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Databases for Company & Industry Research

IBISWorld
Find analysis and graphic display of market conditions and forecasts, supply chains, and competitor activity within an industry (Archives available on the far left of page.)
Business Source Complete
Find articles, company information (SWOT), company profiles, industry profiles, and market research reports. (Search using the Keyword box, Company Information search, or Company Profile search.)
Nexis Uni
Find company, industry, and country information. (Start your company search at the Business box and then click on Company Dossier.)
Mergent Intellect
Search for private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and more.
Mergent Online
Find business and financial information on U.S. and international companies, industry reports, annual reports, and EDGAR filings. (Start searching at the Company Search box.)
PrivCo
Find business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. (Begin searching in the search box at the top of the screen.)
Value Line Research Center
Find stock prices and investment information. (Use the Quote box in the top right-hand corner to begin your search.)
Statista
Statista is one of the leading statistics companies on the internet. With a team of over 200 statisticians, database experts, analysts, and editors, Statista provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
This database includes an AI powered tool. For more information see the Statista Research AI information page.

Article Databases

Business Source Complete
Comprehensive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.
Wall Street Journal
Online version of the Wall Street Journal available through ProQuest.
Nexis Uni
Full text coverage of general news, business, legal, government and other topics.
Regional Business News
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Richard K. Miller Market Research Handbooks

A list of all Richard K Miller Market Research Handbooks

Business Ratios

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Classification that replaced the Standard Industry Classification (SIC).

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
Industry classification still used by a number of publishers and organizations.

Key Business Ratios
Key Business Ratios provides access to competitive benchmarking data. Industry benchmarks are compiled from D&B's database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios (users choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios) for public and private companies in 800 lines of business. Contains industry balance sheet and income statement information along with ratios organized by SIC codes

Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
Provides financial ratios for 192 NAICS codes. Calculated from corporate IRS returns, tables are presented for corporations with net income and for corporations with and without net income. Trends for the previous ten years are also included. There is a three-year lag time from when information if gathered and when it is issued by the IRS.
Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios
Provides norms and ratios for more than eight hundred SIC codes. Included are assets and liabilities in dollars and as percentages. Ratios are provided for the upper quartile, median, and lower quartile.
RMA Annual Statement Studies
Current and historical data for 375 industries arranged by NAICS code. Indexes list the NAICS and SIC codes covered.

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