LibGuides: Business Databases by Category: Companies

Company Profiles

Capital IQ
Find company profiles and financial data for U.S. and international public and private companies, investment firms, and hedge funds. Covers key developments, relationships among firms and people, biographical and contact data, M&A transactions including IPOs, venture capital/private equity data, and regulatory filings.

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New users can register for an account by following the New User? link on the screen.
D&B Hoovers
Lists public, private, and nonprofit global companies that can be searched using a set of criteria and downloaded. Company profile includes news, corporate overviews, financial data, market research reports, analyst reports, executive biographies, SWOT analysis, significant developments, strategic initiatives, industry norms, and market share.
EMIS Professional (formerly ISI Emerging Markets)
Information about emerging market countries, their companies, and industries. Coverage includes countries from Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia-Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Middle East.
Orbis
Contains information on public and private companies worldwide. It can be used to research individual companies, or to screen for companies meeting certain financial, geographic or operating criteria.

Create list of companies

Use these resources to compile a list of companies based on specific criteria such as industry, geographic location, number of employees, and annual revenue.

Capital IQ
Screen for U.S. and international companies by financials, M&A transactions, industries, people, investment style and more.

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New users can register for an account by following the link on the screen. Also available on workstations 2 and 3 in Dewey Library.
D&B Hoovers
Lists public, private, and nonprofit global companies that can be searched using a set of criteria and downloaded. Company profile includes news, corporate overviews, financial data, market research reports, analyst reports, executive biographies, SWOT analysis, significant developments, strategic initiatives, industry norms, and market share.
EMIS Professional (formerly ISI Emerging Markets)
Information about emerging market countries, their companies, and industries. Coverage includes countries from Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia-Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Middle East.
LexisNexis Academic (now Nexis Uni)
Lexis Nexis Academic provides access to the full-text of many news, business, and legal resources, including the New York Times. Create a company list using Dossier from "search by subject or topic" dropdown. Limit your search to companies within a specific industry, geographic area, or that meet a certain financial criteria. All results can be downloaded onto a spreadsheet.
Orbis
Contains information on public and private companies worldwide. It can be used to research individual companies, or to screen for companies meeting certain financial, geographic or operating criteria.
ReferenceUSA
Covers millions of U.S. businesses, consumers, commercial and residential phone listings, financials and filings. Can be searched using multiple criteria and results downloaded into spreadsheet.
ReferenceUSA Historical Data Files
Historic company records. Created annually from Infogroup’s U.S. Business Database; a snapshot of the data is saved each December. Contains company name, mailing address, SIC and NAICS codes, employee size, sales volume, latitude/longitude, and many more variables about each company. Coverage is from 1997-

Comprehensive Financials: U.S. & Foreign

Amadeus (via WRDS)
A database from Bureau van Dijk containing financial statement data as well as basic company and management information for public and private companies in Europe.
Compustat Global (via WRDS)
Compustat Global provides detailed fundamental data for major companies trading on international exchanges.

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Special files are available that contain financial services data, currency translations, and market data. Annual data date back to 1987 .
Compustat North America (via WRDS)
Use to find detailed fundamental data for companies trading on all of the major United States and Canadian exchanges. Coverage goes back to 1950.

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Special files are available that contain bank specific data. There is also industry specific data for airlines, gaming, homebuilding, health care facilities, lodging, managed health care (HMOs), mining, oil & gas, retail, semiconductors, and utilities.
Orbis
Contains information on public and private companies worldwide.
Oriana
Provides access to public and private companies across the Asia-Pacific region. Use it to research a specific company or create target lists with comprehensive profiles covering company financials, directors, contacts, and more.
Worldscope (via WRDS)
Provides fundamental data for major international companies. 1980+.

History, chronology & affiliation

D&B Hoovers
In company profile, click on "corporate family" link on left navigation bar.
LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations
Click on Find on top of the database screen; then search and select Corporate Affiliations. Corporate Affiliations contains profile information and corporate linkage to the eighth level for public and private companies (including parent companies worldwide). Domestic companies usually demonstrate revenues in excess of $10 million, substantial assets/net worth, or a work force in excess of 300 persons while non-U.S. based companies usually demonstrate revenues in excess of $50 million.
Mergent WebReports
Historical information on public companies. Includes Industrial Manual 1920-, OTC Industrial Manual 1970-, OTC Unlisted Manual 1986-, Bank & Finance Manual 1928-, Public Utility Manual 1914-, Transportation Manual 1909-, International Manual 1981-. Also includes Municipal & Government Manual 1918-

M&A

Capital IQ
Provides data on M&A transactions, spin-offs, public offerings, private placements, equity buybacks, and bankruptcies. Covers both US and foreign companies.

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New users can register for an account by following the link on the screen. Also available on workstations 2 and 3 in Dewey Library.
Dealscan (via WRDS)
Source for information on the global commercial loan market. These transactions finance M&A activity, working capital needs and other general corporate purposes for loan participants world-wide. Dealscan sources include regulatory filings, bank submissions and journalist contributions.

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Dealscan records can be linked to Compustat using the Roberts Dealscan-Compustat Linking Database.
EMIS (formerly ISI Emerging Markets)
Current country and company information from hundreds of sources for emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. EMIS includes country profiles and financials; macroeconomic statistics, forecasts and analysis; reports, data and news on mergers and acquisitions, financial markets, companies, and industries.

