Library Guides: Company information: Company information

About company information

Company information refers to reported information about companies including:

Company accounts
Financial statements
Registered addresses
The legal form of a company

Directors' details
SIC codes
Share prices

Due to legal reporting requirements in most countries, you will be able to find out more information about publicly listed companies than private limited companies, and even less about sole traders.

Business Library Online Resources: Company and Financial Data (video)

Using company information

You can use this data for coursework, projects and when looking for a job.

Information taken from City Library databases must not be used for commercial purposes, including for university placements.

Special login details are required for some databases. Business Students can access these on Business Library Moodle 2021-2022. All other students, please email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.

Some financial resources are only available on specific bookable PCs in the library.

Key resources for company information

Fame
Provides profit and loss, balance sheet, ratios and trends, stock prices, credit score and rating information (where available) for major public and private British companies. Lists of companies can be created using any combination of 300 search items.

Please note that Bureau van Dijk resources may be used for educational research only, and may not be used for institutional business purposes.
Mergent Online
Company financials, stock prices, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries officers and directors, long - term debt and capital stock.

User Guide available in Business Library Moodle 2021-2022. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
Mergent Archives
Historical corporate and industry related documents from 1909 to present day including, digitised manuals from Moody's archives, Ford Equity Research Reports, Annual reports for global companies going back to 1925 and a historical Mergent industry reports
from 2003.
MarketLine Advantage
Use the Company Search for profiles on major companies. You can see biographies of key executives and employees, history of companies, as well as SWAT analyses.

User Guide (PDF, 2.1 MB).
Nexis UK
Use the Company search to find profiles produced by business information providers like Dunn & Bradstreet (Hoovers), Worldscope and Reuters.

The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 90 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
Factiva
Select Companies/Markets and use the Smart Search to find a complete profile of a company. Alternatively, use Industry option to see an overview of a particular industry.

The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 90 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
CB Insights
CB Insights is a global private company database that covers daily real-time information about venture capital, angel investor-backed private startups. It also contains M&A and IPO news, private equity and industry analysis. Please note that there is a limit of 4000 profile views and 4000 downloads per user per year.

Accessibility information for CB Insights

Students and staff should email the Business Library to request instructions for creating an account. Your City email address is only used for log-in, CB Information Services do not use this information for any other purpose.

CB Insights Registration Information
For access to CB Insights, please email the Business Library at businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.

Further resources for company information

Bloomberg
A global financial markets database providing news, analytics, real time pricing for over 5 million securities world-wide plus extensive historical pricing and stock charts.

Limitation - 27 remote users at a time. If you get the message that all terminals are in use, please try again later.

Following changes to the Bloomberg Disaster Recovery access model, from 5th July 2021 all Bloomberg access will be available remotely and it will no longer be possible to book a Bloomberg terminal on campus. You can continue to use Bloomberg from on-campus terminals (PCs 7-12) in the Financial Resources Zone, Business Library and (PCs 1-6) in the Financial Resources Suite, Northampton Square Library but we cannot guarantee that Bloomberg will be available from these terminals. We recommend that you use the Bloomberg Remote Access icon on the terminal desktop, rather than logging onto Bloomberg as normal. For remote access details, please email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00 UK time. To take the Bloomberg Certification, see Signing up for Bloomberg Market Concepts.
BankFocus
Worldwide coverage of banks. It provides detailed information covering at least 5 years’ history for listed banks and at least 3 years’ for unlisted, with ‘as reported’ financial items available both in English and local languages using local GAAP and IFRS formats whenever available. BankFocus includes original filings, corporate structures, the facility to represent data graphically.

Accessibility information for BankFocus

Please note that Bureau van Dijk resources may be used for educational research only, and may not be used for institutional business purposes.
Eikon (Refinitiv)
Eikon contains news, analytics and financial content. It also includes a range of prices for multiple assets, fundamentals, estimates and charts. Includes data from Worldscope, I/B/E/S, Lipper and Asset 4. Use the Excel Add-In to download data and access Datastream.

Limitation - A limited number of Eikon usernames are available for off-site access and are issued Monday to Friday 09:00- 17:00 UK time.

Available on 5 bookable PCs in the Financial Resources Zone, Business Library, 8 bookable PCs in the Refinitiv Trading Room (Business School) and 3 bookable PCs in the Financial Resources Suite, Northampton Square Library. A limited number of Eikon usernames are available for off-site access. These will be issued on a first come, first served basis (Monday to Friday 09:00- 17:00 UK time) and will expire at 08:00 UK time the following day, if issued on a Friday the username will expire at 08:00 UK time Monday. If you want access to Eikon Analyst Reports, please state this in your email. For access and further details please email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk
Filings Expert
International database of original company documents. Includes Annual Reports, Accounts and Interims, Circulars (IPOs, M&A documents, etc.), RIS news, Investor Presentations and transcripts, SEC Filings, and Bond prospectuses. Private company accounts for top 500 companies from 17 jurisdictions.
Mergent Archives
Historical corporate and industry related documents from 1909 to present day including, digitised manuals from Moody's archives, Ford Equity Research Reports, Annual reports for global companies going back to 1925 and a historical Mergent industry reports
from 2003.
Audit Analytics: Audit and Compliance
WRDS dataset listed under Audit Analytics. Audit Analytics: Audit and Compliance provides detailed research on over 150,000 active audits and more than 10,000 accounting firms. Includes detailed categorisations of issues to enable tracking and analysis of public company disclosures.

To access WRDS datasets, click 'Register' on the WRDS homepage. Register using your City email address. Under 'Affiliation Type', postgraduate and undergraduate students should select 'Masters/Undergrad'.

You will receive an email within two working days asking you to agree to the Terms & Conditions. Follow the instructions in the email to finish setting up your account.
Audit Analytics: Corporate and Legal
WRDS dataset listed under Audit Analytics. Audit Analytics: Corporate and Legal provides data on actions, disclosures and correspondence by companies, advisors, regulators and investors. Databases cover SEC Comment Letters, Litigation, Bankruptcy and Shareholder Activism.

To access WRDS datasets, click 'Register' on the WRDS homepage. Register using your City email address. Under 'User type', postgraduate and undergraduate students should select 'Masters/Undergrad.'

You will receive an email within two working days asking you to agree to the Terms & Conditions. Follow the instructions in the email to finish setting up your account.

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About company information

Business Library Online Resources: Company and Financial Data (video)

Using company information

Key resources for company information

Further resources for company information