LibGuides: MSF/MSFE Guide to Library Research Sources: Fundamentals

Reference Solutions

Reference Solutions This link opens in a new window
This resource connects users to over 60 million individual business records and over 298 million consumer records and 329 million historical business records. A variety of demographic factors can be used to create custom lists that can be downloaded directly to Excel or rendered within graphs, charts and heat maps. This database is ideal for entrepreneurial planning, market research, GIS mapping projects, job-seeking activities, gauging economic trends and more.

Capital IQ

Capital IQ (Gies only)

What does it contain: profiles of 750,000 private and public firms worldwide including financials, officers and directors (people) , ownership, transactions, securities, key developments, estimates, filings, news, comparables analysis and more.

You may screen for companies or other criteria. The training video on screening techniques is here. You must be in the database to view it.

The Market Information Lab has a good video on screening for deals (transactions). Video is almost 17 minutes long, but gives several examples using scenarios.

Refinitiv Workspace

What does it provide: a platform that features market trends, company financial and deals data, private equity and venture capital, breaking news, and some reports by leading analysts and firms.

Note: you must sign up for an account first, using your IL Net ID. It may take awhile for the registration to complete.

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
U.S. company data: An Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings; U.S. Annual Reports: Easy-to-access current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies, all in PDF image format that provides faster download and allows viewing the document; International company data: More companies from more countries than any other international database, with global searching across databases; International Annual Reports: Hard-to-get, timely annual reports on all companies in our International Company Data database, available in PDF image formats; Corporate Visibility: Expanded, in-depth, and detailed descriptions of public companies as they appear in the Mergent Manuals (fka Moody's Manuals), which were first published in 1918.

WRDS

The Wharton Research Data System is a platform of company and finance data. Among the common datasets used for research:

Compustat - company financials and some equity pricing; also executive compensation
CRSP (pronounced "crisp") - Center for Research in Security Prices - daily equity prices going back to the 1960's
Bureau Van Djik - company fundamentals including subsidiaries globally; private company data is limited

Learners in MSF/MSFE may access WRDS once the instructors have set up class accounts.

Procurement IQ

ProcurementIQ This link opens in a new window
Provides market intelligence and category research reports, as well as other services, related to over 1,000 procurement categories.