Company Profiles
Company profiles provide succinct historical overviews of a firm and their current business segments. Typically they identify current, but not historical, top management and competitors as well.
MarketLine Company Profiles (EBSCO)
Offers detailed reports on U.S. and foreign companies in a wide range of industries. These reports provide a description of the business, company history, key personnel, products, services, and competitors. MarketLine Industry Reports are available from the D&B Global Business Browser database.
Mergent Online Limitations on Use
Provides detailed financial statements for U.S. and international public and private companies, including SEC filings and current and historical annual reports for U.S. and international public companies. Data can be downloaded in a variety of formats. Also includes country profiles.
Access limited to 4 simultaneous users.
D&B Hoovers
Offers public and private company and industry information including company profiles, market research reports from Marketline, Freedonia, Euromonitor, and RMA updated with recent news, executive profiles, and analyst reports.
Top Management Team Demographics
The current officers & some biographical information will be included in company profiles. To identify top management teams over a five or ten year span you will need to do some retrospective research. Demographic information about executives can typically for age, education, prior positions, compensation, gender, marital status and board appointments.
Mergent Online has biographical reports for both active and inactive executives. Choose the Executives, Officers tabs and check Display Inactive and download pdf profiles.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) Limitations on Use Access Instructions
Expand COMPUSTAT, expand Capital IQ People Intelligence, Search by ticker symbol for either Professional or Compensation.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized users (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova students and faculty.
Access and registration approved by rdavid.ratigan@villanova.edu of the Gmelich Lab for Financial Markets. You will need to get the DUO security app for 2 factor authentication.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's Capital IQ)
Offers market information, company quotes, equity index information, industry information (including the S&P Industry Surveys), and economic data.
Morningstar Investing Center
For verified biographies of key current officers, choose the insiders tab.
Officers Statements on Strategy
An understanding of a firms strategic direction can be identified in officers statements, inferred from company actions, or gleaned from secondary sources such as analyst reports, company news reported in the press or company profiles.
Corporate investor relations pages often provide links to presentations or transcripts of speaches.
SEC filings including the glossy annual report, 10K for domestic companies and 20-F for foreign filers typically include management discussion shedding light on strategy. SEC filings can be found on EDGAR SEC or by linking through from Mergent, or Morningstar or ReferenceUSA Onesource
Fair Disclosure Wire provides access to conference calls, where officers present results and field questions from analysts. Do an advanced search, type the target company name on the second line and use the subject drop down.
Seeking Alpha also provides links to transcripts of conference calls.
ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
Provides access to scholarly journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, and country- and industry-focused reports.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Provides access to a wide range of academic business journals and trade magazines. Topics include management, marketing, finance, economics, and management information systems. Full text access may be embargoed for up to three years. Coverage goes back to 1965.
Philadelphia Business Journal (American City Business Journals) Limitations on Use Access Instructions
Offers full text access to the Philadelphia Business Journal and their Book of Lists
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Register with your Villanova email address and create a password. Accounts will be purged from time to time. When they are, reregistration will be needed. After registration you may get the mobile app for access.
D&B Hoovers
Offers public and private company and industry information including company profiles, market research reports from Marketline, Freedonia, Euromonitor, and RMA updated with recent news, executive profiles, and analyst reports.
Morningstar Investing Center
Contains information on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. Provides independent analysis, industry information, stock charts, portfolio building tools, and web-based educational tutorials.
Congressional Publications (ProQuest)
Provides comprehensive indexing of United States legislative information: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws, congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code. Includes abstracts. Some of the indexing goes back to the late 18th century.
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