Business Research Guide

Mergent offers corporate profiles, SEC financial statements, and business ratios for 10,500 public U.S. companies and 20,000 non-U.S. companies. It also has industry reports from 3 continents. Download financial data and create customized reports.

This large backfile of company histories, subsidiaries, revenues, and shareholder information replicates annual Moody’s Manuals for Industrial companies (1920- ), Transportation (1909- ), Public Utilities (1914- ), Bank & Finance (1928- ), International companies (1981- ) and OTC Industrials (1970- ).

Morningstar is a leading authority in company stock research, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and global market indexes. Access is limited to 2 concurrent users.

Provides coverage of public and private companies, now expanded to over 100,000 companies. Financial information on public companies includes 3 years of financial data; ratings of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds; industry analysis; and a stock newsletter. The new interface provides new data sets though still maintains content from the previous platform (i.e. Industry Surveys).

Value Line evaluates the investment prospects of 1,700 large, mid, and small-capitalization stocks traded on the U.S. exchanges. Graphs and tables illustrate their long term returns, ratios, earnings, and debt. Narrative analysis discusses company prospects. Stocks are ranked for timeliness, safety, and technical factors. Value Line also contains 1-page analyses of 100 industries.