Company Research: Profiles - Background

D&B Hoovers offers public and private company profiles for US and global companies. Includes company descriptions and history, recent news, industry codes, financials and ratios, stock price summaries, SEC filings, annual reports, hierarchy/corporate family tree data, SWOT analysis, competitors and lists of technologies used. The “Build a List” function allows users to create company lists based on numerous parameters.
Industry content includes additional ratios from RMA Industry Norms and analysis from MarketLine, Fredonia Focus and a few investment firms.

Current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock, insider trading and supply chain for US and foreign companies. Mergent Online also provides access to Investext analyst reports.
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Technical notes: Company reports and financials can be exported to Excel.

Orbis contains information about European, US, Canadian, South and Central American, Japanese, Chinese, and African companies, as well as banks and insurance companies. Financials, peer comparison, corporate ownership and deals are included.

Users are required to enter 'University of Michigan' in the 'Enter your organization's name' box to authenticate and use the database.

American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries & Foreign Firms Operating in the US

S&P Capital IQ platform provides research, data, and analysis on private and public companies. Financial information for over 100,000 companies globally. Additional data on industries, capital structure, M&A, PE, fixed income, hierarchy/corporate family tree data, and company-level ownership information are also included. Historical and forecast macroeconomic data and historical data on over 270 commodities series, with some available to 1970.

Locate INVESTEXT tab. Analyst reports by some of the world's major investment firms

Reports about company performance and industry analysis by the world's leading investment firms. Contact librarian for search assistance

PrivCo contains business and financial research for over 600,000 non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. Search for Venture Capital (VC) fundings, private Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals, Private Equity (PE) deals, and general company information. Private company profiles contain financials, corporate structure, key contacts, investors and industry information.
Technical notes: Personal account using @umich.edu email required.
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Private company information from Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet

Search thousands of Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) deals by hundreds of criteria. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, find real time data on deals, identify and analyze comparables, and search investor details. The Research Center has market updates, FactBooks, PlayBooks and Emerging Technology Research reports that will keep you up to date on the private market. Ross MBA students only.

Information about M&A, IPO, and venture capital deals, going back five years for international deals and back to 1997 for deals involving European and American companies.