Guides: FIN 4285: Small Cap Investing I; FIN4381/5381: Practicum in Portfolio Management: Library resources for industry information

Industries

BizMiner
Offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for business and industry market trends.
eStatement Studies (RMA)
Contains composite financial data from anonymous financial statements of manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, service, and contracting businesses operating in industries. Designed to be particularly useful to lending and credit risk professionals who want to compare one company's performance relative to other companies in the same line of business.
IBISWorld
IBISWorld provides access to industry research reports, international industry reports, industry risk ratings, industry reports for China and business environment reports.

Key business ratios This link opens in a new window
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 into a spreadsheet for further analysis. Includes latest three years of data that is available. Dun & Bradstreet.

Mergent Online
Access Mergent's industry reports now through libraries' Mergent Online subscription. Click on "Report Search" tab at top of the page, then click on "Industry Reports" link at the top of the next page. Reports can be searched by company name or from preset menu.

Standard & Poor's netadvantage This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the S&P Industry Surveys (U.S.), reports (stock & bond), directories (corporations, Security Dealers of North America), registers (public companies, private companies, executives), Compustat Excel Analytics, Mutual Fund Screener, investment advisory services (The Outlook), Stovall Sector Watch, Credit Week Focus, and more publications from Standard and Poor's. Financial Education section provides sound information on becoming financially fit.

If you are not a business major, industry codes can be kind of confusing -- what are they and what are they used for? Here is what you need to know:

Industry codes are used to classify like businesses together. This is helpful so that businesses that grow oranges can be compared to other businesses that also grow oranges and coffee shops can be compared to other coffee shops. They also help us gather some really helpful industry numbers such as industry revenue.
Businesses in the United States have used two (2) industry codes.
- SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code was developed in the 1930's
- NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code was developed in the late 1990's

Here is what the system of industry codes looks like:

The following shows the arrangement of the SIC code:

Major Group	48	Communications
Industry Group Number	483	Radio & Television Broadcasting Stations
Industry Number	4832	Radio Broadcasting Stations

The following shows the arrangement of the NAICS code:

Sector	51	Information
Subsector	515	Broadcasting (except Internet)
Industry Group	5151	Radio Broadcasting Broadcasting
NAICS Industry	51511	Radio Broadcasting
Individual U.S. Industries	51512	Radio Stations

Industry codes can be used to research industries, Several of the databases listed on this page use industry codes as means of organizing or searching for information.
You can search for an industry code by going to the U.S. Census page and using the NAICS Lookup option (https://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/).
Logistics World

Look at the top of the page for the "Tools" link. This will take users to the Reference Library page. Once on this page, select NAICS and SIC codes. Here you can browse by category, search by code or keyword or use the conversion tool to move between NAICS and SIC codes.