The number of companies and the depth of the information provided varies in each of these sources. For companies outside of the U.S. use Mergent, Business Source Complete and LexisNexis Academic. If the company is very small and/or private, it may be covered in the PrivCo database.
Provides information on 50000+ companies, 215 countries, 2000+ industries, live news feeds, 500 new comment and news articles per week, details of 3,000+ financial deals per month. MarketLine offers a comprehensive and unique collection of information in a variety of user-friendly formats, including interactive reports and databases. Compiled by their global research team, these products are ideal for helping you build a thorough understanding of markets, whether you’re researching for qualifications, jobs or business.
Subjects include:
Industry profiles offering standardized market data (including size & segmentation) and competitive analysis
Company profiles for 50,000 public and private companies giving detailed insight into how companies are organized and function
Country profiles presenting easy-to-digest summaries and standardized data
Base Drivers Database featuring key macro-economic, social, demographic and industry statistics for 215 countries
Live feed of news, comment and analysis to keep you fully up-to-date with all the latest business developments
Fundamental data on over 50,000 global publicly traded companies
Annual reports for over 300,000 companies worldwide
Coverage on over 1,000,000 domestic and international private companies
Industry reports covering North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America
Executive biographies on over 200,000 confirmed corporate executives, updated daily
Earnings estimates from Thomson First Call
Microsoft Excel plug-in for data modeling and analysis
Equity research reports with analyst recommendations covering over 4,000 large-cap and mid-cap companies
Institutional holdings and insider transaction data, updated daily
Up to 30 years of adjusted and unadjusted end-of-day equity pricing data
Historical information on security pricing dating back to 1925
Mergent Online offers detailed insight into company and industry research.
Morningstar, Inc. is a provider of independent investment research in the United States and in major international markets. Included is information on 13,000+ mutual funds, 600+ ETFs, 8,000+ stocks from NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges, 250 screenable fund datapoints, 450 screenable stock datapoints, 2,000 Fund Analyst Reports, and 2,000+ Stock Analyst Reports.
Morningstar provides comprehensive information on stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, hedge funds, and 529 college savings plans.
Business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed, and international unlisted companies.
Use PrivCo to find information on private investors, private M&A deals, and venture capital funding rounds. The advanced search feature allows you to identify companies and investors by industry, size, location, and more, and information can be exported to Excel.Over 220,000 private companies are included in the database.
LexisNexis Academic covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits.
Subjects covered in Academic include: top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research. Coverage: 1990's-present
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Covers accounting, banking, finance and economics, management, marketing, MIS, POM, and other business topics. Coverage: 1886-present
