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Subject Guide for Company Information
Answering some of the following questions early in the research process
will help to focus your search and ensure that adequate information is available
for your company.
- Is your company public or private?
- What is your company's ticker symbol if they are publicly traded?
- Are they a subsidiary, division or a branch of another company?
- What is your company's SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) or NAICS
(North American Industrial Classification System) code?
If you begin your search in one of the following directories you will generally
be able to obtain answers to the above questions fairly quickly.
Company Directories
Corporate Affiliations -
HG4057 .A217 (Current edition on
Table 5B for US and 8A for international in Reference) Presents brief
profiles of both public and private companies with connections shown for subsidiaries
and divisions. It also has a nice brand name index if you are unsure who owns
a specific brand.
D&B million dollar directory : America's leading public &
private companies - HC102 .D8 (Current edition on Table
5B in Reference) Lists the major U.S. companies with a net worth
of over $500,000.
D&B principal international businesses -
HF54.U5 P74
(Current edition on Table 8A in Reference)
Hoover's Company Reports - (Available through Article Databases) -
Hoover's Company Reports delivers descriptive information about a company including location, summary financials, top competitors,
top officers, and much more for over 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Public and Private Companies
- HG4057 .W37 (Current edition on Table 5B in Reference)
This directory provides over 150,000 U.S. entries, both public and private,
covering items such as ticker symbol, stock exchange, CEO's name, number
of employees, revenue, etc. In addition to the volumes containing basic directory
information, rankings by SIC code or geographic location are also provided.
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Company Histories
International Directory of Company Histories -
HD2721 .D36 (Table 5B in Reference) - Comprising over 50 volumes,
this collection provides a short 3-4 page summary of U.S. and international
companies. Ensure that you begin with the most recent volume since the index
is cumulative. Look for an entry with the volume number followed by a bold
range of pages (i.e. 23 123-126) to ensure the entry actually
focuses on your company rather than simply mentioning them.
Notable Corporate Chronologies
HG4009 .N68 1995 (Table 5B in Reference) - This two volume set lists important
events in a company's history.
The library's catalog can also be searched to locate chapters or books that
may have been written on your company. Try searching first using the SUBJECT
option and the company name to locate books about your company. Next,
try searching using the KEYWORD option to see if there are additional
books within which your company is featured in a chapter.
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Public Company Financial & Stock Information
Edgar
Company Search -
Allows users to browse company's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mergent
Online - (Available through Article Databases)
Formerly Moody's this on-line service provides up to 15 years/quarters of
detailed current and historical financial data for over 10,000 U.S. public
companies and more than 17,000 non-U.S. public companies.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage - (Available through Article Databases) -
Contains many of the S&P print publications. For historical information, please refer to the print version below.
Standard & Poor's
Stock Reports - HG4905 .S445
(Current edition on Table 6B in Reference) - Quarterly reports
on stock performance for publicly traded companies.
Value Line
Investment Survey - HG4501 .V26
(Reserve Book Room) - One-page snapshot of stock performance for individual
companies as well as a brief industry overview at the beginning of each section.
Yahoo Finance -
An excellent collection of resources on publicly
traded companies, including financial and general company information.
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Company News
Most of the on-line business databases available via the Infodome site can
be searched by Company Name either using a pull-down field or a special search
field.
ABI/INFORM - (Available through Article Databases)
Provides access to articles in business research journals and important industry
trade publications. Includes the full-text of most articles and summaries
for all the rest. 1970 to the present. Review the Subject Codes and Classification
Codes to be able to fine tune your searching.
Business
& Industry Database - (Available through Article Databases)
Index to over 900 trade and business publications from more than 190 countries.
Emphasis is on facts, figures, and key events related to companies, industries,
markets, and products.
Business Source Premier - (Available through Article Databases)
This database provides full text access to nearly 8,200 business magazines, newspapers, academic journals, news wires,
trade journals, and industry reports with coverage back to 1965. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related
to business.
Factiva
- (Available through Article Databases) A joint venture between Dow
Jones and Reuters News Service, this Web-based service provides powerful tools
for researching and monitoring news and business information from a unique
collection of world-class content.
LexisNexis - (Available through Article Databases)
Access to the full-text of national and international news articles, and to
company, legal and reference information. News coverage is generally from
the late 1980's onward.
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TIP: On-line databases can be used for searching
on these topics, for example: within ABI/Inform enter the Subject Heading
Market Shares or Ratings & rankings and in the
Business & Industry Database select the Concept Code for
Market Share. In full-text databases that allow proximity
searching using operators such as NEAR or WITHIN, put them to work finding
phrases such as "33% share of the european automotive
market". Simply using the phrase Market Share would
miss such occurrences. Try "market near5 share" in Factiva or "market
w/5 share" in LexisNexis
Business Rankings Annual - HG4050
.B88 (Current edition on Table 6A in Reference)
Provides rankings on a broad range of subjects and industries worldwide.
It is arranged by Subject Heading-Country (i.e. Advertisers-Spain).
Includes citation to the original source from which the rankings were taken.
Market Share Reporter - HF5410 .M37
(Current edition on
Table 6A in Reference)
Arranged by SIC codes, this work provides market share information
with occasional charts/tables. It also contains indexes by source, product/service
name, company, brand name and SIC code.
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Public
and Private Companies
- HG4057 .W37 (Current edition on Table 5B in Reference)
Review the volumes that rank companies by revenue within the various SIC codes
and by SIC/Geography..
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Guides and Tutorials
Researching
Companies Online -
An excellent tutorial that will take the user through all the various facets
of locating company information online.
Rutger's
Company Research -
An in-depth listing of resources most commonly used in researching companies,
utilizing many on-line Internet resources.
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