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Business e-Resources providing Company Financial Information

Restricted to SJU users Mergent Online - More Information

The Mergent Online service provides financials on over 11,000 US public companies and their real-time Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) filings. Financials for over 17,000 non-U.S. companies are included.

Restricted to SJU users Hoover's Online - More Information

The Hoover's database provides background and financials on thousands of U.S. companies.  

Restricted to SJU users Value Line Research Center - More Information

The Value Line Research Center provides online access to their major investment py, which covers 1,700 equity issues, the Value Line Investment Sublications, including The Value Line Investment Surveurvey - Small & Mid-Cap edition (an additional 1,800 issues), and the Mutual Fund Survey. It is searchable by company name or ticker symbol.  

Restricted to SJU users Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage - More Information  

Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor’s research products including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, CreditWeek Focus, Mutual Fund Reports, and Securities Dealers of North America. To search for information on a company by name or ticker symbol, use the Publication Search tool, which is found both on the home page and the Companies main page. If you would like to identify a group of companies that meet a set of common criteria, you can use the Advanced Search tools located on the Companies main page. To access the Companies main page, click on the Companies tab at the top of the site.  

Restricted to SJU users Morningstar Library Edition - Mutual Funds/Stocks - More Information (provided by SJU's HSB)

Morningstar Library Edition provides comprehensive information on mutual funds and publicly-owned companies that trade stock on major U. S. stock exchanges. Information includes financial data and analysts’ reports. 

There are 3 ways to access Morningstar information:

  1. Screeners: Zero in on stocks and funds that will boost the value of your portfolio by screening more than 18,000 stocks and funds using dozens of criteria.
  2. Reports: Morningstar analysts' independent opinions on 1,700 stocks and 2,000 funds.
  3. Portfolio X-Ray:  View how a set of holdings can work together as a portfolio.
Morningstar.com Library Edition includes:
  • 16,000+ mutual funds
  • 150+ ETFs (exchange traded funds)
  • 6,000+ stocks from NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges
  • 250 screenable fund datapoints
  • 450 screenable stock datapoints
  • 2,000 Fund Analyst Reports
  • 1,500+ Stock Analyst Reports
Updated continuously throughout the day.
Restricted to SJU users WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) - Financial data - More Information (provided by SJU's HSB)

NO off-campus access.
Accessible on-campus only in Mandeville Hall (Haub School of Business) and Drexel Library.

A comprehensive web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources.

WRDS at Saint Joseph's University includes access to the following:

  • COMPUSTAT (Standard & Poor's):  provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 24,000 publicly held companies. The COMPUSTAT databases on WRDS include Industrial, Full Coverage, Research; Prices, Dividends & Earnings; Segments; Bank; Canadian; Global Vantage; and EXECUCOMP.
  • CRSP:  The Center for Research in Security Prices maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolio, treasury bond and risk-free rates, and mutual fund databases.
  • CRSP/CMPST Merged Database:  CRSP also provides CRSP/COMPUSTAT Merged Database, a database that simplifies matching COMPUSTAT financial data to the CRSP security price data.
  • NYSE Trade & Quote (TAQ):  The Trade and Quote database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and Small Cap issues.
Restricted to SJU users LexisNexis® Academic - More Information

The "Company Financial" collection (in Business) includes information on public, private, and international businesses, the NAARS collection of archived corporate annual reports, Disclosure Reports, Bankruptcy Reports, and Security Ownership Reports.


Business
e-Resources including articles on Finance (listed in A-Z order)

Restricted to SJU users Business Source Premier - More Information
  Use the Business Source Premier thesaurus to find and focus your topic.Business Source Premier includes Datamonitor company profiles; detailed reports for 10,000 of the largest companies in the world (click on the green "Company Profiles" button across the top of the screen).
Restricted to SJU users ABI/INFORM Global - More Information
  In-depth coverage for business conditions, trend, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of other topics. Use the Topic Guide to locate specific topics within finance. 

 

Multi-Subject e-Resources including articles on Finance (listed in A-Z order)

Restricted to SJU users Academic Search Premier - More Information
Restricted to SJU users EconLit - More Information
Restricted to SJU users JSTOR - More Information
Restricted to SJU users LexisNexis® Academic - More Information
  For Finance topics search the "News" and "Business" areas.  
Restricted to SJU users ProQuest Research Library - More Information
  The Business Module covers subjects such as accounting, finance, economics, personal finance, marketing, and management. 
 

e-Resources for discipines related to Finance (listed in A-Z order)

 
 
FRED II - Federal Reserve Economic Data - More Information
 
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Newspaper e-Resources (listed in A-Z order)

Restricted to SJU users LexisNexis Academic - More Information
  On the "Guided News Search" screen, select a "News Category" from the drop-down list (ex. US News') as well as a "News Source" from the drop-down list (ex. 'Northeast Regional Sources' or 'Pennsylvania News Sources'). Finally, "Select a Date" ---the default is usually 6 months.
Restricted to SJU users New York Times - More Information
Restricted to SJU users Newspaper Source - More Information
Restricted to SJU users The Philadelphia Inquirer - More Information
Restricted to SJU users Wall Street Journal - More Information
   
 

Cynthia H. Slater
Business Reference Librarian
Saint Joseph's University
Last revision / review:  May 1, 2008
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