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MGMT 645

Public Company Information

Lexis/Nexis Company Dossier
     Good for:

  • Company Financial information
  • Legal Information
  • Intellectual Property Information

MergentOnline
     Good for:

  • Company financial information
  • Subsidiaries
  • Long term debt and capital stock information
  • Equity Portraits for determining investment value

Market Insight
     Good for:
(Select COMPANY button at top of screen)

  • Peer group comparison
  • Company financial information
  • S & P Stock Reports

Business, Industry & Merger News Sources

Factiva
     Good for:

  • Full-text Wall Street Journal (back 20+ years)
  • Top 50 US newspapers coverage
  • Company Press Releases
  • Major Business Publications

LexisNexis Academic
     Good for:
(Select BUSINESS, then BUSINESS NEWS, then limit to INDUSTRY NEWS or MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS)

  • Industry news
  • Merger and acquisitions information

ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
     Good for:

  • Industry and trade publications

Industry & Market Sources

Tablebase
     Good for:

  • Market share & market rankings
  • Numerical/statistical data

Industry ratios

     Good for:

The Management & Economics Library is staffed with 5 faculty librarians and 3 reference assistants from 8:00am to 5:00pm Mon. - Fri.  WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU!

Last update: October 29, 2009

Prepared by: Hal Kirkwood kirkwood@purdue.edu