These resources are great for finding out key companies operating in an industry and/or identifying one company you want to research.
The instructions below help anyone use our resources when they want to lookup a specific company or find an unknown one. The highlighted resources originally were selected for an upper-level undergraduate class that had to find and pick a public company to study. Some students knew which company they wanted to study. Others wanted to browse to pick a company or look at a short list of options.
Everyone eventually develops their own favorite way to find and follow public companies. Below are some common ones.
Note - if you need absolutely accurate company financials for your coursework, do not use Yahoo Finance or Gale Business Insights. Instead use any of the resources under the Financials & SEC filings tab of this guide.
This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new windowWorkspace provides financial and economic data, news, equity reports, and company & industry analysis. Its international in scope and covers both public and private company information. RW is most often used for investment analysts’ reports, public company financials & filings, business news, economic indicators, stock prices, and data, and a variety of instruments (bonds, commodities, currencies, ETFs, futures, indexes, options and more). Unique content includes ESG data, performance forecasts & consensus estimates, deals & transactions (M&A, IPOs, venture capital & private equity). Download limit of 150 pages per day, reset daily at midnight local time. New users complete self-registration here - https://my.refinitiv.com/productregistration.html
