Empirical Research Tutorial
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
The following Web sites provide company financial information as well as business reports, company descriptions, product details, ratios and statistics, investment research, and other useful information.
Business Insights
Business Insights provides information to leading companies worldwide and focuses on the following industries and areas of interest: consumer goods, energy, financial services, health care, technology, telecoms, eCommerce, human resources.
DATABASE - Electronic Resources page (Available at Downtown Campus, Main Campus, Rice Campus and by remote access)
Business & Company Resource Center (Gale)
The Resource Center features detailed company profiles (including parent/sibling relationships), industry rankings, investment reports, industry statistics, and financial ratios. Search by company name or ticker symbol, industry, or keyword. The Resource Center also covers private and international companies.
DATABASE - Electronic Resources page (Available by remote access and on the Downtown Campus)
DailyStocks.com
DailyStocks is
a free financial research portal that links to other investment sites
for all the information about a stock that can be found on the Web,
such as historical financial data like three-year returns and
earnings-per-share growth as well as current data like market share
and annual revenue.
PROMT (Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology)
PROMT provides summaries and full text from business and trade journals as well as industry newsletters on company products and technologies. Includes the F&S Index.
DATABASE - Electronic Resources page (Available at Downtown Campus, Main Campus, Rice Campus and by remote access)
Securities
and Exchange Commission EDGAR Database
All publicly traded
companies, domestic and foreign, are required by the SEC to electronically
file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms through
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval), the official
database for filing. Access to the EDGAR database is free.
Also: LEXIS - News & Business > Company & Financial > Financial Filings > US Financial Filings > EDGAR Databases
WESTLAW - Westnews (News & Business Databases) database (EDGAR)
Yahoo! Finance provides company profiles on over 9,000 public companies, including officer, employee, and other contact information; sector and industry classifications; business and earnings announcement summaries; financial statistics and ratios; stock quotes; news from a wide variety of sources; investment research; mutual fund profiles; and other resources.
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