Directories | Financial Information and Company Filings |
Analysis |
Historical Information | Article Databases | Additional Resources
Directories
American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
Unversity of Iowa access only
http://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://www.uniworldbp.com/search.php
—This directory of American firms, all of which do a substancial portion of their business in foreign nations, can
be searched by categories like country, keyword, and industry code.
Corporate Affiliations
Book: Reference, fHG 4057 .A326 2005
— Provides information on "who owns whom." Includes domestic companies with revenues in excess of $10 million, 300+ employees or substantial assets/net worth and non-U.S. companies with revenues in excess of $50 million. (several volumes)
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/dnb/mdd
— Information provided on over 1,600,000 of the leading U.S. and Canadian public and private companies. Entries
include company address and phone number, primary SIC and NAICS codes, number of employees, annual sales, types of
ownership, principal executives and links to company websites.
Hoover's Online
Free online resource
http://www.hoovers.com/free/
— Provides company and industry information including short company histories, basic financial information, key executives, top competitors, subsidiaries and affiliates, news and recent SEC filings. Covers over 12 million U.S. and international public and private companies. More detailed Hoover's reports are available through ABI/Inform Global (see article databases section below).
Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives
Book: Reference, fHG 4057 .A4 2006
— Includes profiles of over 75,000 corporations, the names and titles of 290,000 executives and 71,000 biographical sketches of top level managers. (2 volumes)
ThomasNet
Free online resource
http://www.thomasregister.com/
— Information provided on over 173,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers and 152,000 brand names. Entries include a basic company profile as well as links to company websites and product catalogs if available. Database is searchable by product or service, company name or brand name. Free registration is required.
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
Book: Reference fHG4057 .W28 49th 2006
— A guide to over 114,500 public and private U.S. companies in alphabetic, geographic, and industry arrangements. Includes rankings of companies by sales within SIC and NAICS codes, as well as by state. (several volumes + supplement). Also online, Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies is available through the Gale Directory Library.
Financial Information and Company Filings
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.
Mergent Online
University of Iowa access only
http://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://www.mergentonline.com/compsearch.asp
— Note: Mergent/Moodys replaces FISOnline. Mergent Online offers 15 years of data on U.S. public companies and includes company archives, equity and 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.
Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks
Book: Reference fHG 4905 .M88
— Provides basic financial and business information on more than 900 stocks that are included in the Russell 1000, S&P 500, S&P 400 and Mergent's Dividend Achievers. Includes price charts, statistics, and analysis. Published quarterly.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)
Pappajohn Business Building only; no wireless access
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/sandp/netadvant
— This site offers access to the S&P Stock Reports. These two-page reports are updated quarterly on over 4,600 companies. Reports include all NYSE and ASE issues, as well as over 1,600 NASDAQ issues. Data 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.
Yahoo!Finance
Free online resource
http://finance.yahoo.com/
— This site offers access to historical and current company and market information. Includes stock price quotes and charts, company and industry profiles, analysis, financial statments, corporate ownership information, financial news, and market summaries.
Analysis
Business Source Premier: Datamonitor
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebsco/bizpremier
— Business Source Premier offers access to Datamonitor (select "Company Profiles" link in the center section of the page). 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://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiowa_main?db=RBW
— 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.
Mergent Online
University of Iowa access only
http://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://www.mergentonline.com/compsearch.asp
— Note: Mergent/Moodys replaces FISOnline. Mergent Online offers 15 years of data on U.S. public companies; the service includes company archives, equity and 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.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)
Pappajohn Business Building only; no wireless access
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/sandp/netadvant
— This site offers access to the S&P Stock Reports. These two-page reports are updated quarterly on over 4,600 companies. Reports include all NYSE and ASE issues, as well as over 1,600 NASDAQ issues. Data 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 Survey
Book: Information Desk: HG 4501 .V26
— In-depth coverage of 1,700 companies grouped into ninety industries. Updated weekly. Back issues kept in paper and microfiche. See also Value Line Mutual Fund Survey for analysis of mutual funds.
Historical Information
Annual Reports & 10-K's
Filing Cabinets — Ask for assistance
— SEC File (Q-Data) microfiche set consists of annual reports, 10-K reports and proxy statements of publicly traded companies from 1978-1999. The Business Library also has a small collection of paper copies of annual reports for the Fortune 100 for the last three years.
International Directory of Company Histories
Book: Reference fHD 2721 .I57 1988
— Contains information on over 39,000 companies that have achieved a minimum of $50 million in annual sales and are leading influences in their industries or geographical locations. Includes public, private and non-profit entities. (many volumes)
Mergent Company Archives Manual
Book: Reference fHD 2746.55 .U5 M47 2001 & Supplements: fHD 2746.55 .U5 M472 2002--
— Contains the final statistical record of over 2,700 companies which have merged, were acquired, went bankrupt or otherwise disappeared as private companies from 1996 forward. There are also Supplements which contain information on additional companies that have disappeared since 2002.
Article Databases
ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest)
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. Corporate profile information from Hoover's is also available in this database.
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, accounting - including all issues of the Harvard Business Review. This database is on the list of EBSCOhost databases.
Factiva
Universtiy 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.
LexisNexis: 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 (EBSCOhost)
University of Iowa access only
http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/ebsco/bwh
— Coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis, and is a good source of information on small companies and local business news.
Additional Resources
Strategy Chart
http://www.business.uiuc.edu/broker/library/company.pdf
Researching Companies Online
http://www.learnwebskills.com/company/index.html
Searching for Company Information (New York Public Library)
http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/company/c2index.htm
Investment Guides (from IBM)
http://www.ibm.com/investor/tools/financials.phtml
Last update: November, 2006.
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