Corporate Profiles/Directories

Yahoo – Finance!
Produced in collaboration with Edgar Online, Market Guide, and Thomson Financial Solutions, this site provides an extensive company profile, income and balance statements, top institutional and mutual fund stock holders, stock quotes, recent insider trades, profiles of officers and directors including biographies, compensation and stock options, recent SEC filings, and contact information and links to corporate Web sites. While 33,502 companies and funds are in this database, detailed information is only available on slightly over 9,000.

Hoovers Online
Hoovers covers over 12 million global companies, both public and private, and over 300 industries. It provides a brief description of the company’s activities, its contact information, Web site, main officers, financial statements and annual sales, number of employees and top competitors. It also provides links to SEC filings and stock quotes, news from Knight-Ridder and other wire services, company press releases, headline news from Dow Jones (paid subscription required for full text) and political contribution data. Industry profiles provide a snapshot of the industry, a list of companies and related SIC codes. For $49.95/month, subscribers can get full profiles which also include a history of the company, its subsidiaries, affiliates, all major competitors, brand names, historic financial data and full board of directors.

Corporate Information
This site offers the ability to search multiple corporate directories such as Yahoo, Hoovers, Bloomberg, etc., simultaneously. It also provides company profiles and financial data from Wright Investors’ Services. Free registration is required to use the Wright profiles. Plus, it offers overviews of industries and links to industry-specific news stories and Web sites searchable by industry and country.