LIB340 FINDING COMPANY INFORMATION

LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARYOCT 2012

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/library-workshops/handouts

OUTLINE

Company Information

• Company Profiles • Annual Reports• Company Financials• Competitors• Stock Prices• Credit Ratings • Company News

China Company Information

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COMPANY INFORMATION GUIDE

Research Guides @ LU Business Company Information

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COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION

DATABASES:

Hoover’s Online Information on over 45,000 public and private companies

including company history, top officers, financials, competitors, location, company news, etc.

Business Source Premier – Company ProfilesIncludes articles on business fields such as marketing,

management, accounting, finance, economics, etc. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, etc.

Factiva [Companies/Markets]

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COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION

INTERNET RESOURCES:

Company Information (from Etnet)Provides company profiles for listed companies in Hong Kong

http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/tc/stocks/ci_database.phpCompany Histories (from Answers.com)http://www.answers.com/library/Company%20Histories

Research Hub [from finet.com]http://www.finet.hk/mainsite/index.htm

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ANNUAL REPORTSDATABASE:Osiris

INTERNET RESOURCES:Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com]

• http://www.irasia.com/ar.htmHKExNews

http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advancedsearch/search_active_main.asp#

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COMPANY FINANCIALSDATABASES: Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] Osiris LexisNexis Academic Compustat Bloomberg Terminal  

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COMPETITORS

Hoover’s Online

Business Source Premier – Company Profiles

Factiva [Companies/Markets]

Osiris

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STOCK PRICESDATABASES: Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] Bloomberg Terminal

INTERNET RESOURCES: ETNet

http://www.etnet.com.hk Money18

http://money18.on.cc/index.html Yahoo! HongKong Finance

http://hk.finance.yahoo.com Google Finance

http://www.google.com.hk/finance?

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CREDIT RATINGS Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect :Web-based source for Standard & Poor's global credit ratings, research, and risk analysis.

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Current data

COMPANY NEWS

Databases:Factiva (English & Chinese)

LexisNexis Academic (English)

Hoover’s Online (English)

Wisenews (English & Chinese)

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CHINA COMPANY INFORMATIONDatabases:Wind China Financial Information Services (Wind.Net)

• Financial data and news for China including listed companies (A-share and B-share), fund, bond, macro economic data, etc.

CSMAR• Company financial information and trading statistics of listed

companies in China. Includes both A Shares and B Shares..

China InfoBank (中國資訊行 )• An important source of economic and business data,

legislations, statistics and news of Mainland China. Most information is in Chinese.

• 中國公司企業產品• 中國經濟新聞• 中國商業報告

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