The Wall Street Journal evaluates how leading US corps stack up in 6 areas: AI readiness, innovation, talent readiness, financial fitness, resilience and agility.
Paramount Global is mapped to the file row Paramount Skydance, ticker PSKY. It ranks #471 overall with an Overall Score of 34.6, placing it 15th out of 16 Media & Entertainment companies. The profile is weak across the board, with AI Rank #464, Talent Readiness #429, Financial Fitness #487, and Agility #353.
The Innovation field is missing, which limits interpretation, but the available data is still clearly negative. Resilience is only #267, which is not enough to offset the weak AI, talent, financial, and agility scores. Strategically, the ranking reads Paramount as a media incumbent under structural pressure, with insufficient evidence of future-ready technology, financial strength, or organizational velocity.
Source:
https://www.wsj.com/rankings/best-companies-for-the-future/full-rankings-2026