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COMPANY & INDUSTRY

Company Information

  • Business Wire -- Provides access to company profiles, annual reports, and company news.
  • Forbes Lists -- Search the Forbes ranked lists of companies and other Forbes lists: Forbes 400, 200 Best Small Companies, 400 Best Big Companies, and more.
  • Fortune -- Access to Fortune 500, Global 500, Best Companies to Work For and Magazine Archive.
  • Hoover's -- Access to the profile database for free (some) information on companies, industries and executives.
  • InsiderInfo Business -- Information on Real Estate, Employment, Financing, Accounting, Business Lawyer, and thousands of other business related products and service.
  • Researching Companies Online -- A business research tutorial that provides step-by-step instruction for finding company and industry information on the Web.
  • ThomasNet (formerly Thomas Register) -- ThomasNet is a directory containing over 72,000 product headings and 170,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers. It allows you to search by product, company or brand name. Provides you with basic contact information as well as links to websites and e-catalogs. Free registration required for some features.
  • Websters Online -- A business directory/search engine. Provides company profiles and contact information. SIC/NAICS Codes and product information can also be found.

Financial Data

  • Big Charts -- Provides access to stock quotes, reports and indicators on over 50,000 stocks, mutual funds, market indexes, and historical quotes back to 1985.
  • Bloomberg Web -- Offers up-to-date financial news, pricing information, and industry analysis.
  • EDGAR -- Provides company and filing: 10-K, 20-F, proxy statements, some annual reports, and other financial statements of public companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • FreeEDGAR -- Offers users easy, basic access to SEC EDGAR filings.
  • PRARS (Public Register's Annual Report Service) -- America's largest annual report service which provides, free of charge, company financials, including annual reports, prospectuses or 10-Ks on over 3,600 public companies.
  • Stockmaster -- Provides information on stock exchange, historical stock quotes, current trading, mutual funds,international stock and more.
  • Yahoo! Finance -- Provides information on U.S. and world markets, stocks, mutual funds, bonds, options, company finance, investing ideas and other useful Web sites.
  • Yahoo Finance Company and Fund Index
      Company profiles from the Market Guide with information on over 9,000 public companies.
  • Yahoo Stock Research Center -- Information on company earnings,reports, mutual funds, bonds and more.
  • Zacks.com --Charts, comparisons, and reports on over 6,000 companies, sectors, and industries.

Industry Information

Industry Classification Systems

  • Standard Industrial Classification Search -- Search the Standard Industrial Classification Manual by keyword. Access to descriptions for a specified 4-digit SIC.
  • 2002 NAICS Index --S earch the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS).

    • Industry Analysis/Overviews

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    Last Modified: 02/04/2008