X420 Advantage Session: “Get the Competitive Advantage in Your Job Search”

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X420 Presentation

Walgreens Example

Walgreens.com

 

Financial Data

Survey the company's past, present, and future. A successful research will include::

  • Sales and Earnings
  • Assets and Liabilities
  • Stock Information
  • Bond Issues and Rating
  • SEC Filings
  • 10-K and 10-Q Reports
  • Financial Indexes

Factiva
Access to full-text SEC filings and documents, stock quotes, financial histories, market research reports, country reports, and the latest business news from over 6,000 academic, trade and popular publications. Allows company and industry comparisons.

Guidestar
Provides information about the operations and finances of nonprofit organizations.

Investext Plus
Database containing investment house reports on more than 11,000 publicly traded U.S. and international companies, and 53 industries; Information related to sales, market share, product positioning, and stock performance and earnings.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Choose “Business” from the left side bar for Information related to company financial data, EDGAR filings, quarterly and annual reports, and industry and market trends and business news.

Securities and Exchange Commission
Search the EDGAR database for access to SEC filings including, 10-K, 8-K, and prospectuses for mutual funds.

Thomson Research
Formally known as Global Access, Thomson provides access to full-text SEC filings and to scanned images of U.S. and international company annual reports submitted to U.S. and foreign exchanges. Contains basic company information, annual and quarterly financials, earnings information, fundamental ratios, officers and directors, institutional and insider ownership, and a complete list of company subsidiaries.

  Content developed by Kate Quarles, September 2001
Revised by Carolyn Walters, October 2004
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