Links from The Investment FAQ: Research
These sites offer fundamental information about companies and their stocks that can help with basic company research, such as screening. Look at the page with links about mutual funds for help with research on funds. These sites are grouped into:
- BB-Net offers a multimedia investor relations site
http://www.bb-net.com - Bankruptcy Creditors' Service offers a free T&W Newswire newsletter,
and comprehensive database on stocks and bonds of bankrupt companies.
http://bankrupt.com - Barkley International offers the Oasis, a site with Barkley's
Financial Glossary and other information.
http://www.oasismanagement.com - Barra Inc. offers tools for helping investors make informed
decisions.
http://www.barra.com/ - Berkshire Online allows individual investors to gain timely,
comprehensive information about growth-oriented companies.
http://www.growth.com/ - Buttonwood Financial Resources is an investment information
provider for both the individual investor and institutional
investor.
http://www.buttonwood.net/ - Carlson On-line Services offers information, press releases, stock
quotes, charts, and links to home pages for Canadian companies listed
on the TSE, VSE, ASE, and ME.
http://www.fin-info.com - CorporateInformation.com is free and contains thousands of
annotated links, with 20,000+ company profiles, a newly established
message board for over 12,000 non-US companies, and has a search engine
which allows you to search for company profiles with over 350,000
profiles at other sites.
http://www.corporateinformation.com/ - Creative Investment Research is an investment research and
management company that researches and creates socially responsible
investments.
http://www.creativeinvest.com - Daily Stocks is a useful starting point for researching a
company. Also has many links to quote and chart providers.
http://www.dailystocks.com/ - Four Star Investor offers a low-cost, online stock screen and
portfolio optimization tool well grounded in academic financial research.
http://www.fourstarinvestor.com - Global Securities Information, Inc. are specialists in research,
retrieval, and watch of SEC and international corporate filings-
LIVEDGAR. They also offer an incremental search engine for querying
the EDGAR database.
http://www.gsionline.com - Hoover's runs "StockScreener", a site that lets you search for
issues based on 20 performance criteria. They will find the issues
that live up to your expectations and it's free!
http://www.hoovers.com/free - i-Soft, Inc. offers a search engine for quotes and news
on publically traded companies.
http://www.i-soft.com
- The Info-Mine contains information on over 3,000 mining companies.
Users can obtain addresses and other detailed information on each
company including news and brokerage reports.
http://www.info-mine.com/ - Intervest Financial Corp. offers corporate profiles and news
releases for junior companies.
http://www.intervest.com/finance/ - Investment Tools Inc. provides Exception Reports highlighting
stocks and options with special characteristics.
http://www.investment-tools.com - The Investor Channel offers corporate profiles and news releases.
http://www.invchannel.com/ - The Investor Relations Group offers corporate profiles and other
information about their client companies.
http://www.invrel.com/ - The IPO Monitor Service provides timely notification of
information and events associated with companies entering the public
equities market via an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
http://www.ipomonitor.com/ - Knobias offers an unbiased information repository of information
on over 6,000 OTC-BB and Pink Sheet companies -- in their terms,
Outside Market companies. Some features are free, others require a
membership ($20/month as of this writing).
http://www.knobias.com/ - MarketPlayer offers a professional set of investment tools built
to help investors identify up-and-coming growth stocks and attractive
market sectors.
http://www.marketplayer.com/ - One Source For Stocks offers profiles and information about penny
stocks, small-cap stocks, and Canadian stocks.
http://www.1source4stocks.com/ - The Partes Corporation offers FreeEDGAR, a site with free and
timely access to the SEC's EDGAR filings.
http://www.freeedgar.com/ - The Primark Investment Research Center offers a searchable database of
I/B/E/S consensus earnings estimates reports and surprise reports.
http://www.pirc.com - PR Newswire offers full-text corporate news about public and private
companies, government agencies, associations and other organizations.
http://www.prnewswire.com/ - The Public Register's Annual Report Service helps investors
obtain free copies of annual reports.
http://www.prars.com - The Public Register's Annual Report Service also offers
annual reports online.
http://www.annualreportservice.com - Report Gallery, brought to you by Cornerstone Investor Relations,
offers online access to over 2,000 company annual reports.
http://www.reportgallery.com - Search-sec.com provides the investor with tools and information for
searching and analyzing EDGAR filings with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC).
http://www.search-sec.comThe SmallCap Investor offers comprehensive and timely information about often overlooked growth stocks.
http://www.smallcapinvestor.com/ - Standard and Poor's Equity Investor Services offers current
headlines, stock screens (6 per week), market activity, records of
stock splits, research reports, etc. A subscription fee of about $8
per month is charged for most services, but some services (including
sample screens) are offered at no charge.
http://www.stockinfo.standardpoor.com/ - The Stock Detective is your guide to stock scams and fraud.
http://www.thestockdetective.com/ - Stock Line is a source for news and information on microcap
stocks, including news, interviews, and research.
http://www.stock-line.com - StockMarketYellowPages.com allows you to search for public
companies based upon their descriptions.
http://www.stockmarketyellowpages.com/ - Stock Traders Press researches and recommends stocks based on
earnings plays, stock splits, insider buying and selling, corporate
stock buybacks, takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, short term and long
term chart patterns, momentum plays, IPO`s, and the occasional gut
feeling.
http://www.stocktraderspress.com/ - Stockwarrants.Com is devoted to the analysis of stock warrants.
http://www.stockwarrants.com/ - Street Watch offers information about stock splits, earnings
announcements, market summaries and after-the-bell earnings.
http://www.street-watch.com - US Pages allows you to search for all the Fortune 500
corporations in a specific industry, read about them, view business
and financial summaries, see how their stocks are doing, and find
contact details for each.
http://www.uspages.com - Volpe, Welty & Co. offer profiles and their analyses of companies.
http://www.vwco.com/ - The Wall Street Research Net helps investors perform fundamental
research on companies and locate economic data that moves markets.
http://www.wsrn.com/ - Wilshire Associates is a global investment advisory firm that
provides investment products and services, including investment
consulting, asset management, mutual fund management and analytical
tools. We serve more than 400 organizations in over 20 countries,
representing assets totaling more than $2.5 trillion.
http://www.wilshire.com - Wingold.com is a fre site with user-friendly investment research.
http://www.wingold.com
Research About Non-US Companies
- Daiwa Securities Group offers summaries of yearly and interim
financial reports from publicly held Japanese companies (at least they
tell me they do; personally I cannot read the page).
http://www.dir.co.jp/ - Deutsche Bank offers histories and stock price data for German companies.
http://www.deutsche-bank.de/index_e.htm
- Nikko Securities provides detailed summaries of the financial and
operating prospects of hundreds of Japanese firms.
http://www.nikko.co.jp - Street Net offers a searchable American Depository Receipt (ADR)
database. Some brokerage firm research reports, free registration is
required.
http://www.vestnet.com