Research Guides: Business Administration: Company & Trade Info

Industry Codes

SIC (Standard Industrial Classification)

Four digit numerical code assigned by the U.S. government to identify the primary business category.

NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System)

Six digit hierarchical coding system to classify all economic activity into twenty industry sectors.

Search by SIC, NAICS or keyword; browse by category; use SIC/NAICS conversion table; or look up alphabetical SIC/NAICS categories.

Online Stock Trading

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Trade Information Resources

Background Notes (from the U.S. Department of State)
Background Notes include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
Doing Business Project (from the World Bank)
The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational level.
Foreign Direct Investment database (from the United Nations)
This database provides information regarding global FDI flows, stocks, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and investment treaties based on year and country. A login is not required to access the database. However, if you would like to save any of these reports, you will need to login.
globalEdge's Country Insights
Your source for statistical data for 201 countries around the world. In addition to statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions are available
Penn World Table
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries/territories for some or all of the years 1950-2009. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

Annual Reports

Listed below are some databases and websites that offer annual reports. You can often obtain a company's annual report by calling the corporation's investor relations department or by going to the company's website

http://www.annualreports.com/
Contains thousands of free annual reports.

CAROL - Company Annual Reports On-Line
Annual Reports from companies in Europe and the USA. Free but registration is required.

Corporate Reports Online
Historical Annual Reports (1800-1975) maintained by the Lippincott Library at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stock Quotes

Company Profiles

Market Research Library
The Market Research Library is an online database of international market research reports and documents provided by the U.S. Commercial Service.
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance is a free online source; an excellent source of most important current ratios/financials, especially at the industry level, and basic company profiles/news. Lacks complete financials and ratios, historic data, and SWOT.