The Wall Street Journal evaluates how leading US corps stack up in 6 areas: AI readiness, innovation, talent readiness, financial fitness, resilience and agility.
Honeywell ranks #46 overall with an Overall Score of 62.5, placing it 2nd out of 55 companies in Capital Goods. Its strengths are broad: Talent Readiness Rank #27, Innovation #39, Financial Fitness #102, and AI #103. That is a very strong showing for an industrial company.
The main weakness is Agility Rank #300, with Resilience only #166. The data suggests Honeywell is a high-quality industrial technology company with strong human capital and innovation signals, but not a particularly fast-moving organization. Strategically, Honeywell looks like one of the few old-economy industrials with credible future-readiness, although its scale and complexity still show up in agility.
Source:
https://www.wsj.com/rankings/best-companies-for-the-future/full-rankings-2026