SEC-EDGAR
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval) is the Security Exchange Commission's database of US and some international filings.
- 10K Filing - annual, contains company financial information via consolidated statements and financial footnotes, some directors information and legal agreements/cases. Cost of Goods Sold or cost of sales, or cost of revenues along with some mention of marketing expenditures (which are also found in Sales and General Administrative Expenses, depends on the company and its industry), and R&D Expenditures
- 8K Filing - News or any changes at an US company that may merit financial risk
- 6K Filing - News about non-US companies who file on one of the US exchanges
- 20F Filing - Annual report of non-US companies but is not as comprehensive as the 10K
Accessing Databases
If you're having trouble accessing a database or getting an error code, try opening the link in an incognito or private window. For further assistance, contact bis@library.illinois.edu.
Company Information
Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
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Delivers company, executive officer, and industry information in a searchable database. Includes parent, subsidiary, branch and competitor information.
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS)
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This resource delivers hard-to-get information on more than 80 emerging markets. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 13,000 local and global publications.
Click the tab on the right of the page to open the menu. Then click Markets.
Scroll down to search an industry profile or country by name.
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.
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.
Need More Help?
Grainger Engineering Library Information Center's STEM Entrepreneurship & Business Services can assist you in getting started with these and other resources. If you have any questions, please e-mail bis@library.illinois.edu.
