U.S. Companies
Subject Guides: Business & Economics
Public Companies
Annual Reports/SEC Filings
Gateways to ARs/SEC Filings
Financial Snapshots
Investment Analysts' Reports
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COMPANY DIRECTORIES
D&B
Million Dollar Directory A
UT Libraries business database
Provides directory information for over 1,000,000 companies
with 20+ employees or over $1 million in sales. Includes address,
industry codes, approximate sales, corporate status, names
and brief biographies of top executives, and more.
Reference USA A UT Libraries database Search for information on 14 million U.S. businesses for business name and type, executive title, sales volume, employee size, year established, and more.
SuperPages.com
<http://www.bigyellow.com/>
A searchable index of 13 million U.S. businesses with address,
maps, and driving directions. Drawn from telephone book yellow pages.
ThomasNet <http://www.thomasnet.com/>
The online version of Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers,
a directory of products and their manufacturers.
Emphasis is on industrial products.
COMPANY BACKGROUND
Hoover's Online <http://www.hoovers.com>
Provides brief profiles of about 50,000 companies, plus links
to business headlines, SEC filings, company web pages, industry
overviews, and more. Basic profiles are free, in-depth available for a fee. UT Libraries users will find free Hoover's
Profiles, both basic and in-depth, included in the Business/Company Profiles
section of Lexis
Nexis Academic (a UT Libraries
business database) as one of the Source options. To locate the profiles, enter a company name or ticker, select Hoover's as the source, choose a date range and click Search.
International Directory of Company Histories A UT Libraries
business database
An encyclopedia covering the history and development of the
world's companies, leaders in their industry or geographical
location. Includes both
public and private U.S. and international corporations. Most
histories are 3-4 pages in length.
DETERMINING COMPANY STATUS
Corporate Affiliations.com A UT Libraries
business database
A guide to corporate links of major U.S. and international
corporations and their divisions, subsidiaries, and affiliates.
Includes both public and private firms, and internationally
owned companies. Also lists brands, competitors, and service firms.
PUBLIC COMPANIES: ANNUAL REPORTS & SEC FILINGS
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information <http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml>
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's collection of
corporate financial statements as filed by U.S. public corporations
beginning in 1994/96, are found here. Includes a full-text
searchable index. No annual shareholder reports,
but 10K, 10Q, and many other financial disclosure documents
are included.
Historical Collection of Annual Reports and SEC 10K Reports
An historical collection of annual reports, 10K reports, and
proxy statements is available on microfiche in the Hodges
Library Documents/Microforms area. Annual reports
begin in 1966, 10K's in 1974 and proxies in 1978. The collection
ends in 1997.
PUBLIC COMPANIES: GATEWAYS to ANNUAL REPORTS & SEC FILINGS
Lexis-Nexis
Academic A UT Libraries
business database
Search the Business/Company Profiles section of this database for partial annual reports of U.S. corporations dating from 1972-1995 and SEC
filings beginning in 1993.
Mergent
Online A UT Libraries business database
This database contains annual corporate shareholder
reports for approximately 10,000 U.S. public companies and many international corporations. Annual
reports are image-based and available for the past 10 years; SEC filings are available for only the last 90
days.
Thomson
Research A UT Libraries
business database
Provides full text of annual reports for U.S. public corporations,
all SEC filings, proxy statements, and registrations. Some reports for international firms are also available. Annual
reports are in image-based format. Also includes
a complete corporate filings history for all firms beginning with 1994/96.
PUBLIC COMPANIES: FINANCIAL SNAPSHOTS
Factiva
A UT Libraries business database
Select the "Company/Markets" option from the top green menu bar to search by
company name or ticker symbol for summary financial information
about U.S. corporations.
Mergent
Online A UT Libraries business database
This
database provides summary quarterly and annual financial data
for up to 15 years; income statement, balance sheet and ratio
analysis for over 10,000 U.S. and international corporations. Data can be downloaded to Excel for further calculations.
Standard
& Poor's Net Advantage, a
UT Libraries business database
Provides data on corporate earnings, stocks and bonds issued,
and other financial facts for over 11,000 U. S. corporations. Search by ticker or company name.
Thomson
Research A UT Libraries
business database
Contains brief financial factsheets plus lengthy summary reports of annual
and quarterly financial data extracted from annual reports and SEC filings
for over 16,000 U.S. corporations as well as many international firms. Financial data for the past 10 years is available for download.
