Library Guides: HM 435: Financial Management in Hospitality Operations (Berks): Company Analysis Research

Business Analysis

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Visit the company website and look for their investor relations information. (Example for Dunkin Brands: http://investor.dunkinbrands.com/)

EDGAR (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
Find a company's form 10-K (annual filing) and all other reports required by the SEC. Covers all publicly-traded companies, foreign and domestic.

Value Line
Use company profiles to analyze the financial performance of your company, and industry information to determine the external factors impacting it.

Value Line is the standard investment advisory service. The Web research center provides access to the standard Value Line Investment Survey and to its related resources.
MergentOnline (company information)
Find detailed company information, business descriptions, financial statements, and corporate histories.

MergentOnline (formerly FISonline) is a subscription-based service offering information on over 15,000 U.S. public companies and 30,000 non-U.S. public companies. MergentOnline is produced by Mergent, Inc., formerly known as Moody's). Mergent/Moody's is a publisher of detailed business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements since 1900. The database also includes the Country Report module, a module that consists of the following resources: DnB Country Risk Profile, DnB Country RiskLine Report, and Mergent Country Profile.

Bloomberg Business
Bloomberg is one of the most recognized companies in the investment arena. This mega site offers stock quotes, portfolios, company news, indices, IPOs, sector stocks, bonds, treasury issues, currency exchanges, current issues of publications, and educational resources.
MSN Money
Locate market and company news, and stock trades.
Reuters: Markets & Finance
Review current events impacting company valuations and finance, and find stock trade information for your company.
Yahoo Finance - Industries - Services
Find stock trends, financial data, news and analysis for publicly traded companies.

IBISWorld
Identify external factors in the hospitality industry affecting your company's financial performance and risks.

IBISWorld provides over 700 full-text industry reports, 700 US industry risk rating reports, and information on over 8000 Publicly Traded US Companies as well as hundreds of economic and demographic profiles.

Key Business Ratios
Identify financial norms and ratios for a given industry, and the financial ratios for a specific company.

Key Business Ratios on the Web provides access to industry financial norms and ratios. These industry benchmarks are compiled from Dun & Bradstreet's database of public and private companies.

Federal Reserve Bank
Find economic research and financial trends produced by the central bank of the US.

Use academic articles and professional trade literature to support your company financial analysis and interpretation.

Business Source Premier
Academic and professional articles for hospitality management and other business disciplines.

An essential article database for business research providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM and supply chain management. App information
ABI/INFORM Collection
Academic and professional articles for hospitality management and other business disciplines.

Search a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry.

The following research guides point to additional databases for research in hospitality management and finance.

Hospitality Management
by Diane (business) Zabel Last Updated Dec 7, 2018 335 views this year
Finance
by Lauren Reiter Last Updated Apr 18, 2019 1100 views this year