Research a
Company (U.S.):
Selected Resources
For guidelines
on company research, see How to
Find Company and Industry Information. For Minnesota
companies, see Minnesota
Business: Selected Resources. Resources listed below are
available at both the Keffer and O'Shaughnessy-Frey
Libraries.
Company overviews
and directory information
- Business
and Company Resource Center. (UST subscription
database)
Company profiles with links to related articles and
investment reports.
- Mergent
Online.
(UST subscription database)
Company information and SEC filings.
- Standard & Poor's Stock
Reports. (UST subscription
database)
Earnings, balance sheet data, and outlooks for companies that are traded on the three
major stock exchanges.
- Factiva. (UST
subscription database)
Company profiles, financials, and articles. Choose
the Companies/Markets tab, then choose Company.
- Hoover's Company
Reports in
Lexis-Nexis Business. (UST subs. database)
Choose Company Profiles, and select Hoover Company
Reports from the source pull-down. "Capsules" are
brief company reports, "Profiles" are longer.
- Reference
USA. (UST subscription
database)
Directory information for 12 million U.S. public and private
companies.
- Yahoo Company
Profiles. (from
Market Guide)
http://biz.yahoo.com/i/
- (Minnesota)
Fact Book.
(formerly Corporate Report Fact
Book.) Also Ref. HG 5127
.C66
Local and regional companies.
- Hoover's Handbook of American Business.
Ref. HG 4057 .A28617
- International Directory of Company Histories. Ref.
HD 2721 .D56
- Ward's Business
Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies. Ref. HG 4057 .A57 W382
Private company information
- Lexis-Nexis
Business. (UST
subscription database)
Choose Company Profiles and select U.S.
Private Companies from the source pull-down.
- Reference
USA. (UST subscription
database).
Directory information for public and private companies.
- Factiva.
(UST
subscription database)
Choose the
Companies/Markets tab.
- LexisNexis Corporate
Affiliations. Ref. HG 4057 .A218
- Hoover's Handbook of
Private Companies.
Ref. HG 4057 .A28616
- Ward's Business
Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies. Ref. HG 4057 .A57 W382
For subsidiaries,
branches, or divisions, try Business
and Company Resource Center (under the parent company or subsidiary
name.) For foreign-owned companies, start with Mergent
Online or Factiva.
Financial data and SEC filings
- Locating Annual
Reports. (UST guide)
- Mergent
Online. (UST subscription
database)
Company information and SEC filings. After searching for a company, choose the
Company
Financials tab.
- Factiva.
(UST
subscription database)
Company profiles, financials, and articles. Choose
the Companies/Markets
tab, then Company, and search; under "Additional
Links" on your company's page choose "SEC Filings."
- Disclosure
Reports in
Lexis-Nexis Business. (UST
subscription database)
Choose Company Financial Reports.
- SEC Filings
in
Lexis/Nexis Business. (UST
subscription database)
Choose SEC Filings & Reports.
- SEC Filings via
EDGAR.
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
- Business
Filings Databases.
Links to corporate and business filings from all 50
states.
http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup29.htm
- Stock Research Sites on the
Web. (Univ. of Washington Libraries)
Evaluates online stock sites.
http://depts.washington.edu/balib/stocksites/
- Yahoo Finance Historical
Quotes.
http://biz.yahoo.com/r/
Competitor information
- Finding
SIC or NAICS Codes for a Company. (UST guide)
-
Standard & Poor's
Stock Reports.
(UST subscription database)
Search by company name or
ticker. Links to competitor lists are on the left-hand
side.
-
Factiva.
(UST
subscription database)
Choose the
Companies/Markets tab, then Company, and
search. Scroll down and look on the bottom for the link
to the competition list.
- Value Line. (UST subscription database.)
Choose Lookup Industry and browse the
appropriate industry. (Also paper copies at Keffer and OSF)
- Mergent
Online.
(UST subscription database)
For competitors by industry, search by SIC code or
NAICS code.
- Yahoo Company
Profiles. (from
Market Guide)
http://biz.yahoo.com/i/
- Reference
USA. (UST subscription
database)
Directory information for public and private companies. Search by SIC code,
NAICS
code, or company
business description.
- LexisNexis Corporate
Affiliations. Ref. HG 4057 .A218
- Ward's Business
Directory. Ref. HG 4057 .A57 W382
Company analysis
-
Investext Select Investment Reports. (UST subscription
database)
Covers 11,000 U.S. and international companies.
- Value Line.
(UST subscription
database)
Reports on leading companies in over 90 industries. Older issues (back to 1984) are on microfiche. Also paper copies at Keffer
and OSF Libraries.
- Standard & Poor's Stock
Reports. (UST subscription
database)
Search by company name or ticker. Earnings, balance sheet data, and outlooks for companies that are traded on the three
major stock exchanges.
- Stock Reports in
Lexis-Nexis Business.
(UST subscription
database)
Choose Company Financial Reports, then Stock
Reports. Includes reports from Nelson's, Vickers, and Zach's.
Research databases for company
news and in-depth journal articles
These
databases and more are available from the UST Libraries databases
and indexes page at the Minneapolis and St. Paul campus
libraries, computer labs, and from remote locations.
- Business
Source Premier.
Full-text articles and abstracts from management, marketing,
non-profit and business journals. 1984-present.
- Business
and Company Resource Center.
Full-text articles, profiles, investment reports on public
and some private companies. 1980-present.
- Factiva.
Company profiles, financials, and articles. Full-text access to hundreds of newspapers and journals in all topic
areas. Updates and coverage vary.
- Lexis-Nexis.
Detailed, full-text periodical articles; sources include the Star Tribune.
Updates and coverage vary.
- St. Paul Pioneer
Press Archives.
Searchable news library back to 1988. Does not
include current week's articles; those are available from
the St. Paul Pioneer
Press.)
Beta
- Factiva.
(UST
subscription database)
Company profiles, financials, and
articles. Choose
the "Companies/Markets" tab; look under "Reports"
for a "Financial Snapshot," which includes the
beta.
- Standard & Poor's Stock
Reports. (UST
subscription database)
Do a Publication Search on Stock
Reports. The beta is under Key Stock
Statistics on the first page.
- Value Line. (UST
subscription database)
Choose Lookup Company. The beta is in
the upper left-hand corner of the pdf report, and near the
top of the html version.
Company rankings
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Marianne Hageman / mdhageman@stthomas.edu
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