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Stock Market & Financial Info
Employer financial reports, including stock market indicators and annual reports, can help you determine how healthy this organization is, how have they performed in the past, and where are they planning or expected to go in the future. For more employer information, check out Business & Employer Research.
- Bloomberg Personal Finance
- ...check the markets, get stock quotes, check the latest headlines in business, technology, and sports (a big financial market, I guess). You can review a lot of info here.
- Stockopedia
- London-based information resource and research network offering free news, data and research on all companies listed on the stock market in the United Kingdom, searchable by company name, ticker or investing topic. There are some areas limited to registered users, but registration is free.
- 123Jump.com
- ...nice source of news, research, and reviews of stock and financial transactions. Their commentary area is really great.
- Moody's Investor's Services
- Headline news on the latest financial situations.
- FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Information on Regulation (was NASD)
- ...includes investor education, recent enforcement actions, and more. You can also check the background of your securities firm or an individual broker within that firm using the FINRA BrokerCheck.
- NASDAQ and The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
- ...quick quotes, links to investor information
- The Online Investor
- ..."Your guide to educated investment decisions." This site is a little different in that it provide information on upcoming Mergers and Buyouts, Stocksplits, and Buybacks.
- PC Quote
- ...stock prices on a 20 minute delay
- Reuters Stock News
- ...nice news and info source.
- Standard & Poor's
- Several services and updated news from S&P.
- Yahoo! Finance
- ...daily news, profiles, and quotes for thousands of companies along with links to their homepages. Arranged alphabetically by company name.
- Our 10-K Cheat Sheet: How to Speed Read a Company's Annual Report, Kathy Kristof (Kiplinger.com)
- Researching a potential employer? Contemplating a job offer? This short article can help you find those tidbits of financial info and potential red flags hidden in annual reports and 10-Ks. The article is intended for investors, but there are no bigger investors in any company than the employees.
- BankruptcyData.com
- ...an online bankruptcy reference source. The database contains information on publicly traded companies with total assets of at least $10 million. You can search for companies that have filed, and if you see one in which you are interested, you can buy the reports. They also offer the The Troubled Company Prospector, a weekly newsletter identifying and profiling companies showing early signs of financial strain or difficulty. You can review the list of Recent Filings and New Plan Summaries for free (just the lists, the full reports will cost you). If you are prospecting a company who appears in their database, investing in some of the reports may be wise. A service of New Generation Research in Boston.
- Corporate Financials Online
- ...direct links to news from publicly traded companies.
EDGAR, the SEC's Database of Corporate Filings
- ... searchable database of 10K and other reports from the Securities and Exchange Commission. As someone explained to me, "10-K reports filed with the SEC usually have more hard data, but annual reports are formatted better, and have pictures."
- FreeEDGAR
- ...offering the individual user "easy, basic access to SEC EDGAR filings." Registration is required and relatively simple. If you need more in-depth access, you will want to subscribe to EDGR: Edgar Online.
- Company Financials and Annual Reports, RBA Information Services
- This page links to numerous international resources (some fee, many free) for researching company filings and finances. RBA (Rhodes-Blakeman Associates) was set up in 1989 by Karen Blakeman to provide training and advice on the use of technology for accessing and managing information. This page is updated on a regular basis, so the resources are current and active.
- IPO Central from Hoovers.
- ...practically anything and everything you wanted to know about this market, including the major underwriters, who filed this week, and pricing. You can also search IPOs by company name, industry, and region, or scan them alphabetically or chronologically. This is a product of Hoover's, the respected publisher of business almanacs, so the information is guaranteed to be good!
- IPO's from Edgar Online
- ...headlines, latest pricings and filings, upcoming pricings, and Quiet Period / Lockup Period Expirations. They also list withdrawls and postponements and include a listing of International IPOs.
- Wall Street Journal Company Spotlight
- ... freely available at the click of a button. You can review the list of available report by company name or ticker, industry sector, location (region), or exchange. Yes, this is an international list.
- Annual Reports.com
- ... review HTML or PDF copies of publicly available corporate annual reports along with some 10K reports filed with the SEC. Search for companies by name or ticker symbol, or review lists of companies by exchange (AmEx, NASDAQ, NYSE, etc.), industry, or sector.
- Public Register's Annual Report Service
- ..."When selecting a company, you will have the choice to view the online annual or to request hard copy. If at present a hard copy annual report is unavailable, click on "Same Industry Annual Reports" to view a list of companies offering hard copy annual reports within the same industry. "
- More ideas for locating annual reports
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- 10K reports from EDGAR. See the description above
- Search engines like Bing, Ask, or Google. Search on the company or organization's name and the word "annual" or the phrase "annual report" to target in on this information.
- The Company's Web Page. Many companies are putting these documents on their web sites. Look under categories like "About Us," "Publications," "Financials," or "News."
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