Director of the Liaison Program
Research & Engagement
Where to research companies
- Mergent online This link opens in a new windowOffers coverage of 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings. Provides access to the following: U.S. company annual reports, full-text, color; international company annual reports; company financial information, in many cases going back up to fifteen years; industry reports; equity reports; information on company executives, and more. Resource offers the ability to download financial data into a spreadsheet and to create company comparison reports.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowProvides access to resources for researching news, business, industry, and legal topics. Default search is for news, but you may choose to search news, legal cases, law reviews, company information, or a publication by clicking the named button. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10- K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Narrow search by several options including subject, timeline, and source among others. Option to use "Get a Doc Assistance" to walk thorugh searching for legal cases or legislation.
- PrivCo : private company financial data authority This link opens in a new window
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Provides information on many well known privately-held companies. Information includes balance sheet and income statement figures, company overview, competitors, and funding activity when available. Searchable by company name, industry, location and annual revenue. M & A activity is also covered.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text business journals and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business, marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more. May be searched individually or in combination with other EBSCO databases. EBSCOhost.
Tutorial on company research
If you want to know more about the nature researching a company, use the sections of this tutorial on how companies are structured and where the best resources for finding information about companies, their histories, their financial info, etc.
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