The Wall Street Journal evaluates how leading US corps stack up in 6 areas: AI readiness, innovation, talent readiness, financial fitness, resilience and agility.
CVS Health ranks #295 overall with an Overall Score of 47.9, placing it 26th out of 44 Health Care Equipment & Services companies. The positive signal is AI Rank #66, which is fairly strong, and Resilience Rank #88, which is also credible. Those two factors show the company is not a simple laggard.
The issue is that the rest of the profile is weak. CVS ranks #444 in Talent Readiness, #425 in Agility, and #348 in Financial Fitness. Strategically, the data reads CVS as a healthcare scale player with some AI and resilience advantages, but significant organizational and financial drag. The company has assets, but the ranking does not yet see a coherent future-ready operating model.
Source:
https://www.wsj.com/rankings/best-companies-for-the-future/full-rankings-2026