%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. -0.3367%
PCLN Priceline Group Inc -0.3386%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc -0.3706%
AAPL Apple Inc. -0.3714%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. -0.5107%
HZO MarineMax Inc -0.9368%
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation -1.1355%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc -1.1578%
TRN Trinity Industries Inc -1.303%
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc -1.3037%
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. -1.369%
UA Under Armour Inc -1.4505%
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. -1.7825%
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. -2.0327%
THRM Gentherm Inc -2.0558%
HSKA Heska Corp -2.284%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. -2.3342%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. -2.5462%
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. -3.67%

If you are looking for a list of companies to consider for your portfolio, shouldn’t this list be considered?

Hailed as the father of modern management, Mr. Drucker influenced generations of business leaders with his writings, including a regular column in The Wall Street Journal. His principles of what makes a well-managed organization have never before been translated into a quantitative model to measure how effectively a company is run.

The Management Top 250 does just that. The ranking—compiled by the Drucker Institute, founded in 2007 to advance the ideals of the management sage—differs from other “best of” lists in that it doesn’t measure any single aspect of a company’s prowess, such as profits or productivity. Rather it takes a holistic approach, examining how well a business does in five areas that reflect Mr. Drucker’s core principles: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength.

To measure a business’s success in each dimension, the Drucker Institute—part of Claremont Graduate University outside of Los Angeles—scored how companies stacked up in 37 specific metrics, from market-share data to patent applications to employee ratings on the career-review site Glassdoor. The companies listed in the Management Top 250 are the highest scorers among 608 U.S. corporations studied that in the fall of 2016 belonged either to the S&P 500 stock index or Fortune 500 list or had a market value of more than $10 billion. The ranking methodology hasn’t been formally peer-reviewed.

The big question to any investor: how many companies in my Watch List score well on this list. Here are my results.

Stock ticker Stock name Drucker Institute ranking
AMZN Amazon 1
AAPL Apple Inc. 2
GOOGL Alphabet Inc 3
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation 10
SBUX Starbucks Corporation 25
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. 42
FB Facebook Inc 44
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp 55
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 64
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. 137
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc 148
COF Capital One Financial Corp. 153
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc 159
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 175
UA Under Armour Inc 179
MCK McKesson Corporation 186
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 194
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation 206

The Management Top 250 ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute, measures corporate effectiveness by examining performance in five areas: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility, and financial strength. The ranking is based on an analysis of 37 data inputs provided by 12 third-party sources. The five areas are weighted nearly equally in calculating a score that is the basis of the ranking. Not all data inputs are available for all companies in the ranking; companies are excluded from the ranking if fewer than two data inputs are available for any of the five areas.

The Management Top 250 includes the top U.S. companies from a universe of 693 publicly traded companies that were included in a Drucker Institute study. To be included in the study universe, companies met these criteria: they were listed in the Fortune 500, had stock that was a component of the S&P 500 index, or had a stock-market capitalization of $10 billion or more when snapshots were taken for the Drucker study in September and October 2016. Financial data inputs were updated as of June 30, 2017; all other data inputs were updated during the first half of 2017.

There are many great reasons why companies in your portfolio are not included in this list. Namely, the Drucker list focuses on the Fortune 500 and the S&P500. This implies companies that are quite large and therefore may not have enough growth to warrant your investment dollar. This is the primary reason that much of my Watch List is missing.

Source: The 250 Most Effectively Managed U.S. Companies—and How They Got That Way – WSJ

Stock ticker Stock name Last Close Recommendation
AAPL Apple Inc. $169.6400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $187.9600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation $232.5000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $227.3600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $108.9000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $50.0800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AMZN Amazon $1141.5700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. $170.3000 Strong Buy or Hold
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $168.9600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings $156.0500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc $81.3100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
COF Capital One Financial Corp. $93.9100 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $50.4000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. $150.0500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $185.5000 Strong Buy or Hold
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp $113.0500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. $84.8700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
FB Facebook Inc $172.8300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GOOGL Alphabet Inc $1019.6000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $14.8500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc $77.2800 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $5.6100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc $50.6400 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
HSKA Heska Corp $84.9400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HZO MarineMax Inc $21.3500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. $159.7800 Strong Buy or Hold
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc $38.0200 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $66.3600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MCK McKesson Corporation $150.6900 Strong Buy or Hold
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. $45.5000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MET Metlife Inc $53.0400 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MIDD Middleby Corp $124.1200 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation $63.0500 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. $55.7700 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $184.2100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $187.7400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
PCLN Priceline Group Inc $1724.8800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $372.3400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc $184.4000 Strong Buy or Hold
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $59.3400 Strong Buy or Hold
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. $216.8200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SUI Sun Communities Inc $94.0700 Strong Buy or Hold
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $97.6000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
THRM Gentherm Inc $34.0500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $182.4500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TRN Trinity Industries Inc $36.0700 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
UA Under Armour Inc $11.7200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $223.9700 Strong Buy or Hold