I find it predictable that these ratings are highly correlated to the Company's stock price performance over the last few years. It's no suprise that Apple and Google are at the top of the list after lining their employee's pockets with billions of dollars in stock option wealth, free meals and countless boondoggles, and, best of all for employees but worst of all for non-employee shareholders, corrupt re-pricing of stock options if they are not in the money. American greed is alive and well, in the financial community as well as the tech community....just put money in people's wallets and they will love you, even if your overall management practices and organization are corrupt and unethical (a la' Steve Jobs criminal behavior in re-pricing AAPL stock options several years ago to line his and other employees wallets with hundreds of millions of dollars).