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Includes analytic tools for company and industry comparisons. Allows creating a login to save personal settings.
Experian Corpfin
Experian Corpfin is a comprehensive source of European & U.S. corporate finance transactions. It is updated daily, dates back to 1993 and covers 28 different deal types. It includes an in-depth transaction report outlining the deal structure and pricing, advisor and investor details (including the appropriate office, role and team members where available).
GSI Online (via WRDS)
The Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) file covers change in control transactions as well as significant acquisitions or sale of assets, equity, subsidiaries or business divisions. The Registrations & Prospectus (R&P) file covers registration statements (and associated Prospectus if any) by companies making offerings of securities to the public.
SDC Platinum - Securities Data Company
During the COVID-19 closure, SDC can be accessed via Thomson One database. Click on Screening & Analysis tab and follow the Deals module. Note that Thomson One only works with Internet Explorer version 11 or higher.

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SDC is available in Dewey Library on Workstations 2-5. Our subscription includes the following components:
- VentureXpert:, covers venture capital firms, VC deals, executives, IPOs and mergers & acquisitions from 1970 onward. This data is also available through Thomson ONE as Private Equity module under Screening & Analysis.
- Merger and Acquisitions: data on global M&As, LBOs, spin-offs, privatization, and more., varied coverage from 1980 onward. Our subscription does not include joint venture and alliances, and repurchases.
- Global New Issues: data on global stock and debt offerings, including IPOs, private placements, syndicated loans and more.since 1970
- Project Finance: containing worldwide projects announced and financed on a limited or non-recourse basis since the early 1990s.
Note: There is a delay period of 30 days on the data in SDC.
Zephyr
Contains data on M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures and private equity deals with links to detailed financial company information. Coverage past January 2003 is global, with earlier coverage focusing on Europe.

Corporate governance & ownership

Conference Board Database
Reports and data on key issues in areas of corporate leadership, economy and business environment, and human capital including annual surveys on CEO succession practices, director compensation and board practices, US top executive compensation, job satisfaction, and sustainability matters . Economic datasets include historical data for key economic indicators.
Execucomp (via WRDS)
Top executives' salary, bonus, and stock option data since 1992 is available. The database also has company-specific financial statement information to supplement the compensation data.
ISS (formerly RiskMetrics)
Covering S&P 1500 companies, ISS provides data on: Directors: range of variables related to individual board directors (e.g., name, age, tenure, gender, committee memberships, primary employer and title, etc. from 1996+ Governance: information on takeover defense and other corporate governance provisions. Coverage is from 1990+
MSCI ESG KLD Stats (via WRDS)
Annual data set of positive and negative environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance indicators applied to a universe of publicly traded companies. Coverage: 1991+
MSCI GMI Ratings (via WRDS)
Annual historical data for each proxy year beginning in 2001. Information includes: corporate board structure and independence , director positions and committee assignments, executive and director compensation, audit fees, corporate ownership, and takeover defenses.

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Includes over 2,100 U.S. companies and over 38,000 directors. Formerly known as Board Analyst.
Thomson Reuters Ownership Datasets (via WRDS)
Formerly called CDA Spectrum, Thomson Reuters Ownership datasets consists of 3 parts:

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(1) mutual fund holdings 1980+ for US & Canadian Securities: All registered mutual funds filing with the SEC plus 3,000 global funds. Includes NYSE/AMEX/NASDAQ, Toronto and Montreal common stocks; (2) institutional 13(f) common stock holdings and transactions 1980+; (3) insider filing data 1986+ divided into the following major parts: (a) Table 1 -- transaction and holdings information, (b) Table 2 -- open market derivatives transactions as well as information on the award, exercise, and expiration of stock options (this files starts in 1996), (c) Proposed Sale data derived from Form 144 (this file starts in 1996), (d) Average Returns file contains the information relating to how a stock has historically performed following an insider's transactions. The file includes average 3-month and 6-month buy and sell returns as well as the number of historic buy and sell decisions for each individual insider.

Venture capital & private equity

PitchBook
Private equity and venture capital database with in depth information and statistics on firms, funds, deals, investors, portfolio companies, and key executives. Use MIT VPN (cisco AnyConnect) if registering for an account remotely.
Preqin
Preqin offers comprehensive global research on investment industry. Our subscription includes Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Natural Resources, and Hedge Funds modules which offer detailed information and analytics on firms, funds, deals, and portfolio companies.

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Please use MIT VPN for remote access.
VentureXpert via Thomson One
Select Screening & Analysis. Expand Private Equity and select Companies & Investors or one of the other options. Thomson ONE works with Internet Explorer only. If using Microsoft Edge, click on three dots (...) on top right, to access Internet Explorer. IE versions 10 or higher may require running the database in compatibility view.

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To do so, open Thomson ONE database, select Tools from IE menu and then click on Compatibility View Settings. Add thomsonone.com to the compatibility view list and close the window. The site will automatically reload to run in compatibility mode.
Zephyr
Contains data on M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures and private equity deals with links to detailed financial company information. Coverage past January 2003 is global, with earlier coverage focusing on Europe.