Friday, November 10, 2006

Mergent Online

To access Mergent Online (Open up a new browser):

From the UNL Libraries home page at http://iris.unl.edu/ select “E-Resources” Choose M and scan the resulting list for Mergent Online.

For each publicly traded company in the Mergent Online database, the record for a company search includes links to the following:
Company Details
Equity Pricing (including stock price chart)
Company Financials
EDGAR
(a record of filings with the Security and Exchange Commission)
News (3 - sections: recent articles, major events in the company's history, and dates of upcoming earnings announcements)
Research (Institutional and Insider holdings of the company stock
Competitors
Industry Reports.

Under Company Details the following tabs give specifics: Synopsis, Highlights, History, Joint Ventures, Business, Property, Subsidiaries, Long Term Debt, Executives, and Capital Stock.

Listed among the company details are its primary SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) and the NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) codes that can be used in business databases to find other companies that compete in the same manufacturing or service industry segments and to find information about that industry segment in other databases.

Mergent Online provides access to: Mergent bank & finance manual; Mergent industrial manual; Mergent OTC industrial manual;Mergent transportation manual; Mergent OTC unlisted manual; and Mergent public utility manual.

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