Researching a Company

• U.S. Company Data
• U.S. Company Archives Data
• International Company Data
• International Company Archives Data

To locate articles about specific companies, search the following databases:

ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest) ProQuest Newspapers (includes Wall Street Journal) Wall Street Journal (1984 to current) WallStreet Journal Tutorial New York Times - Historical Edition ( Coverage from 1850's to 1980's) ProQuest - search all ProQuest Collections Business Source Premier from EBSCOhost LexisNexis Academic select: Business Business LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. This database includes The New York Times from June 1, 1980 through current.

Value Line Research Center
The Value Line Research Center includes online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options, and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.

Value Line tutorial (user name and password not required)

Datamonitor Company Profiles from EBSCOhost: Business Source Premier
Once connected to Business Source Premier, click on the "Company Profiles" button in the toolbar.

Regional Business News from EBSCOhost.

Information on the World Wide Web:

Annual Report Gallery This site links to home pages and annual reports of more than 2,200 companies traded on the U.S. stock exchanges.

Edgar Database of Corporate Information EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency.

Fortune 500 This Fortune Magazine site has many fine features, including company capsules, links to corporate web pages, and industry comparison spreadsheets. One problem that you may encounter is that some of the spreadsheets are too wide to print, even in landscape. Downloading the database is possible, but requires a personal credit card and a large expenditure.

WEB100 "The Web100 tracks the largest American and international on the Web (ranked by revenue), listing these corporate giants along with their Fortune® 500 and Global 500 rankings. As the most-comprehensive index to the Web sites of only the world's largest businesses, the Web100 is a valuable resource for business analysts, investors, and anybody else interested in Big Business on the Web."

BigCharts "Our BigCharts sites are the world's most comprehensive and easy-to-use online charting and investment research Web sites providing access to interactive charts, quotes, reports, and indicators on over 50,000 stocks, mutual funds and market indexes."