Library: Management: Companies

Find company information

We have a wide range of company and financial databases to help you research businesses in the UK and around the world. Most of the databases have useful guides and videos to help you to get started. The databases are grouped by type in this guide, but you can also see the A-Z of all Library databases.

D&B Hoovers
Provided by Dunn and Bradstreet, this is a user-friendly source of information on 120 million companies.

It offers financial and executive details plus a description of activities and competitors of public, private, and government-run enterprises. Graphs and charts allow users to quickly view and understand company trends and compare with competitors. It includes up to 10 years of historical financials, downloadable family trees, SWOT analyses and business triggers and signals (to spot business opportunities.)

Hoovers User Guide

EMIS
An emerging markets platform providing company, country and industry intelligence. It includes 9,000 local news sources, private/public company data, industry reports from global and local providers and complex analytical tools to monitor, screen and analyse trends, risks and forecasts.

Features reports from Euromonitor, Mintel, BMI, Economist Intelligence Unit, Marketline, S&P, Oxford Economics and D&B.
• Companies: 4.9 million private and public emerging market company profiles.
• Industries: EMIS covers 250 different industries throughout the emerging markets.
• Countries: Data covers 125 emerging markets.
• M&A: more than 139,000 M&A deals along with proprietary research, valuations and forecasts.
MarketLine
World-wide industry reports, news and analysis, company and country profiles, Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE and SWOT analyses.

Marketline includes these additional databases:
• City Statistics
Analyse and compare the world’s most important cities. Features comprehensive data and forecasts of key socio and macroeconomic indicators for more than 3000 cities, spread across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, North America, and South and Central America.
• Company Prospector
Screen 102,959 companies and build lists of potential business partners, clients, and investment targets in industries and countries of interest.
• Company Report Generator
Generate fresh custom company reports featuring analytical text and charts which draw on MarketLine's company datasets. Example sections include company overview, history, SWOT analysis, M&A, partnerships and agreements, news and product information.
• Country Statistics
Conduct quick and easy comparative analysis of macroeconomic and industry drivers for over 200 countries. Features comprehensive data and forecasts including detailed coverage of consumer demographics, incomes, and expenditures. Key indicator forecasts include GDP, inflation, exchange rates, investment, trade, population, and labour market.
• Financial Deals Tracker
Track market activity with MarketLine's database of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity deals, venture finance deals, private placements, IPOs, and partnerships.
• Investment and Advisory Prospector
Identify advisory and investment firms operating in specific industries, and gain insight into the investment and inorganic strategy of companies.
• Market Data Analytics
A unique online information service providing comprehensive data across global food, drinks personal care household products, pet care, news and magazine and tobacco markets.

Marketline Guide
Mergent Online
Mergent Online offers global company financials, descriptions, history, subsidiaries, officers and directors. Powerful intuitive search capabilities combined with an easy to use interface, access to risk ratings, credit information and recommendations. Includes Investext reports.
Mergent Online Guide

Nexis
Nexis provides access to international company information such as company directories, annual reports, market surveys, financial information and detailed company profiles for a range of countries and regions of the world.

News coverage includes the Financial Times from 1982 with a 30 day embargo. Note that the FT is not in the UK newspapers group search (filter) in the Power Search.

Osiris
Contains up to 30 years of detailed, standardised, financial accounts and ratings of listed companies, banks and insurance companies from 140 countries.

The information includes income statements, balance sheets, cash-flow statements, stock data and ratios. It is an ideal tool for comparison and analysis, including peer and statistical analyses and time series searching.

Passport
Passport (from Euromonitor) provides concise profiles of leading companies and brand and market share data.

• Countries: profiles (demographic, economic, political) and business dynamics
reports including SWOT analyses.
• Companies: profiles, market share and brand share rankings.
• Lifestyle statistics: reports on 76 countries detailing consumer habits and lifestyles.
• Updated analysis: daily industry and country news.
• Statistics: international macro-economic and demographic data.

FAME
Contains up to 20 years of financial information on private and public companies in UK and Ireland, and includes profiles, directors, subsidiaries and detailed financials.

Companies are ranked within peer groups and searchable by region and activity. Results are presented as graphs and downloadable to Excel.

CSMAR (web version)
CSMAR is a comprehensive database of China’s stock returns, covering all companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock exchange. Access data on the China stock markets and the financial statements of China’s listed companies.

● 15 types of changes in shares outstanding, including IPO, listing of seasoned new issue and listing of re-allotment shares
● Financial statements (quarterly, semi-annually, annually)
● Stock market trading (daily and monthly return, shares outstanding)
● Closed-end fund and open-end fund
● Corporate Governance
● Mergers and Acquisitions
● Initial Public Offering
● Shareholders’ Research
● Coverage from 1990

S&P Global Market Intelligence (formerly SNL FIG)
A comprehensive database of financial data, news and analytics for banking and insurance companies globally. Includes sovereign macroeconomic, risk and ratings data.