Value Line Investment Survey A UT Libraries business database
Data provided for each of approximately 2000 companies is
a one page summary including investment commentary, a history
of key investment factors, and future performance estimates
for the stock.
PUBLIC COMPANIES: STOCK PRICES
Big Charts <http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical>
Has historical daily stock prices--high, low, opening, and
closing--from January 1970 to date, plus price charts for
currently listed corporations. Search by ticker symbol only.
Other current stock price data and charts also found here.
Daily Stock Price Record Ref. HG4915.S664(NYSE), Ref. HG4915.S66(Amex),
Ref. HG4915. S665(NASDAQ)
Contains daily volume and high, low, and closing price from
1990 to date for stocks listed on the New York, American and
OTC/NASDAQ exchanges.
Security Owner's Stock Guide HG4537.S8
Monthly pocket guide presenting concise statistical information
on common and preferred stocks. Current year in Reference, older issues in stacks.
PUBLIC COMPANIES: INVESTMENT ANALYSTS' REPORTS
Morningstar.com a UT Libraries business database
In addition to mutual funds, analyzes and reports on 2000
stocks. Information includes charts, key ratios and financial
data for the past 10 years, insider transactions, analyst
research, and more.
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage, a
UT Libraries business database
Search here for brief financial reports analyzing current performance and
outlining future prospects for about 4000 firms traded on the
New York, American, regional, or NASDAQ markets.
Value Line Investment Survey a UT Libraries business database
Analyzes and reports on the market status of approximately
2000 companies on a rotating quarterly basis. Data provided
for each company includes investment commentary, key investment
factors,and future performance estimates.
The Wall Street Transcript Ref. HG1 .W28
This weekly commentary on the market contains interviews with
investment managers and analysts and recommendations on both
company and industry outlook.
PRIVATE COMPANIES
Privately held companies do not sell shares of stock to the public and are not listed on stock exchanges. As a result they are not required to file financial disclosure reports with the SEC nor do they publish annual stockholder reports. As a result, far less information is likely to be available about a privately held company.
You should, however, use the sources suggested in this guide to check the company's listing in business directories, read any background information available, look for a company webpage (if available), and search thoroughly for periodical and newspaper articles about the company. If information about the company is limited, supplement it with information about its industry (see the Industries guide for suggestions.)
RANKINGS and MARKET SHARE
Business Rankings Annual Ref. HG4050.B88
"Top Ten" business rankings drawn from periodicals,
newspapers, and other business sources. Arranged by subject
with indexes by company, industry, and product.
Fortune 500 <http://www.fortune.com>
Fortune magazine's annual 500 list and the Global 500
list are available plus several other Fortune lists
that rank or compare corporations.
Market
Share Reporter Ref. HF5410.M35
Collection of market share data from a variety of periodicals
for brands, products, and companies. Arranged by industry
categories with a subject index.
RDS
Business and Industry A UT Libraries business
database
Search this index of trade and industry journals for articles
including market share and ranking information for both companies
and products. Most articles include full text.
Tablebase
A UT Libraries business database
An index to tabular data drawn from more than 1000 trade journals
and other reports. Covers information such as market size,
production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings,
forecasts, and demographics. Full text is available for most
articles.
LOCATING ARTICLES in NEWSPAPERS, RESEARCH and TRADE JOURNALS
Business
Source Premier A UT Libraries business
database
Search by company name, product, or subject in this index
of 3000 popular, trade, and scholarly business journals. Full
text is available for most of the titles included;coverage
begins in the 1960s.
Factiva
A UT Libraries business database
Search the full text of over 8,000 newspapers, periodicals,
wire services, media transcripts, or web sites for articles
about companies, products, and subjects.
General
BusinessFile ASAP A UT Libraries business
database
Indexes business magazines and newspapers, trade journals,
and brokerage reports and can be searched for company names,
products, and subjects. Some full text articles included.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic A UT Libraries business database
Search both the News and the Business sections of this database
for the full text of articles from a variety of sources
about U.S. corporations.
RDS
Business and Industry A UT Libraries business
database
This index of trade and industry journals is a primary source
of corporate, industry and product information. Full
text available for most articles.
LOCATING BOOKS
Use the UT Libraries catalog to find call numbers and locations for books about U.S. companies.
Created and maintained by Karmen Crowther, Business LibrarianLast revision: 8/1/08