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Company & Industry Research: Company Research
Company Financials
- ABI/Inform CollectionArticles in business, finance, management, accounting, advertising, banking, insurance, marketing, public administration, real estate, and telecommunications. 1971-current.
See especially Hoover's Company Records for private companies.
- Business Source PremierIndustry reports, company profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses and more. Articles about thousands of companies.
- OrbisOver 35 million public and private companies worldwide. Each company includes financial data, merger and stock data. Links to news about company and industry, including section on negative news.
Permits searching by subsidiary (i.e., Disney --> ESPN).
Search for Chapel Hill, select University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to log in. - OsirisCompany data for publicly-traded companies, including ownership, subsidiaries, earnings estimates and stock data. Click on Financial data on the left to see: ratios, cash flow, and "spreadsheet format" to download to Excel
. - Value Line Research CenterGreat financial data, including historical and projected prices, key financials, and a short quarterly analyst opinion. Updated monthly.
Business News
- U.S. NewsstreamNational and international newspapers, wires and some TV / radio transcripts.
Includes: the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Guardian (U.K.). - International NewsstreamWorld news and other articles from newspapers, broadcast, wire feeds, trade journals, and more.
Includes The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, and The Daily Telegraph.
- Nexis UniArticles from over 900 English language newspapers and law reviews. Formerly known as LexisNexis.
- FactivaU.S. newspapers include the Wall Street Journal and other business titles.
Tech Note Go to Search / Search Builder to start searching. More help from: Factiva User Guide from ProQuest (pdf)
Tip See this Search
What Does It Mean?
A Dictionary of Finance and BankingEasy-to-understand definitions of terms used in finance, investing, markets, banking, and more. c2018.
From Oxford University Press.
Free Business Websites
- Big ChartsMake stock charts for thousands of public companies.
Data elements include stock quotes, earnings, dividends, ratios, dividends. Show current and historic data. Great visuals. - Google FinanceSearch by company name or ticker symbol. Retrieve news, charts, related companies, officers, and more. Links to information on that company via "external links."
SEC Filings
- EDGAR Company FilingsSearch for company information. Company filings are available starting in 1994.