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7 Houston energy-focused businesses among Time's best midsize companies 2025
CenterPoint is one of 13 Houston companies on Time's list. Photo via centerpoint.com
Seven Houston-based businesses focused on the energy industry appear on Time magazine and Statista’s new ranking of the country’s best midsize companies.
Time and Statista ranked companies based on employee satisfaction, revenue growth, and transparency about sustainability. All 500 companies on the list have annual revenue from $100 million to $10 billion.
The Houston energy-focused companies on the list are:
- No. 141 MRC Global. Score: 85.84
- No. 176 National Oilwell Varco. Score: 84.50
- No. 266 Nabor Industries. Score: 81.59
- No. 296 Archrock. Score: 80.17
- No. 327 Superior Energy Services. Score: 79.38
- No. 359 CenterPoint Energy. Score: 78.02
- No. 461 Oceaneering. Score: 73.87
In total, 13 Houston-based businesses appear, with Houston engineering firm KBR topping the Texas businesses that made the list. KBR earned the No. 30 spot, earning a score of 91.53 out of 100. It is joined by these other Houston companies:
- No. 168 Comfort Systems USA. Score: 84.72
- No. 175 Crown Castle. Score: 84.51
- No. 234 Kirby. Score: 82.48
- No. 332 Insperity. Score: 79.15
- No. 485 Skyward Specialty Insurance. Score: 73.15
Additional Texas companies on the list include:
- No. 95 Austin-based Natera. Score: 87.26
- No. 199 Plano-based Tyler Technologies. Score: 86.49
- No. 139 McKinney-based Globe Life. Score: 85.88
- No. 140 Dallas-based Trinity Industries. Score: 85.87
- No. 149 Southlake-based Sabre. Score: 85.58
- No. 223 Dallas-based Brinker International. Score: 82.87
- No. 226 Irving-based Darling Ingredients. Score: 82.86
- No. 256 Dallas-based Copart. Score: 81.78
- No. 276 Coppell-based Brink’s. Score: 80.90
- No. 279 Dallas-based Topgolf. Score: 80.79
- No. 294 Richardson-based Lennox. Score: 80.22
- No. 308 Dallas-based Primoris Services. Score: 79.96
- No. 322 Dallas-based Wingstop Restaurants. Score: 79.49
- No. 335 Fort Worth-based Omnicell. Score: 78.95
- No. 337 Plano-based Cinemark. Score: 78.91
- No. 345 Dallas-based Dave & Buster’s. Score: 78.64
- No. 349 Dallas-based ATI. Score: 78.44
- No. 385 Frisco-based Addus HomeCare. Score: 76.86
- No. 414 New Braunfels-based Rush Enterprises. Score: 75.75
- No. 431 Dallas-based Comerica Bank. Score: 75.20
- No. 439 Austin-based Q2 Software. Score: 74.85
- No. 458 San Antonio-based Frost Bank. Score: 73.94
- No. 475 Fort Worth-based FirstCash. Score: 73.39
- No. 498 Irving-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group. Score: 72.71
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