Apple has returned to the top ranking position on Barron’s annual ranking of the world’s most-respected companies, not only surpassing last year’s top-rated company Berkshire Hathaway, but greatly surpassing any other entrants’ score. The company had spent the previous five years in the number one position in the survey until last year, when it sank to third place following a precipitous drop in its stock, which saw the company lose half of its value until the spring of 2013….
