Company & Industry Information: Public Companies

Offers reports on over 100,000 companies from all over the world. Company reports vary in size and content, but many are quite extensive and include Key Competitors, a SWOT Analysis, Company Histories, and key employees and biographies.

Select Company Profiles from the search box drop down menu and then type in the name of your company and press search. From the results, click on your company and use the navigation bar on the left to find the company profile, financials, news, research reports, and SWOT analysis.

Contains a wealth of company information from a variety of sources (MarketLine, Hoover's, and more), but it can be challenging to locate it all.

Start your search for company information in the Company Dossier. You can find the Company Dossier by clicking on the array of dots next to Nexis Uni, then selecting Company Dossier (as shown in the screenshot below). This will bring you to the "Find a Company" tab. From here, you can search for a company by company name, ticker symbol, DUNS number, dossier ID, or KVK number.

Once you locate your company's dossier, you can explore a vast amount of information using the tabs on the left navigator bar, including brands, competitors, company history, news, a financial overview, industry overview, investment research, trademarks, and legal case.

Business Source Complete includes a specific search option for company information. The easiest way to access this interface is to go to the Business Searching Interface linked above. From this interface, click on "Company Information" on the navigation bar at the top of the page. From there, you can search for a company by name, parent company, ticker symbol, or keyword.

In the Nexis Uni database, balance sheet financials and ratios for any group of publicly traded companies can be compared by searching in the Company Dossier portion of the site.

1. Click on the array of dots next to Nexis Uni at the top of the screen to select the Company Dossier link.
2. Click on the Company tab and then select Compare Companies.
3. Key in ticker symbols or names for as many companies as you want to compare.
4. Retrieve a Company Financial Comparison giving balance sheet and income statement items, followed by the header Ratio Analysis with a long list of ratios.  

NOTE: This will work best with companies who are direct competitors in the industry (i.e. they have the same primary NAICS code that your company has). Comparing two companies with diversified operations may be of limited value. For example, Apple and Motorola are competing for mobile phone business; but each one competes in a good many other product markets as well. So ratios for the whole company do not give a very clear or complete picture of how they fare in the cell phone market.