Company profiles in the library
Books in the Walsh Library to help explore ratios not covered in online databases and provide data on industries including non-public companies.
- Value Line Investment SurveyCall Number: REF HG4501 .V34ISBN: 00422401Updated weekly, this guide provides a one-page snapshot of leading publicly-traded companies and summaries of industry groups.
- Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
Call Number: REF HF5681 .R25 A4450 operating and financial factors are tracked in nearly 200 industries, with data available for companies in 13 groupings by size of their assets. - Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratio Benchmarks - Risk Management AssociationCall Number: REF HF5681 .B2 .R6Includes 19 widely-used ratios based on 244,000 statements broken down by size of company into low, median and upper quartiles
- Industry Norms and Key Business RatiosCall Number: REF HF5681 .R25 I5Based on one million financial statements, public and privately owned, in a brief, compact guide
- Business Ratios and Formulas - Steven Bragg
Call Number: HF5691 .B73 2007ISBN: 0470055170An ideal tool for measuring corporate performance, this guide lists 250 criteria with clear explanations - Hoover's Handbook of American BusinessCall Number: REF HG4057 .H66 2008ISBN: 10557202Profiles of 750 major U.S. companies
Databases
Use these databases to find financial and narrative information on your company.
- Mergent
The essential source for financial information and peer group analysis. Click the "HOW TO" tab on this page for a PowerPoint on using Mergent, or view videos below to help you navigate this site - EBSCO Business Source Complete
General business database with a special bonus: Company profiles! - Business & Company Resource Center This general business database comes with some great extras, including investment analyst reports, company histories, rankings, company profiles and industry overviews, all at the "Advanced" button on the home page of the database
- Lexis-Nexis Use this extensive worldwide database of news, business and legal information.
- IBIS World Detailed, comprehensive reports on over 700 United States industries – everything from Shoes Stores to Gold Ore Mining and all industries in between.
- FactivaBrowse today's major stories on "news pages," use the "search" function to find articles in thousands of sources, and obtain quotes and build charts on companies and industries using the "companies/markets" tab
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