Finance Databases

The chart below displays databases with financial information that BIS subscribes to annually. The chart provides the broad topics which are available within each database. To access the database desired, click on the database title to take you to the database. If you are off campus, you will be required to type your Illinois Net ID and password first for authentication.

Note: WRDS is available only to Gies College of Business.

Bloomberg terminals are located at the Market Information Lab (MIL) in the Business Instructional Facility located at 515 East Gregory Drive, Champaign.

Information about the Bloomberg Professional Service is available here (accessed September 17, 2018).

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.  

Mergers and Acquisitions

This resource provides comprehensive information on all announced, completed or pending transactions that involve a change of 5% or more in ownership. U.S. deals from 1979 to date, and non-U.S. deals from 1985 to date are covered. Supplies up to 1,400 data elements for each transaction.

This database is available for Business School Doctoral students and Faculty through Business Information Services. If one needs in-depth navigation assistance, please make an appointment with a BIS faculty member by emailing BIS@library.illinois.edu and specifying dates and times available to meet.

Morningstar Direct

This resource has financial statements and stock prices for many equities as well as Mutual Funds. Some hedge fund data can be located in this database. For use, call or e-mail the Market Information Lab at BIF.

The Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) resource consists of many datasets in the areas of accounting, economics, and finance available in a web interface and can be downloaded into many formats, including SAS.  WRDS acts as a subscription gateway or a shell to other subscription datasets.  The data are maintained and supported by Wharton staff. The data modules Illinois subscribes to include the following.

• Audit Analytics- Access detailed audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies. Know who is auditing whom and how much they are paying for what services. Create reports by auditor, fees, location, industry, etc.
• Bureau Van Djik- has balance sheets and income statements for private and public companies around the world.
• Capital IQ- has key developments, identifiers, and capital structure, including debt.  Data is not as inclusive as found in regular Capital IQ.  Also known as COMPUSTAT.
• COMPUSTAT/Capital IQ North America-database of U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies from the past 20 years. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items.  Note: not every section within CapIQ/Compustat is subscribed to.  
• CRSP (Center for Research Securities and Prices)- maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, and mutual fund databases. It also provides CRSP/Compustat Merged Database, a database that simplifies matching COMPUSTAT financial data to the CRSP security price data.  Note: not every section within CRSP is subscribed to.  
• ExecuCOMP- offers executive compensation data including current, historical, total compensation, executive options and compensation of industry peers. Selected company financial information enables one to compare executive pay versus company performance, revealing previously hard-to-find information. The ExecuComp database includes detailed breakouts of compensation data under the pre-2006 reporting rules so that one can research historical compensation trends. Published by COMPUSTAT, part of the Capital IQ module.
• I/B/E/S- contain historical earnings estimates. 
• Institutional Holdings and Insiders Data- supplies data from 13F, 144A, and Rule 10b5 filings.
• ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services)- provides executive compensation performance metrics, goals and payout structure. Includes peer data for benchmarking. 
• NYSE TAQ- database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues.
• OptionMetrics- a comprehensive source of historical price and implied volatility data for the US equity and index options markets. Encompassing more than six years of data, Ivy DB OptionMetrics contains historical prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, correctly calculated implied volatilities, and option sensitivities.
• SEC Analytics- provides parsing functionality of SEC filings. 

In addition, some financial indexes and econometric databases are available that are part of the overall WRDS database, but for individual subscribers only:

• Bank Regulatory
• Blockholders
• CBOE Indexes
• DMEF
• Dow Jones
• FDIC
• Fama French, Momentum, and Liquidity
• Federal Reserve Bank Reports
• PHLX
• Penn World Tables
• SEC Disclosure of Order Execution
• TRACE

WRDS is available on a cost-recovery subscription basis for non-College of Business and UIUC students, faculty and staff, and must be pre-approved for office accounts. Please e-mail Jamie Ritter in Gies Disruption & Innovation for account information. Personal credit cards, cash, or checks are not accepted.   Any non-Gies student or faculty member must go through their department to transfer interdepartmental funds within Banner. 

(Note: Some wording for databases borrowed from the Thomas J. Long Library at Berkeley and from Capital IQ.)

Captial IQ is a subsidiary of Standard & Poors. Its database of the same name contains company and industry news, including announcements of recent mergers, buybacks, and acquisitions that did not materialize. It also has annual reports and filings for several years and one can screen by type of filing.

Captial IQ is available in the Margolis Market Information Lab at BIF and through the Wharton Research Data System (WRDS).

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.