Optum's Rank - WSJ - The 2026 Best Companies - For the Future

The Wall Street Journal evaluates how leading US corps stack up in 6 areas: AI readiness, innovation, talent readiness, financial fitness, resilience and agility.

Optum does not appear as a standalone company in the uploaded table, so I used UnitedHealth Group as the closest listed proxy. UnitedHealth ranks #89 overall with an Overall Score of 57.7, ranking 6th out of 44 companies in Health Care Equipment & Services. Its strongest factor is Financial Fitness Rank #48, with Innovation at #85 and Agility at #130.

The weaknesses are Talent Readiness #297 and Resilience #283, which are notable for a large health-services platform. The strategic read is that UnitedHealth, and by proxy Optum, screens as a financially strong, moderately innovative healthcare infrastructure company, but not as a fully resilient or talent-leading organization. The table supports a “platform with scale advantage” thesis, but not an unqualified future-readiness leadership thesis.

Source:
https://www.wsj.com/rankings/best-companies-for-the-future/full-rankings-2026

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@bz Oh no, that’s awful. I hope you are in a much better and more stable environment now.

So JP Morgan Chase was on this list to and their employees at asking how much their company paid of it. They are also laying off left right and center. Failed PR Attempt 😂

@g1 You gotta be kidding. Humana has the worst plans out there. HMO from Before Christ 😆

@g2 I’m talking about healthcare reform, not the trash company named “Change Healthcare” that brought that massive breach and added a million more layoffs to mix.

@a1 don’t say Change Healthcarw

@ag Humana is a pretty good company tho

Sounds like a bunch of random words put together. Clearly paid for.

Makes sense. I was a high achiever. Went from gl 27 to 30 in 5 years. I left because my entire leadership went to Ireland and ignored us who kept the ship afloat.

@af that was my thought too lol

@ag Hilarious and true. Humana is the bottom of the barrel. 😆

UHG has become the new Humana.

I wonder how much we paid the WSJ to write that.

Anyone looking from the outside in knows this place is a shithole. We are a joke and it’s hard to even get a new job because of the stain it leaves on our resume.

Yeah I have no doubt this sh-t is paid for or just hastily put together by someone with minimal knowledge. Not even sure how some random could determine 'innovation' of hundreds of companies with no internal experience in any of them.

Pull any random startup name out of a hat and it's going to be far better of a company by all metrics than what we have here. And it all comes down to leadership.

😆 Such nonsense. Trying to drown out all the true things people are discussing on other posts. Change, change, change and healthcare reform is needed. This company needs to be dismantled. It’s been in a downward spiral because the same awful tactics are being employed despite all the millions of alarms raised.

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