Research Guides: MET315 Engineering Economics (Neuhard): Pg. 1 Describe the Company

Company Background

For page 1, describe the company: What it makes/does, employees, plants, plant location, sales volume, etc. Use the resources on this tab to help you find this information.

Top Resources

Search for Company Information

Click on the Menu option at the top of the main Nexis Uni page and choose Company Dossier
Search by company name or ticker symbol and click Search
A Snapshot of your company is displayed
Select from the options along the left-hand side menu for more information, including news, financials, etc.

Value Line Library Elite
Value Line provides a wealth of in-depth financial information, including compendium of current and historical market and financial data spanning thousands of U.S. companies, mutual funds and other securities, industry sectors, indices and economic variables, the Timeliness™ ranking system—an “at-a-glance” prognosticator of 6-12 month relative price performance for approximately 1,700 actively traded U.S. stocks, ranging from 1 (highest) to 5 (lowest), plus commentary and insights on companies, industries, markets and the economy.

Search for Company Information

Under the BROWSE RESEARCH tab, Enter the ticker, company, or industry name and click on the suggested name that populates
Click on PDF Reports and select a date to view a detailed report

Business Market Research Collection
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance from a network of 1,000 faculty members at Oxford, other leading universities, and think-tanks; Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.

Search for Company Information

Click on Advanced Search and change the drop-down box from Anywhere to Ticker symbol - TKS
Enter your company's ticker symbol in the search box and click Search
If your company is found, click on the your company's name to open the report.

International Directory of Company Histories by Gale (Editor)
Call Number: REF HD2721 .I63 v.1-date
ISBN: 9781558628274
This multi-volume work is the first major reference to bring together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. The Madigan Library has these volumes in print in the Reference Collection as well as available electronically through the link below to Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Gale eBooks
Full-text articles from multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Most subjects are covered.

Search for International Directory of Company Histories

In GVRL, enter the name of your company in the search box
After you see your list of results, look along the right-hand menu and look for the heading Publication Title
Find the title International Directory of Company Histories and click on it
You should now see results that are only within this publication. You can use the titles of the articles to look for an overview of your company, or you can use the heading Subjects along the right to see if your company is listed there
If you find an overview of your company, click on the PDF link to view the article.

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Search for information on your company:

Click on Company Investigator
Under Other Business Reports click on Hoover's Company Profiles
Search by company name or ticker symbol
Scroll down the page to the find the company overview and history of the company

Google Finance
Business information, news and interactive charts
Investopedia
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Yahoo! Finance: Industry Center
A rich source of financial information with company profiles, SEC filings, annual reports, stock quotes, news, analysis, industry statistics and news, and information for investors. Historical quotes for stocks, bonds, and money markets are since 1970 and give daily, weekly, and monthly closing prices and dividends. Also see "Industry Browser" under "Tools" which allows you to browse industries by performance rankings, including ROE, P/E ratio, market cap, price change, price to book value, profit margin, price to book value, long term debt, and more. Enter your company symbol and click "View Industry".