Databases for company research

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Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Find articles from academic journals and business magazines, as well as company profiles, market research, and industry reports.

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Orbis (Company information) This link opens in a new window
Find global public and private company profiles. Orbis provides financial information, M&A Deals, ownership, and corporate family information.
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Winmo This link opens in a new window
Find data on advertising agencies, advertisers, key contacts, ad spends, media types, and more with this sales prospecting tool formerly known as the Advertising Red Books.
Value Line Research Center This link opens in a new window
Information and advice on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, and convertibles.
PitchBook This link opens in a new window
Find data, research and technology covering the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions.
Note: You must first set up a personal account with an email address ending in "@arizona.edu" to use this database.
For problems logging into an existing account, click the "Create an account" link, enter your name and arizona.edu email address and "create", then click on the link in the email you receive and reset password.
Restrictions on use:
Users may not publish PitchBooks data to any public forum such as a publicly available website.
Users may not use PitchBook data for any non-academic purpose.
University may institute disciplinary actions against any Users who intentionally misuse PitchBooks data.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Find news from U.S. and international newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs, as well as business profiles, patents, and legal research.
Note: May require users to log in with their NetID even on campus.

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Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) This link opens in a new window
Data Axle Reference Solutions can help users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds, and locate people. This database has access to millions of US and Canadian businesses, consumers, U.S. new businesses, and U.S. new homeowners.
Historical ReferenceUSA data is available in ReDATA.
Euromonitor's Passport GMID This link opens in a new window
Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide. Detailed analysis of consumer and industrial markets around the world across 781 cities, 210 countries, and 27 industries with historic data from 1997 and forecasts through 2020. Passport data is completely cross-country comparable.

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Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) This link opens in a new window
Data Axle Reference Solutions can help users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds, and locate people. This database has access to millions of US and Canadian businesses, consumers, U.S. new businesses, and U.S. new homeowners.
Historical ReferenceUSA data is available in ReDATA.
Orbis (Company information) This link opens in a new window
Find global public and private company profiles. Orbis provides financial information, M&A Deals, ownership, and corporate family information.
Note: Does not work with Safari. Please use a different browser.
PitchBook This link opens in a new window
Find data, research and technology covering the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions.
Note: You must first set up a personal account with an email address ending in "@arizona.edu" to use this database.
For problems logging into an existing account, click the "Create an account" link, enter your name and arizona.edu email address and "create", then click on the link in the email you receive and reset password.
Restrictions on use:
Users may not publish PitchBooks data to any public forum such as a publicly available website.
Users may not use PitchBook data for any non-academic purpose.
University may institute disciplinary actions against any Users who intentionally misuse PitchBooks data.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Find news from U.S. and international newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs, as well as business profiles, patents, and legal research.
Note: May require users to log in with their NetID even on campus.

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Company financial information

Bizminer This link opens in a new window
BizMiner produces the most granular industry statistical reports in the market. The database provides industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. Our market analysis reports are available at the national and local levels down to the zip code.
Value Line Research Center This link opens in a new window
Information and advice on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, and convertibles.

There are a number of sources available for company financials for publicly traded companies. Fewer sources are available for private companies, and when you do find figures, those are less likely to be exact figures and are often estimates.

LexisNexis Company Dossier
Select the Get Company Info box in the lower right of the page, then select the Company Dossier link. On the next screen, you can use the Compare Companies tab to analyze up to five companies at a time.
EDGAR (from the SEC)
All companies, U.S. and foreign, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. On the left side of the page, select Company Filings Search. If you're looking for information in the financial filings, it can be useful to select the link for SEC Forms List (PDF versions) and look at the form descriptions.

Company news

In the following databases, try searching by company name:

Access Business News This link opens in a new window
Access to business and law journals, local and regional business news weeklies and other news sources across North America. 1980-present
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Find news from U.S. and international newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs, as well as business profiles, patents, and legal research.
Note: May require users to log in with their NetID even on campus.

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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Current full-text of the Wall Street Journal newspaper back to 1984, with in-depth coverage of national & international finance and business as well as coverage of general news events.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Find business news and articles from major U.S. metropolitan areas, 1990-present.
ABI/INFORM Archive This link opens in a new window
Find archival coverage for articles, summaries, and citations in business, management, and marketing, from 1905-1985.

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