Finance: A Guide to Library Research

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Guide to using Dow Jones Factiva

Digital collection of historical Moody's, Hoover's, Dun & Bradstreet, and Mergent publications. Coverage dates range from 1909-present, depending on the source. The collection includes:

• Moody's/Mergent Corporate Manuals
• Dun & Bradstreet's Key Business Ratios
• Million Dollar Directory
• Hoover's Handbooks
• Historical International Company Annual Reports

Most publications are only available as a PDF download. These files can be quite large.

Provides access to current and historical financial information on 15,000 US and 20,000 foreign companies, both active and inactive, including firm description, statistics, and financial information, as well as annual reports. Mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock and insider trading are also provided in the company records. Historical data is available for the past 15 years. Company reports and financials can be exported to Excel.

Includes Mergent Horizon data about a firm's products; its relationships with its major customers, suppliers, and partners; its competitors; its financials; and the industry space in which it operates.

Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines.

Orbis has information about 40 million companies, including 18 million European companies from 46 countries, 16 million US and Canadian companies, 6.5 million South and Central American companies, 1.3 million Japanese companies, 300,000 Chinese companies, and 90,000 African companies. Orbis includes information about 30,000 banks and 8,000 insurance companies.

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Information about Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Initial Public Offering (IPO), Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) deals, going back five years for international deals and back to 1997 for deals involving European and American companies.

Users are required to enter "University of Michigan" in the "Enter your organization's name" box to authenticate and use the database.Technical Notes: Use of scripts or automated methods to download data from Zephyr is strictly prohibited. If you require access to a larger dataset, please contact kresge_library@umich.edu. 

Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements require that you include the phrase, "Used with permission of Orbis." This database is for personal use only, meaning that you should never share your log-in credentials for this resource.

Digital collection of historical Moody's, Hoover's, Dun & Bradstreet, and Mergent publications. Coverage dates range from 1909-present, depending on the source. The collection includes:

• Moody's/Mergent Corporate Manuals
• Dun & Bradstreet's Key Business Ratios
• Million Dollar Directory
• Hoover's Handbooks
• Historical International Company Annual Reports

Most publications are only available as a PDF download. These files can be quite large.

Searchable by financial data, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, related companies, and more.