Both staff and students are welcome to use the helpdesk provided by SNL FIG. Link to the help section using the ? in the top right hand side of the database. Follow the links to 'email questions' and see the telephone number for immediate help.

Webinar: Introduction to the SNL Fig Market Intelligence Platform (31:35)
Webinar recorded by Chris Vanderpool from FIG Research.
Video: lecture capture of SNL FIG training (01:02:00)

Find financial information

Our specialised financial databases enable you to find current and historical financial data on companies and markets. Some require additional usernames and passwords so please refer to the help links which will provide you with the guidance you need. The databases are grouped by type in this guide, but you can also see the A-Z of all Library databases.

Datastream
Current and historical coverage of data for international companies dating back to the 1960s. It includes company accounts and ratios, equity and capital market data, interest and exchange rate data, plus economic and industrial statistics.

Important: this is accessible only via specific computers with the correct software.

Datastream information and help

Thomson Reuters Eikon
An integrated news, content and analytic trading platform allowing you to monitor the markets and perform in-depth research.

Important: this is accessible only via specific computers with the correct software.

Eikon information and help

Morningstar Direct
This multi-currency investment analysis platform provides access to investments in indexes, equities, hedge funds, segregated accounts, open-end funds, closed-end funds, insurance/pension/life and exchange traded funds.

For each investment, there is information on performance, operations, portfolio holdings, and risk measurements. Download the desktop version to your personal laptop or PC for full functionality.

Videos and guides from Morningstar
Morningstar on your desktop
There is a desktop version that you can download to your personal Windows laptop.

Thomson One
Company data and global financial market news. WARNING: Thomson One only works with the Internet Explorer browser and it only functions fully in compatibility view mode with pop-up blocker turned off. In addition, the Investext reports only work if accessing Thomson One using UniDesk. For full instructions, see the link below to Thomson One Information and Help.

Includes Reuters Top News, Investext Analyst Reports, public company overviews, ownership, deals, private equity, key ratios, company filings and officers and directors. The Screening tools allow for detailed searching and analyses. Note: our access is restricted to 20 users at one time. You may see an error message explaining this if all 20 slots are in use.

Thomson One Information and help

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Provides access to a range of third party financial research data via a web interface. Our subscribed databases include the following: AuditAnalytics; BoardEx; Compustat; CRSP; CSMAR*; CUSIP; Daily TAQ; Eventus; LSPD; Markit; Mergent FISD; OptionMetrics IvyDB US and IvyDB Europe and Thomson-Reuters LPC DealScan.

You must register for access before you use WRDS: https://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/?register=1

*Note that CSMAR is available via WRDS (in a limited form) but that the online version of CSMAR provides access to the complete database.

You must register before you can use WRDS. Please note that the database is not available to undergraduates.

WRDS information and help

Investext reports on Mergent
Easy to use Investext reports.
Mergent Online Guide

Investext Reports on Thomson One
Active and historical research available from over 1,600 brokerages, investment banks and independent research firms around the globe (including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and J.P.Morgan). WARNING: Thomson One only works with the Internet Explorer browser and it only functions fully in compatibility view mode with pop-up blocker turned off. In addition, the Investext reports only work if accessing Thomson One using UniDesk. For full instructions, see the link below to Thomson One Information and Help.

Find the reports under the 'research' heading in the database or under the 'research reports' section of the Company Overview. Note: our access is restricted to 20 users at one time. You may see an error message explaining this if all 20 slots are in use.

Thomson One – M&A
Provides access to global financial market news and information including private equity and mergers and acquisitions. WARNING: Thomson One only works with the Internet Explorer browser and it only functions fully in compatibility view mode with pop-up blocker turned off. In addition, the Investext reports only work if accessing Thomson One using UniDesk. For full instructions, see the link below to Thomson One Information and Help.

It includes 55,000 global public company overviews, data on one million private global companies, Reuters News, ownership, deals, private equity, key ratios, company filings, and officers and directors. The Screening tools allow for detailed searching and analyses. Note: our access is restricted to 20 users at one time. You may see an error message explaining this if all 20 slots are in use.

Thomson ONE - private equity
Provides access to global financial market news and information including private equity and mergers and acquisitions. WARNING: Thomson One only works with the Internet Explorer browser and it only functions fully in compatibility view mode with pop-up blocker turned off. In addition, the Investext reports only work if accessing Thomson One using UniDesk. For full instructions, see the link below to Thomson One Information and Help.

It includes 55,000 global public company overviews, data on one million private global companies, Reuters News, ownership, deals, private equity, key ratios, company filings, and officers and directors. The Screening tools allow for detailed searching and analyses. Note: our access is restricted to 20 users at one time. You may see an error message explaining this if all 20 slots are in use.