U.S Company Information | Industry Information | News and Articles
U.S. Company Information
Basic Facts and Financial Information
Factiva
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/factiva
— Try Factiva for business news from nearly 8,000 sources from 118 countries in 22 languages. Same-day, full-text articles and indexing of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and local newspapers from around the globe. Includes newswires from more than 120 industry, press-release, and local newswires. Also contains profiles along with financial statements for U.S. companies.
Mergent Online
University of Iowa access only
http://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://www.mergentonline.com/compsearch.asp
— Mergent Online offers 15 years of data on U.S. public companies and includes company archives, equity & corporate bond portraits and more. This service corresponds to a print source, the Mergent/Moody's Manuals — older copies of which may be found in Reference.
SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR)
Free online resource
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
— Electronic versions of forms filed by foreign and domestic corporations with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 1996 through the present.
Analysis
Datamonitor
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebsco/bizpremier
— Accessible via EBSCOhost's Business Source Premier (select "Company Profiles" button). Contains profiles and analysis on global companies. Provides key facts, history, products/services, competitors, and location of subsidiaries.
Investext Plus 
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/investext
— Investment, company, and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full-page .pdf format.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)
Pappajohn Business Building access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/sandp/netadvant
— Under Select Publication, choose the Stock Reports to access analysts' evaluations and recommendations on over 6,000 publicly-held, U.S. listed corporations. Reports include all NYSE and ASE issues, as well as many NASDAQ issues. Information available encompasses ten years of per-share data on earnings, cash flow, tangible book value, dividends, payout rates, high and low prices, and P/E ratios.
Value Line Investment Surveys
Book: Information Desk, HG 4501 .V26
— In-depth coverage of 1,700 companies grouped into 90 industries. Updated weekly. Back issues kept in paper and microfiche. See also Value Line Mutual Fund Survey for analysis of mutual funds.
Industry Information
Economic Census
Free online resource
http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/
— The Economic Census provides a detailed portrait of the nation's economy once every five years, from the national to the local level. Includes key industrial statistics, such as the number of establishments, number of employees, payroll, and measure of output.
Industry Studies
Book: Reference, HC 106.8 .I53 2002
— Contains detailed studies by leading scholars on the following 14 industries: automobiles, beer, broilers, pharmaceuticals, steel, airline service, retail commercial banking, casino gambling, electric power, health insurance, motion pictures, nursing homes, microcomputer platforms, and telecommunications.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)
Pappajohn Business Building access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/sandp/netadvant
— Each survey includes a discussion of the current environment, an overall profile of the industry, as well as a glossary of terms and a list of references to additional resources. Many charts and tables are included.
Value Line Investment Survey
Book: Information Desk, HG 4501 .V26
— In-depth coverage of 1,700 companies grouped into 90 industries. Updated weekly. Back issues kept in paper and microfiche.
News and Articles
ABI/INFORM Global
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/proquest/abi
— Search 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information is available on 60,000+ companies.
Business Source Premier
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebsco/bizpremier
— Includes full-text articles from over 3,000 journals in the fields of business, management, economics, finance, banking, and accounting — including all issues of the Harvard Business Review. This database is on the list of EBSCOhost databases.
Factiva
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/factiva
— Try Factiva for business news from nearly 8,000 sources from 118 countries in 22 languages. Same-day, full-text articles and indexing of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, South China Morning Post, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Straits Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, and local newspapers from around the globe. Newswires include Dow Jones, Reuters, The Associated Press, Asia Pulse, and more than 120 other industry, press-release, and local newswires. More than 800 sources are available on or before the date of publication.
Lexis Nexis: Academic Search
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/lexis/universe
— A full-text database covering over 5,000 publications.
Regional Business News
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebsco/bwh
— This EBSCOhost database provides comprehensive, full-text coverage of business journals, newspapers, and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Note — Other magazines/journals have special issues devoted to industry coverage. See Directory of Business Periodical Special Issues (Book: Reference, Z7164 .C81D56 1995) or Guide to Special Issues and Indexes of Periodicals (Book: Reference, Z6951 .S755 1994).
Last update: September, 2006.
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