Finance

COMPANY PROFILES

• Business Source Ultimate
  Use for MarketLine report (SWOT analyses), company profiles, newspaper articles and trade publications, academic journal articles
• Mergent Online—also covers international firms
  Financial data (company and executive), equity analysis, competitors, news, report builder
• Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage – Company profiles includes stock and industry analysis
• ValueLine (one specific computer in library, ask at the reference desk)
• Hoover’s Handbooks (print only):  in reference collection

ANNUAL REPORTS

• Mergent
  Company’s website—hint: look for a “corporate” or “investors” section
• SEC.gov (EDGAR filings—10-K or 10-K/A annual report and Def 14A for executive compensation)

SWOT ANALYSIS

• Business Source Ultimate – included in MarketLine report
• SEC.gov (EDGAR filings—10-K or 10-K/A annual report; look at the first few pages of the filings)

INDUSTRY INFORMATION

Industry Profiles

• Business Source Ultimate
• Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage

Financial information on competitors – Mergent

Find financial ratios for your industry (on permanent reserve behind the Access Services desk)

• Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios —(in-library use only), request at circulation desk; HF5681 .R25 A45
• RMA (annual statements analysis): HF5681.B2 R6

Look up your industry code - http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/

Find statistics for your industry - http://www.census.gov/econ/isp/index.php

ECONOMIC STATISTICS

• Bureau of Economic Analysis - bea.gov
• Bureau of Labor Statistics - bls.gov
• *Fred (through the Fed of St Louis) - http://www.research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/