Provides detailed information about U.S. and International public companies. Content includes: links to SEC EDGAR filings, current and archived company profiles and annual reports, historical financial and stock price data, financial ratios, equity research reports, and industry reports.
Private Company Financials
Private company data is harder to come by than public company data. These resources may help.
Nexis UniThe new successor to LexisNexis Academic, Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches, and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Guidestar is a site that compiles profiles of nonprofits, and includes the IRS 990 forms. Create a free account and when you login, you can see the latest three years of IRS fillings.
This online version of Dun & Bradstreet's Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios includes current benchmarking data for U.S. public and private businesses using parameters of solvency, profitability and efficiency for 800 lines of business. Features include importing and exporting of data. For historical ratios (older than current five years), use the Mergent Archives.
Background on Analysis
These books provide background on understanding financial statements and using ratio analysis.
An updated guide to financial statement analysis that will help you better understand of the techniques that will help you interpret financial statements.
Covers nearly 250 operational criteria and offers clear, easy-to-understand explanations. This book is intended as an authoritative resource. It helps the process of measuring corporate performance, by allowing its users to pick and choose the tools they need to best assess their organization's performance. This most recent edition added twenty measurements.
This is a pioneering book that integrates functional analysis of a business enterprise with stock market valuation. It moves beyond the convention of financial statement analysis to first evaluate every function of management and then integrate this into the total corporate functioning of an enterprise, leading to its valuation in the stock market.
Presents numerous ratios that represent guidelines in assessing, interpreting and planning financial data to meet the objectives of managing a business entity more effectively. It shows how to calculate and use ratios in analyzing past performance results and making industry comparisons.