WMBA 505 Corporate Strategy (Fall 2021) : Company Research

D&B Hoovers has public and private company profiles for US and global companies. Profiles include company descriptions and history, financials and ratios, hierarchy/corporate family tree data, SWOT analysis, news, competitors, SIC industry codes, NAICS industry codes, SEC filings, and annual reports. The “Build a List” function allows users to create a company list based on numerous parameters
and filters. Industry content includes constituents and analysis that include RMA Industry Norms, MarketLine Industry Profiles, and Fredonia Focus reports.
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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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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.

Datasets from Wharton Research Data Services including Bank Regulatory, Beta Suite by WRDS, Blockholders, BoardEx, Bureau van Dijk, CBOE Indexes, Compustat – Capital, IQ, CRSP, DMEF Academic Data, Dow Jones, S&P Capital IQ Transcripts, Efficient Frontier by WRDS, Event Study by WRDS, Eventus, Fama French & Liquidity Factors, Federal Reserve Bank, Financial Ratios Suite by WRDS, IBES (I/B/E/S® earnings estimate aggregates), 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 Analytic, Research Quotient, SAS Visual Analytics, SEC Order Execution, Thomson Reuters, TRACE and World Indices by WRDS. Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD)

Use Policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of (name of database)." Output may not be used to ultimately benefit companies.

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.

Private and public U.S and international company data, industry news, facts and figures, hierarchy/corporate family tree data, executive contact information, and industry profiles. Additionally, Mergent Intellect allows users to build lists of companies based on location, industry, size, etc.