Extel has released the datasets on the U.S. corporates. Delta, Eli Lilly, JPMorgan Chase, NVIDIA, Quanta Services, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Visa took first place in every category for their sectors. And Walmart recorded the 2026 survey's highest weighted score.

Nominations rose sharply. A total of 1,949 companies were nominated across 44 sectors, up from 1,425 in 2025. Voters included 2,895 money managers and buy-side analysts and 269 sell-side researchers, drawn from firms covering the region, including those who voted in Extel’s 2026 All-America Research Team survey. They named the best CEOs, CFOs and investor relations professionals in their coverage universes and gave anonymized feedback.

You can view the data here and an article featuring a Q&A with 'All-star' winning Visa's CEO, Ryan McInerney and fellow top ranking CEOs, Drew Marsh, CEO of Entergy and Michael Rapino, CEO of Live Nation.