General Sources:
Corporate Intelligence (CI)
AnnualReports.com
A free service allowing users to review an annual report in an easy and
convenient manner. Boasting the most complete and up-to-date listings
of annual reports on the Internet, AnnualReports.com provides instant
access to annual reports in their actual format in one single location.
Aurora
WDC
This competitive intelligence provider has dedicated a section of its
site to intelligence resources. These include essays and articles (by
company professionals), a bookstore, a research report library, a community
discussion board and, best of all, free expert advice. The company promises
to deliver its advice, to simple queries, within 24 hours at no cost –
a truly remarkable gift for those needing quick answers.
Brint.com:
The BizTech Network
Vast metadatabase of links to just about every type of information on
business and technology, both on issues and on specific companies. Best
of all, most of the links take you to free access sites.
The
CI Resource Index
For once, a site's own tagline is pretty close to the truth; the Resource
Index does a very good job of providing "competitive intelligence
resources categorized." Those categories include associations, books,
companies, documentation (including tutorials and industry review articles),
publications, and software. An excellent starting point to the Web's CI
resources
Corporate
Information
Excellent compiler of corporate profiles and other company information
sources. Site is hosted by Wright Investors' Service, whose reports registered
users can access. For nonusers, free link access is provided to company
profiles and research reports; it also allows for searches by country
and for searches on a particular industry in a particular country.
The
Corporate Library
Independent research company allows free searches of its reports on members
of the S&P 500. Subscribers can access its larger database of reports
on publicly held companies analyzing such topics as CEO compensation and
corporate governance, as well as documents including books, news articles,
conference proceedings, legal briefs and opinions, and academic research
papers and studies. Longer entries are fully abstracted.
Factiva
(formerly Dow Jones Interactive)
Some free content exists on this site, though most is available through
a combination of subscription and per-item fees. But if you need detailed
industry reports or want to conduct company research, you might not mind
paying for the convenient, searchable access this site offers. Among the
free content are several well-written, step-by-step tutorials that spell
out the best methods for researching companies and industries using any
kind of sources.
Hoover's
Industry-leading corporate information site offers comprehensive collection
of company profiles – searchable alphabetically, by industry and by company
type. Hoover's U.K. is also available. Deeper information, including research
reports, requires paid subscription.
Internetnews.com
Basic but effective stocks and stock market news site with quotes and
market reports, SEC filings for U.S. public companies, and financial information
on Canadian companies.
SEC
Filings From EDGAR
Official Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) site allows searching
of EDGAR financial filings for public companies; information retrievable
by form and/or by company name.
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