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.New users can register for an account by following the New User? link on the screen. Login to MIT VPN first if registering for an account remotely .
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.
LSEG Workspace
LSEG Workspace, formerly Refinitiv Workspace (RWS) provides information on public & private global companies and includes: financials and filings, news & corporate events, earnings estimates, price quotes, M&A transactions, PE/VC data, ESG ratings and analyst reports. Screen and analyze companies, deals/league tables, PE/VC firms, funds and portfolio companies, mergers and acquisition deals, and more.
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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. Available to full-time faculty, students, and staff only.

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 New User? link on the screen. Login to MIT VPN first if registering for an account remotely .
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.
Data Axle (formerly Reference USA)
Directory information on U.S. and Canadian business, health care, and residential listings. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. In addition to address and phone number, each entry includes officer names and titles, corporate affiliation, business type and size of yellow page advertising. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.
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. Available to full-time faculty, students, and staff only.
Prowessdx
Prowessdx provides financial data for public and private Indian companies, going back to 1989. Coverage includes detailed financial statements, and data on ownership and governance, stock price, and mergers & acquisitions. Click on Register below the Login prompt to create an account. If you already have a CMIE account (for States of India), your username and password should allow access.
LSEG Workspace
LSEG Workspace, formerly Refinitiv Workspace (RWS) provides information on public & private global companies and includes: financials and filings, news & corporate events, earnings estimates, price quotes, M&A transactions, PE/VC data, ESG ratings and analyst reports. Screen and analyze companies, deals/league tables, PE/VC firms, funds and portfolio companies, mergers and acquisition deals, and more.
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Comprehensive Financials: U.S. & Foreign

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. Available to full-time faculty, students, and staff only.
Prowessdx
Prowessdx provides financial data for public and private Indian companies, going back to 1989. Coverage includes detailed financial statements, and data on ownership and governance, stock price, and mergers & acquisitions. Click on Register below the Login prompt to create an account. If you already have a CMIE account (for States of India), your username and password should allow access.
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.
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-

Earnings and conference call transcripts

Capital IQ
Search by company name or ticker and then follow the CIQ estimates link on the left navigation bar. for data on consensus earnings, guidance, surprises, trends and revisions.New users can register for an account by following the New User? link on the screen. Login to MIT VPN first if registering for an account remotely .
Capital IQ Transcripts (via WRDS)
Current and historical transcripts of public companies' events, such as earnings and M&A calls, company conference presentations, and shareholder/analysts calls. Update Quarterly. Coverage: 2002-
Factiva
Conference call transcripts are available in Factiva, usually within two days of publication from Fair Disclosure. Coverage goes back to January 2002.
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In the search box, enter the following search statement: SN=Fair Disclosure AND HD=company name.
For example, SN=Fair Disclosure AND HD=Cisco would retrieve all mentions of Cisco in the headline of conference calls.
I/B/E/S (via WRDS)
The Institutional Brokers Estimates System provides consensus and detail forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations. U.S. data begins in 1976 and international data begins in 1987. Both detail and consensus data is available. In 2000, I/B/E/S data was integrated with Thomson Reuter's First Call and in 2012, First Call was discontinued. I/B/E/S Guidance includes company-issued guidance data from more than 6,000 North American companies and 2,000 global companies.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis)
FD (Fair Disclosure) Wire provides transcripts to Nexis Uni. The FD Wire coverage began April 2001. Some calls will have an event brief analyzing the earnings and summarizing the call.
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Click on Advanced Search. In the Source box, enter Fair Disclosure Wire in the Source box and in the search box enter: company name and select Title from the drop-down menu next to the search box.
LSEG Workspace
LSEG Workspace is the new name for Refinitiv Workspace. To find conference call transcripts, go to Advanced Search under the Research tab. Use the Contributor filter to limit your search to Refinitiv StreetEvents.
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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.
SDC Platinum - Securities Data Company
SDC Platinum can be searched through Refinitiv Workspace database. Enter a company name and look under Events tab for Company Deals. To screen for deals using your own criteria, enter DSCREEN in the top search box.. SDC Platinum can be searched using the client interface in Dewey Library on workstations 2-4.
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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, joint ventures and alliances; varied coverage from 1980 onward. Our subscription does not include 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 ESG (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 and Incentive Lab executive compensation data.
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

LSEG Workspace
Click on second icon on top left for Search Tools and select M&A or Private Equity/VC to get started.
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PitchBook
Private equity and venture capital database with in depth information and statistics on firms, funds, deals, investors, portfolio companies, and key executives. Log-on to VPN and follow the above link to create an account. Return to the same database link to log-in with your PitchBook credentials.
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. Log-in to MIT VPN for remote access.
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.