Use the resources below to find information on a company's history, financials, reports, and more.
Mergent Online: Mergent Online offers company financials, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries officers, and directors. Click here to watch a video on how to search for company information in Mergent Online.
Content: Database for company and industry research containing detailed information about many publicly traded companies, including inactive companies.
Purpose: This is a key database for business, accounting, and economics students.
Special Features: Economic and industry reports, as well as company filings, financials, a report builder, and much more.
Data Axle: Database of 24 million businesses with company information, executive titles, sales volume, industry code, and number of employees. Click here for help using Data Axle.
Statista: Statista produces company reports that include financials, employees, competitive landscape, market valuation, and contact details. Once in Statista, click on Company DB (at the top of the homepage), and then search for the company that interests you.
ABI/INFORM: Find company history, corporate strategy, performance and financial performance, SWOT analyses, and other analyses. Click here for a tutorial on finding company information using ABI/INFORM.
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Content: Database supporting business and legal research.
Purpose: News, journals, and company profiles and directories for both public and private companies.
Special Features: U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to the 1790s, New York Times articles, Cases, Law Reviews, Company & Country Information, and much more.
What is a SWOT Analysis?
A SWOT analysis (Strength + Weaknesses + Opportunities + Threats) is an analysis of a company used to create strategic business plans. External environmental factors are typically considered to be Opportunities or Threats. Internal factors are generally classified as Strengths or Weaknesses.
Where can I find SWOT Analyses?
Use the following databases below to find company SWOT Analyses.
What is an Annual Report?
Annual Report - A yearly record of a public corporation’s financial condition that must be distributed to shareholders under securities and exchange commission regulations. Included in the report is a description of the company’s operations as well as its balance sheet and income statement.
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What is a 10-K Report?
10-K - Annual report required by the Securities and Exchange Commission of every issuer of a registered security, every exchange-listed company, and any company with 500 or more shareholders or $1 million or more in gross assets. The form provides for disclosure of total sales, revenue, and pretax operating income, as well as sales by separate classes of products for each of a company’s separate lines of business for each of the past five years. A source and application of funds statement presented on a comparative basis for the last two fiscal years is also required. Form 10-K becomes public information when filed with the SEC.
Source: Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms
Where can I find a 10-K Report?
To search for a 10-K report in Nexis Uni, select "company info" in the Guided Search box. Enter a company name, and select "SEC Filings" under And Show Me, then hit search
On the results page, enter "10-k" in the Search Within Results box. Click on the document title to view the 10-K report.
Use the resources below to find information on a non-profit company.
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