Company Research - Screenshots Page
On this page you will find screenshots of databases used for company research
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Checking a company's public status
1. Hoover's Example
After you do your initial company name search on the name wal-mart and
retrieve the basic profile. If a company is public it's stock exchange and
ticker symbol will be displayed. Those without a symbol and usually piv
Find SIC or NAICS codes
On the page as above in Hoover's keep scrolling down the page to the area
shown below.
You can see the numbers are clearly mored
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Hoover's Online
1. Competitive Landscape Report. To access the report, click
on "competitive Landscape" from the menu below that is found on many
pages in Hoovers (but you must first retrieve a company's record).
2. Here is what you will find in the Competitive Landscape
report:
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ValueLine Research Center
1. Go to "look up company" or "look up industry" to begin.
Find these on the main navigation menu on the left side of the screen.
2. Search the company:
3. Take note that there are PDF and HTML
versions of the report (look at both).
4.. Examine the Commentary sections of
the HTML report. (Note - only a small portion of the commentary is shown here)
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Business & Company Resource Center
1. Choose information by clicking on the tabs
at the top of the page.
ABI/Inform - Use the Advanced Search To Limit To A Specific Publication
The screenshot below
shows an
example of using the advanced search to find articles about planning or strategy
(note the use of the * to truncate these terms to pick up multiple variations,
such as plan, planning, planned) from the Wall Street Journal. The arrow
indicates where you change the search index to publication title in the dropbox.
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Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
1. Business News
In step two, drop the box and select your news source;
"business & finance" and "industry" are the two main choices. This will find
articles from mostly business publications.
2. Transcripts from News Programs
This is still from the "business" area of AU. All we've done
is change the category to News Transcripts and then selected "all transcripts"
as the source. Also notice that we changed the search index for Sears to
"headline". Without this change, the search retrieved more than 1,000 - which
doesn't work in AU.
3. Disclosure Report
When you click on "company financial" in the "search forms"
menu (on the left) you will get the template for Company Financial Reports. The
Disclosure Report is the default source. One note of caution is to change the
search time period from 6 months to 1 year. There is only one report for each
public company - there are no historical reports - but each report does contain
historic data.
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