Kiplinger's Personal FinanceRelates to saving, investing, taxes, insurance, major purchases including homes, education, health, travel & more.
Analyst Reports
J.P. Morgan Research (ProQuest)This link opens in a new windowIncludes thousands of analyst reports covering over 3,000 global companies and all industries. The reports cover equities & company performance, global and regional economics and financial strategy, foreign exchange, commodities, liquidity and emerging markets.
Bloomberg Terminal [at Social Sciences Desk]This link opens in a new windowContains some analyst reports for a company. Type your company's ticker symbol, then hit the yellow EQUITY key, then type BRC and hit the green GO key.Bloomberg also contains analyst recommendations for companies. Type your company's ticker, then hit the yellow EQUITY key, then type ANR and hit the green GO key.
Value Line Investment Survey Standard EditionThe classic one-page analyst report. In print on the first floor. 1980-Current
EDGARFrom the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Includes annual reports, quarterly reports, balance sheet, income statement, security activity and analysis and much more
Capital IQThis link opens in a new windowFirst time: create "New User" at top right and use your byu.edu email. CapitalIQ contains detailed company financials. CapIQ is co-located with the Bloomberg terminal at the Social Sciences desk on level one of the library.
For academic, noncommercial use only.
PrivCoThis link opens in a new windowNo analyst reports in this database. Includes financials and key performance indicators for private companies.
Average Industry Financials & Ratios
Mergent Key Business Ratios (KBR)This link opens in a new windowKey Business Ratios on the Web (KBR) provides immediate online access to competitive benchmarking data. This powerful tool lets researchers examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&B's database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios (users choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios) for public and private companies in 800 lines of business.
BizMinerThis link opens in a new windowBizMiner is a leading online provider of industry financial analysis and market research.
For non-commercial use only.
BizMinerThis link opens in a new windowIncludes detailed industry financial analysis and industry market analysis needs.
Click on the Preqin Insights tab (second from the left) on the dashboard. Insights has two years worth of Preqin’s reports on private debt, VC, PE, and hedge funds with data.
Help Books
Financial Statement Analysis by Wallace DavidsonThis book presents financial statements as a set of dynamic instruments that can be used for accurate, relevant, and timely financial decisions. It focuses on the economic and financial conditions that cause statements to change and discover how businesses can manage liquidity, debt, and profitability. Plus, explore effect ratios, causal ratios, pro forma analysis, sustainable growth, and much more. Key topics covered include: valuation techniques, effect ratios, DuPont system for analyzing profitability, causal analysis. how to conduct a financial statement analysis, users of financial statements, forecasting sustainable growth, and bankruptcy prediction models.