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Industry reports and ratios

BCC Research This link opens in a new window
Provides market research reports and forecasts in 25 distinct verticals and provides more information through partnerships with other market research providers.

BizMiner
Offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for business and industry market trends.

eStatement studies This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the online version of the Annual Statement Studies produced by the Risk Management Association (RMA).

IBISWorld
Reports in the areas of Industry Market Research, Global Industry Research, industry risk ratings, Business Environment and China Industry Reports.
Key business ratios
Provides selected industry ratios in three major areas: solvency, efficiency, and profitability. Users can search by various means, including SIC code, line of business, asset range, and year. Data can be exported to a spreadsheet for further analysis.

ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Provides business information from scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
By searching for an entity as a company, various reports can be accessed. Once the initial search has been done, by using the "Source Type" option located on the left-hand side, search resuts can be limited to SWOT.

Mergent online
On the company profile page, click on the "competitors" tab to access the competitors list. This list contains company names, financial information, links to competitors' information page and competitor news items.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to resources for researching news, business, industry, and legal topics.

PrivCo
Database of financial data on major privately-held companies. Includes private financials and revenues; private M&A deals and deal multiples, private firm valuations, VC funding, private equity deal history; and private and family ownership data.

Reference Solutions This link opens in a new window
Select the "U.S. Businesses" database to get started. On the quick search page, you can search by company name, executive name, city and state. By clicking on the "custom search" tab located at the top of the search box, you can select criteria such as business type, geography or business size to search by. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. In addition to address and phone number, each entry includes officer names and titles, corporate affiliation, business type and size of yellow page advertising. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.
Standard & Poor's netadvantage This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to major publications and company information from Standard and Poor's.

Texas Industry
The Texas Industry Profile site provides industry-based information and regional analysis tools to assist local economic development professionals to better understand and clearly describe the Texas regional industry structure and workforce dynamics.
BizStats