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Description: Provides global detailed financial data for over 35,000 active and inactive companies. Contains business ratios, historical information, SEC filings and US annual reports for over 15,000 public U.S. companies, as well as international company data for approximately 17,000 companies, including international annual reports, FactSheets, and country information. U.S. Company Archives Data holds the full business descriptions, histories and financial statements for companies that were acquired, went bankrupt, liquidated or merged out of existence from 1996 onward. Also determine the 25 largest institutional holders for every U.S. company, as well as examine aggregate institutional buyers and sellers data. Search by company name or ticker symbol, or search across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria. Additional data include:

  • Experian National Business Private Company Database - contains information on over 4 million U.S. private businesses including: business address and key contact information; estimated number of employees as well as SIC industry codes; names of key executives; and estimated revenues.
  • Global Industry Reports - provides in-depth analysis of industries covering North America, Asia/Pacific and Europe by country and region. These reports describe the market environment and industry landscape for companies, industries, countries and regions as well as key trends and market outlook.
  • Mergent Equity Research Reports - Each two-page Mergent Equity Research Reports offers: buy, hold and sell recommendations for the company and for peer companies; price momentum ratings and chart; earnings summary and chart; analyst forecast summary and rating; price performance charts; 5-year charts of fiscal year fundamental data; business summary, prospects, recent developments and more.
The Historical Stock Prices database includes North American equities including all living and dead issues for:
  • NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ NMS & Small Cap from 7/28/1980
  • Regional exchanges from 7/28/1980
  • S&P 500 from 1/3/1972
  • OTC Bulletin Board issues from 8/30/1996
  • Listed U.S. Open End Mutual Funds from 11/24/1986
  • Listed Canadian securities from 5/17/1990
  • Indexes, indicators and exchange rates from 1/2/1900
Data fields:
    Price data
  • Daily composite open, high, low, close and volume for listed securities
  • NAV and offer for open end mutual funds
  • Average yield and days to maturity for open end
  • Money market funds
  • Daily closing bid/ask beginning 8/30/1996

    Non-price data

  • Short interest
  • Cash and stock dividends, splits, spin-offs
  • Indicated annual dividend
  • Shares outstanding
  • Earnings per share
  • Corporate actions
  • Name changes, identifier changes, mergers, acquisitions, delistings, liquidations, exchange changes, reclassifications, conversions/exchanges, suspensions
List of LC holdings for other editions / titles from Mergent (FIS & Moody's).

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s)
Business, Economics & Industry
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