Analyze Your Competitors' Web Sites/ What They Don't Want
You To Know:
Accurate and timely information is essential for any business
to remain competitive. Read their financial information,
compare companies on several different types of investment
data.
It's much easier to obtain information on companies that are
publicly held because they must report financial information
to the Securities & Exchange Commission. Therefore, the first
step in researching a company is determining whether it is
traded on the stock exchange.
Following are some sources for a variety of information that
your competitors don't want you to know:
1. Check at
for just about any
information you would want about a company; a corporate
description, financial information, key officers, competitors,
and more.
2. Corporate Information provides U.S. and international
Companies’ information including research reports, company
profiles, earnings information and analyst reports.
3. Business.com reveals news, research and contacts for
10,000 public and 44,000 private companies.
4. You can research public opinion of a company and its
competitors by using Google's Usenet Service, google.com>. Silicon Investor's Stock Talk, investor.com/index.gsp> and Raging Bull lycos.com/cgi-bin/static.cgi/aindex.txt&dmainpages>
CEO's Expresss, a business research service is a wonderful site
for gleaning information on a company.
Source:
Flanagan, Debbie
"Researching Companies on the Internet-A Tutorial"
6/11/01
(1 Jul. 2001)
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