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U.S. Public Company Financials

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Compact D/SEC. Bethesda, MD: Disclosure, 1986- . Monthly. (ASU owns 1989- .)
This database excerpts the directory and financial data from the annual reports, 10-K reports, and other documents required by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Over 10,000 companies are covered. Ten years of annual financial data plus 2 years of quarterly data are included whenever available. Current stock ownership information is listed for institutional investors, 5% owners, and insiders. In addition, any "Management Discussion" and/or "President's Letter" found in a company's most recent annual report will also be included. Items can be searched by company name, personal name, industry/product, topic, and almost any data element in the directory information and financial tables. The latest update is also available on the library web as Global Access, which makes it more accessible, but it does not offer the more specialized search capabilities needed by some.
Corporate Directory of U.S. Public Companies. San Mateo, CA: Walker's Western Research, 1991- . Annual. (ASU owns 1996- .)
Briefly profiles publicly-owned U.S. companies providing: general directory information; stock data; business description; SIC's; major subsidiaries; directors, officers, and owners; five years of sales, net income, and earnings per share; and current selected assets and liabilities, P/E ratio, and dividend. There are also indexes which cross reference the companies by director/officer, owner, SIC codes, subsidiary/parent, state and zip code, and stock exchange/ticker symbol.
EDGAR Filings. Bethesda, MD: Disclosure, 1994- . Daily.
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) is the result of the SEC mandating that U.S. public companies file certain reports, such as quarterly and 10K reports, electronically. All other reports not covered by these requirements, like annual reports to stockholders, may be submitted in print and/or electronically at the filer's discretion. Also foreign companies that report to the SEC are not required to file electronically but may do so if they choose. Note that the access to the EDGAR filings provided by Disclosure on Global Access offers search capabilities superior to those found at the free SEC web site for EDGAR and covers all years of the EDGAR archives instead of merely the last two. Paper copies of current annual reports for many Fortune 1000 and Arizona-based companies are available in Reserve by company name. Reports in Reserve can be identified by doing a title browse search with the company name in the ASU Library Catalog online. To obtain a copy of a company's most recent annual report, you may also write directly to the company, check the Internet for their company's web page, or try the Wall Street Research Network web site (see entry later in this subsection).
Market Guide: Select Over the Counter Stock Edition. Glen Head, NY: Market Guide Inc., [1984]- . Quarterly. (ASU owns 1988- . Latest year in Reference; earlier years in Journals.)
Investment service covering 800 companies from the Market Guide Database originally chosen for their significant investor interest, financial strength, high growth ratio, or high yields. Each company is given a one-page summary including financial ratios, 4-year income statement, and 2-year balance sheet.
Moody's Handbook of Common Stocks. New York: Moody's Investors Service, 1965- . Quarterly. (ASU owns 1970- . Latest year in Reference; earlier years in Journals.)
Provides basic business and financial information on more than 900 stocks. Includes price charts, statistics, business description, and recent developments.
Moody's Handbook of Nasdaq Stocks. New York: Moody's Investors Service, 1981- . Quarterly. (ASU owns 1985- . Latest Year in Reference; earlier years in Journals.)
Similar to the Handbook of Common Stocks above, this covers more than 560 common stocks traded over-the-counter (OTC) through the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) information network. It was formerly called Moody's Handbook of OTC Stocks though the coverage has always been only of NASDAQ over-the-counter companies.
Moody's Manuals (various titles). 16 vols. New York: Moody's Investors Service, 1909- . Annual. (ASU owns 1929- . Latest year in Reference; earlier years in Journals.)
Consists of several manuals each devoted to a type of company or industry grouping as indicated by their individual titles: Industrial, OTC, OTC Unlisted, Bank and Finance, Transportation, Public Utilities, Municipal and Government, and International (this last is on Table 10A). Use the separate Moody's Complete Corporate Index to identify the specific volume containing a certain company except for those in the Municipal and Government Manual. The information given for those companies having "full" coverage includes capital structure, brief corporate history, principal subsidiaries, business and properties, names of officers and directors, 7-year income and balance sheet statistics, long-term debt, number of stockholders and employees, and name of auditor. Recent news, interim reports, personnel changes, etc., can be found in a separate binder of semi-weekly News Reports corresponding to each manual.
SEC File Index. St. Petersburg, FL: Q-Data Corporation, 1978- . Irregular. (ASU owns 1978-1997.)
Indexes microfiche of annual reports, 10-K statements, etc. filed by publicly-traded companies in the U.S. from 1978 to 1997. Use EDGAR Filings (see entry earlier in this subsection) for 1994 reports to the present. For annual reports of NYSE- and ASE-traded companies from 1965 to 1971 (Corporate Annual Reports, HG 4050 .C67x HAYDEN MF) and for 10K statements from 1971 to 1982 (Disclosure Microform, HG 4028 .B2 D56x HAYDEN MF), only the company name is necessary since these are entirely different microfiche services that pre-date the SEC File. Request microfiche from all these services at the Microforms counter by number or company name as appropriate.
Standard Corporation Descriptions. 6 vols. New York: Standard & Poor's, 1915- . Semi-monthly. (ASU owns current only.)
Also called Corporation Records, this provides the same basic type of information as the Moody's Manuals above. The companies are arranged alphabetically within each issue and the issues are then filed chronologically. The yellow index at the front of each volume leads to the pages a company appears on. The page shown in bold print is where the main entry on a company will be found. The blue index leads from divisions, subsidiaries, etc., to the parent company. Updates to the information in the main volumes appear in the "Daily News" volume. Since superseded issues are not saved, older information must be obtained from other sources such as the Moody's Manuals. Available electronically through LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe in their "Company Financial Information" section as one of the report types but can only be searched by company name.
Standard & Poor's Stock Reports. New York: Standard & Poor's, 1973- . 10 times a year. (ASU owns 1974- . Latest 5 years in Reference with most recent ones on the table and older years on the shelves; earlier years in Journals.)
Brief (2-page) reports on over 4,600 public companies, organized alphabetically by company name. For each company, it provides basic income statement and balance sheet data, a business summary, important recent developments, total revenues, finances, common share earnings, dividend data, capitalization, and officers and directors. Prior to 1998, the reports were published in three separate parts one for each major exchange: New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, and the over-the-counter market.
Wall Street Research Network
Covers U.S. and Canadian public companies pulling together relevant web sources for each displayed as a selection menu organized under the categories: Company Links (corporate home page, SEC filing from various providers, and a search for additional links), Quotes (stock and options), Graphs/Charts (from QuickSource, Telescan, and others), Value Added Links (government, trade organization, and other industry links), News Center (press releases and newswires), Earnings Estimates (Zack's, I/B/E/S, and others), and Research (profiles by Reuters, S&P, and others). Also does mutual funds.

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