LibGuides: Business: Companies

Company Directories & Lists

These resources help you do quick company look-ups and/or create lists based on criteria like 'give me all the companies in San Diego that have under 250 employees.'

Winmo (formerly Advertising RedBooks)
Gale Business Insights
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Leadership Connect
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Access limited to one user at a time. Formerly called Leadership Directories.

Rich's Business Directories for California
Uniworld Company Directories
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Search criteria can include geography, industry, size of company, and much more.
Gale Directory Library

Resources for Company News & Background

These items are useful for market research, competitive intelligence and following what's going on with individual companies. The first three links serve well as starting points because they are the most broadly-useful databases that cover all kinds of international public and private companies. The rest of the items have more limited use but function very well in the domains they address, so may be helpful when further information is sought.

Gale Business Insights
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Market Share Reporter & Business Rankings Annual (in Gale Business Insights)
Use the Advanced Search form in Gale Business Insights to hone in on market share/rankings information on companies & industries. Simply input your search term in the top and click the market share/rankings box under Content Type.

Business Source Complete
Factiva
Scroll down on the landing page to the Newsstand: US section for the latest content of Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Barron's & more.
Nexis Uni
Mergent Online
Sports Market Analytics (formerly SBRnet)
Refinitiv Workspace Workspace 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
RW is only available to UC San Diego students, faculty, and staff; only for non-commercial, academic research. It replaces ThomsonONE/Investext and Datastream, and now works across several browsers.

Register only once; otherwise login to Workspace using the main link. You may use web or desktop app version (includes the Workspace add-in for Excel), once you are registered.

Company Financials & Stock Quotes

Mergent Online
Mergent Archives
Refinitiv Workspace Workspace 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
RW is only available to UC San Diego students, faculty, and staff; only for non-commercial, academic research. It replaces ThomsonONE/Investext and Datastream, and now works across several browsers.

Register only once; otherwise login to Workspace using the main link. You may use web or desktop app version (includes the Workspace add-in for Excel), once you are registered.

Wharton Research Data Services
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To use, UCSD faculty, graduate and undergraduate students must request a WRDS account, via the front page of the WRDS site.
EDGAR Database

Research Help

Adele Barsh

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Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian

UC San Diego Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Dr. 0175R

La Jolla, CA 92093-0175

Subjects: Business