Finding Company Information

Example Questions That Can Be Answered Using This FARQ

• How much money did Yahoo make last year?
• Who’s the president of Xerox?

• Hoover’s, a company that also publishes print directories of company information, is the best source we have found for getting company information online. Hoover’s online service provides many free profiles that include history, current status, products and services, staff information, and financials. To access all of the available profiles, however, you must sign up for a subscription, for which there is a fee.
• Wall Street Research Net’s Company Research site offers easy access to a range of information (some, but not all, requiring a fee to access) about U.S. and Canadian companies. A "Key Links" section offers SEC filings, statistics, earnings estimates, and much more. A "News Headlines" section offers links to company news from a number of online news sources.
• Finally, company researchers may also want to consult the Yahoo! Finance Company and Fund Index which offers "company profiles from Market Guide, who provides users with information on over 9,000 public companies, including contact information, business summaries, officer and employeee information, sector and industry classifications, business and earnings announcement summaries, and financial statistics and ratios. Yahoo adds stock charts based on historical data from Commodity Systems, Inc. (CSI), and links to other resources."

To find company information offline, try looking at Hoover’s print directories, plus Standard and Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Top 500 Companies, and ask your public librarian about other sources of company information.