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Financials


Financial data is available for public corporations only, not for privately held companies or for subsidiaries.

  • Factiva

    Factiva has over 32,000 major global newspapers, newswires, industry publications, magazines, reports and other sources. Although its focus is business news, it can be used to locate information on a variety of topics, including politics, current events, trends and government data.

  • GuideStar

    Profiles on nonprofit organizations, including mission, legitimacy, impact, reputation, finances, programs, transparency, governance, and more. Provided by Haslam College of Business.

  • Mergent Archives

    Brief summary financials for U.S. and international corporations. Reports cover from 1909 to 2006.

  • Mergent Online

    For U.S. and international corporations, has downloadable annual and quarterly balance sheet and other financial data for 3-15 years. Data available as reported, standardized, or restated.

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  • Morningstar Investment Research Center

    Search for company, then select Financials on the left menu for 10 years of annual data. Covers both U.S. and international corporations. Limited to 2 simultaneous users.

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  • Nexis Uni

    Provides legal news, business, and cases and codes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Also includes legal research sources and business information for US and international companies.

  • PrivCo 

    A source for business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. The primary area of focus is on companies with at least $10 Million in annual revenue.

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  • NetAdvantage

  • Summary financial data for U.S. public corporations. Usually covers 8-10 years.

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  • Value Line

  • Key in your company after you click on the right top corner "Institutional". You then will have a choice of different Pdf documents to download. Provides summary data for 10-15 years for about 1600 U.S. Corporations.

Annual Reports/SEC Documents
 

Both annual shareholder reports, 10K's and other SEC filings for the current and for prior years are available via the databases below. In addition, annual shareholder reports for the current year can usually be found on a company's web site.  Current SEC financial disclosure filings, such as the annual 10K report, may also be available on the company web site.

  • EDGAR

    From the SEC official web site, contains a full collection all SEC filings from 1995 forward.

  • FormDs

    Nearly all startups and investment firms file Form Ds with the SEC when they raise money. A Form D filing contains:
    *Amount of money raised
    *Equity or debt issuance
    *Industry category
    *Names of the executives and directors
    *Addresses for the company, executives, and directors
    *Other information - brokers used, commission paid

  • Historical Annual Reports, 10K's and Proxy Statements

    An historical collection of these documents is available on microfiche in the Library Storage. Annual reports begin in 1966, 10K's in 1974 and proxies in 1978. This microfiche collection ends in 1997. Check the Master Index at the Storage to find the year and fiche number for the annual report or the proxy statement of a given company. [Library Storage is closed at the moment]

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  • Mergent Online

    For U.S. and international corporations, has downloadable annual and quarterly balance sheet and other financial data for 3-15 years. Data available as reported, standardized, or restated.

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  • Mergent WebReports

    Mergent WebReports is an archive of corporate reports from the Moodys and Mergent Corporate Manuals. Mergent WebReports contains more than 180,00 documents, dating back to the early 1900's. Collection is in PDF format and can be searched by company name, year, or manual type. List of manuals include: BANK & FINANCE, INDUSTRIAL, INTERNATIONAL, OTC INDUSTRIAL, PUBLIC UTILITY, TRANSPORTATION, OTC UNLISTED, ARCHIVES SUPPLEMENT.

  • Morningstar Investment Research Center

  • Has annual shareholder reports and SEC 10K and 10Q reports from 2000 forward.

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  • Annual Reports at Academic Business Libraries

  • Here is a merged list of print corporate Annual Reports at Harvard, MIT, Purdue, Stanford, etc.. Note: most are for onsite users only; Purdue is the only university that allows borrowing via Interlibrary Loan.

  • The Library of Congress

  • Selected Corporate Annual Reports Available at the Library of Congress

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ProQuest Historical Annual Reports

  • Annual reports (1844-2008) available for over 800 companies, 43,000 reports, 1.3M pages. Searchable puff images with indexed data such as: financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies. It can also be browsed by company name, related names, industry, or date.

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Annual Reports.com

  • Annual reports for 8,013 international companies

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Columbia Historical Corporate Reports

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The Library of Congress Master Company List

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Harvard Business School Library Compiany Filings and Annual Report

  • Baker Library has one of the largest collections of corporate reports in the world. The collection includes annual reports, 10-Ks, 10-Qs, proxy statements, prospectuses, etc. for U.S. and international companies dating from 1820 to the present in paper held by Special Collections and Archives, in microform available through the Stamps Reading Room and electronically through databases.

Analysts' Reports
 

  • Morningstar Investment Research Center

    Search for company, then select Analyst Research on the left menu. Covers both U.S. and international corporations. Frequent updates. Limited to 2 simultaneous users.

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  • NetAdvantage

    Click on Companies on the top blue menu bar or use the Database Search box on the right to find stock reports and analysis for U.S public companies.

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  • Value Line
  • Choose Lookup Company from left menu bar. Summary analysis is updated quarterly.

 
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