Data Research: MBA

Finding Data

Prepared for Dr. KozupPresented by Dan Overfield / Linda Hauck

Falvey’s New Look

VuFind

Subject Pages

Finance

Databases A-Z

• Resources can be found on both the subject page for the topic as well under the complete A-Z list.

Company Data

• Public US Data: Mergent, Market Insight, Valueline, Morningstar, WRDS, Lexis-Nexis.

• Private data: Lexis/Nexis, MarketLine, Census, Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios.

Census

• You can isolate firms by industry code and zip code to see estimated financial data.

• Company Statistics Program

BizMiner

Results Page.

Lexis Nexis

Marketline

Market Insight

Market Insight’s Stock Report for SHLD

Mergent

Morningstar

Valueline

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WRDS

• CRSP – Center for Research in Security Prices• The Center for Research in Security Prices, often known by its acronym CRSP, is a research

center at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. It maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, and mutual fund databases. It also provides CRSP/Compustat Merged Database, a database that simplifies matching COMPUSTAT financial data to the CRSP

security price data.

• Compustat – Global / North America• Compustat North America is a database of U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information

on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items.

Country Data

• EIU – Country reports, country profiles, and Market Indicators and Forecasts

• GMID – Global Market Information Database

• Global Insight

• Global Financial Data

Economist Intelligence Unit

GMID

Global Insight – Start Search at Data Insight Web

Meaning!

Global Financial Data

Summary

• All Resources can be found in several places: – Library Website – Databases A-Z, Subject Pages (Finance,

Management, Marketing, Economics)

– Business Research Links (tagged as kozup_mba).