Kresge Research Guides: Finance: Company Financials

Company Financials

Mergent Online
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Current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock and insider trading for US and foreign companies.
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PitchBook
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Pitchbook has estimated financials for companies involved in PE and VC deals.
D&B Hoovers
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Information on nearly one million companies, including large and mid-sized companies in the United States and Canada, and hundreds of thousands of companies world-wide.
Orbis
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Information about European, US, Canadian, South and Central American, Japanese, Chinese, and African companies, as well as banks and insurance companies.
Technical Notes: Use of scripts or automated methods to download data from Orbis is strictly prohibited. If you require access to a larger dataset, please contact us at kresge_library@umich.edu.
PrivCo
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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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S&P Capital IQ
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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.
For S&P Capital IQ Transcripts, see WRDS
WRDS Wharton Research Data Services
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Access to datasets including COMPUSTAT, CRSP, Eventus, I/B/E/S (Earnings estimates), OptionMetrics, TRACE and more.
Data sets include:

Bank Regulatory
Beta Suite by WRDS
Blockholders
BoardEx
Bureau van Dijk
CBOE Indexes
Compustat - Capital IQ
CRSP
DMEF Academic Data
Dow Jones
Efficient Frontier by WRDS
Event Study by WRDS
Eventus
Fama French & Liquidity Factors
Federal Reserve Bank
Financial Ratios Suite by WRDS
IBES
IHS Global Insight
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)
ISSM
Linking Suite by WRDS
MFLINKS
MSRB
Option Metrics
Option Suite by WRDS
OTC Markets
Penn World Tables
Peters and Taylor Total Q
PHLX
Public
RavenPack News Analytics
Research Quotient
SAS Visual Analytics
SEC Order Execution
Thomson Reuters
TRACE
World Indices by WRDS

For descriptions see WRDS Dataset List from Ross Research Computing

Analyst Reports

Mergent Online
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Use the Investext tab in Mergent to access equity analyst reports from firms such as RBC Capital, Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo and others.
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LSEG Workspace
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Reports about company performance and industry analysis by the world's leading investment firms. Contact librarian for search assistance

Corporate filings

Intelligize
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Intelligize from LexisNexis is an analytics tool that allows advanced queries on designated sections in public filings and exhibits submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. There are also comment letters written by SEC Examiners, no-action letters, and regulatory materials. Merger and acquisition deal information is also available.

Technical notes: You must create an account using your @umich email address.

Additional Databases

Bloomberg

Use Bloomberg to find current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both international and domestic markets.
Multiple Bloomberg terminals are available in the Tozzi Financial Center (located in the basement of Ross) and one terminal is located in the Kresge 4th floor study area.

Factset

Use Factset to find financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies
Scroll down to the Factset entry for information on how to request an account.
Factset is also available in the Tozzi Center.

Datastream

See LSEG Workspace for access (note: account activation can take 24+ hours)
Datastream is a historical financial database with data on instruments from all major asset classes and economic indicators. Datastream has been incorporated into LSEG Workspace as of 2024.
- Data spans bond indices, bonds, commodities, convertibles, credit default swaps, derivatives, economics, energy, equities, equity indices, ESG, estimates, exchange rates, fixed income, funds, fundamentals, interest rates, and investment trusts.
- Unique content includes I/B/E/S earnings estimate aggregates (International Brokers Estimate System), Worldscope Fundamentals Point in Time data, MCSI, DJ Stoxx and FTSE All World, and Reuters Polls.