LibGuides: iMSA: Finding Company Financials

Hoover's Academic Pro

Hoover's Academic Pro
Use this database to build a company list and search for company, industry and people profiles.

Hoover's gives you access to best in class data made up of approximately 84 million private and public companies, including subsidiaries. Below is a screenshot of the company list builder and its criteria.

Mergent Online

Mergent Online
Includes U.S. Company Data and International Company Data. Rich textual descriptions offer a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock.
(Annual reports for most companies are available back to 1996.)

To find company reports, use the "company search" window on the left side of the home page. You can limit your search to companies in a specific country. Make sure the "International Company Database" box on the left side is checked. Then, click on the "Country" drop-down menu on the right side, select the name, and click search.

Once you have found a company and reached its "company details" page; click the "filings" tab. You will see a table containing details of the company's recent filings. The icons in the "view documents" tab will provide you with various formats for viewing the filings.

If the filing you are looking for is more than 90 days old; you will need to use the EDGAR search function. In the "company search" section; select the Government Filings tab near the top of the page and enter a company name or ticker symbol.

In the "filing date search" section; specify a time frame for your search. Finally; in the "filing type" section; specify what type of filings you are interested in. (Again; Form 10-K is the government-required annual report for publicly-traded companies.)

Mergent Online also has financial ratios. Chad Boenniger at Ohio State has a good video describing how to search the database for individual companies or creating reports which compare ratios of company peers within industries for checking your work when making ratio calculations.

PrivCo

PrivCo
"Business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies." Contains data on over 650,000 U.S. private companies, over 100,000 private market deals and venture captial fundings, and over 18,000 private market market investors. May search by keyword as well as by industry.

Access is free for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign users, but you must create an account. Sign up with your university e-mail address from the main page. Once inside, search by company or investor name.

User Guide
For more information about PrivCo, click on the PDF icon

Users can search by Company name or keyword in the top search bar.

Under advanced search options, found by clicking on the magnifying glass icon on the left hand side, you can search by term, geography, keyword, revenue, ownership, and more.

Mergent Web Reports

Mergent Web Reports Digital Corporate Manuals Moody's Online
The digitized archival manuals published formerly by Moody's Investor Service. Depending on the company, the reports are archived back to 1909.

ProQuest Historical Annual Reports

ProQuest Historical Annual Reports

These reports are available through ABI/Inform. Once in ABI/Inform, click on 'Business Databases' in the upper left-hand corner. Scroll down and under 'databases' make sure only the box next to 'ProQuest Historical Annual Reports' is checked.

Proquest Historical Annual Reports over 800 companies' annual reports in PDF format, many of them back to the 1900's.