LibGuides: Company Research Guide: Financial Information

Public Companies: Annual Reports, SEC Filings, and Financials

Public Companies: 10-K Annual Filing

You can you usually locate a public company's 10-K and other SEC Filings on the "Investor" section of the company's web site. The following library databases also contain 10-Ks, SEC filings, and other financial information.

S&P Capital IQ NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage provides access to S&P's Company and Industry Surveys, Stock Guides, Dividend Records, Mutual Fund Ratings, Corporation Records and much more. Industry surveys are updated twice yearly and provide key data on more than 50 industries from Health Care to Telecommunications.
D&B Hoovers - 50 user limit
D&B Hoovers enables users to make custom lists and reports for US and international company research, sales prospecting, and more. Find personal contact information, news, wirefeeds, and company and industry information such as SEC filings, market research reports, analyst reports, and SWOT analyses.
Mergent Archives
Mergent Archives provides access to Mergent's Historical Annual Reports collection, which offers over 700,000 documents available in .PDF format for the United States, Canada and Europe dating back to the early 1900s, and the full collection of digitized Moody's Corporate and Municipal Manuals published since 1909.

Industrial Manual since 1920
OTC Unlisted Manual since 1986
Public Utility Manual since 1981
International Manual since 1970
OTC Industrial Manual since 1970
Bank & Finance Manual since 1928
Transportation Manual since 1909
Municipal Manuals since 1918

Nexis Uni

Search Tip: On the landing page, click on the [Find a Company] tile (underneath the search box). Search using the company's name or ticker symbol. Them on the left side of the page, click on [SEC Filings].

Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect offers comprehensive data on companies, industries, demographics, consumer lifestyles, people, and jobs. Among its specialized offerings are: information on over 245 million domestic and international public and private companies; First Research industry profiles; PRIZM demographic and consumer reports; North American census data, searchable by geographic area; residential contact and lifestyle data for U.S. residents; and job listings for companies in the U.S. and Canada. Users may also access D&B Key Business Ratios from this database.

Private Companies: Financials

Top pick for small private companies:

PrivCo
PrivCo provides private company financial data including M&A activity, investor information, private equity and venture capital data. It covers over 225,000 private companies, 11,000 investors, and over 80,000 private market M&A deals and funding rounds. Database strengths include the ability to search by niche industry for private companies, and to find specific investors for targeted industries.

Additional resources that may provide financial information for some private companies:

D&B Hoovers - 50 user limit
D&B Hoovers enables users to make custom lists and reports for US and international company research, sales prospecting, and more. Find personal contact information, news, wirefeeds, and company and industry information such as SEC filings, market research reports, analyst reports, and SWOT analyses.
Nexis Uni
Search Tip: On the landing page, click on the [Find a Company] tile (underneath the search box). Search using the company's name or ticker symbol.
Data Axle
Data Axle (formerly ReferenceUSA) contains detailed company descriptions, corporate family trees, management directories, and competitor information for more than 20 million U.S. businesses. Users may build custom searches to help identify and compare companies. Custom search options include business type, geography, business size and ownership type.

Trading Room Resources

Visit the Trading Room for access to other information resources such as Morningstar, Bloomberg, Capital IQ, FactSet, and Datastream.

Bentley Trading Room