Research Guides: MET315 Engineering Economics (Neuhard): Comparisons

Compare Your Company to the Industry Using...

Compare to the Industry

Go to Browse Research, search for your company again, then go down the page to Industry Analysis where you can download/print a PDF of the industry

Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Worldwide business information including private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and the ability to access industry profiles.

Find Industry Details

Enter your company's name or ticker symbol and select the company from the drop down list
Under the Industry Details tab, click on the First Industry Research Reports listed by NAICS Codes and US SIC Codes

Investopedia
Investopedia offers an abundance of financial content, from articles, dictionary terms, tutorials and video, to frequently asked questions and exam prep quizzes.

Compare to the Industry

Enter your company's ticker symbol and click Get Quote
Click on the link to the specific industry you wish to compare underneath the daily quote

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".

Compare to the Industry

Zacks.com: Stock Research & Ratings
Enter your stock symbol and choose your company from the list of suggested companies.

Compare to the Industry

Enter your company's ticker symbol and choose it from the suggested companies
Along the left-hand side menu, click on Comparison to Industry under the Research heading

Compare Companies

Enter you company's name or ticker symbol and select it from the list of suggested companies
In the "Jump to" menu(4 bars) go to Analysis
To the right of Morningstar Analysis click on Competitors
You can select any of the Charts to see a visual comparison

Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Worldwide business information including private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and the ability to access industry profiles.

Compare Companies

Enter your company's name or ticker symbol and select the company from the drop down list
Select the Competitors List tab under Company Details
Browse the list of competitors

Compare Companies

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Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch, and Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.

Find Competitors

Click on Advanced Search and change the drop-down box from Anywhere to Ticker Symbol
Enter your company's ticker symbol in the search box and click Search
If your company is found, click on the business's name and it will open the company's report
Search the document using Control+f search feature to search for competitors by name or by searching "competitor"

Compare Companies

Enter the company name or ticker symbol in the search box and choose the company from the list suggested
Go down to Industry Analysis and click on Read more
In the pop-up window, you get the industry analysis as well as a visual that includes other companies in the industry; mouse-over each to see the relative strength (ratio of the company to the industry), and click on the link to view a list of companies within that industry

You can also export a list of competitors

Enter the company name or ticker symbol in the search box and choose the company from the list suggested
Go down to Peers and click on Table
Click the small square in the top right corner of the Peers box for an expanded view of the competitor list
Click Download in the top right corner and choose to Export .CSV Format or Export to Excel