Guides: BSCI Graziadio Organizational Behavior: Company Research

Company Financial Data

S & P NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage) This link opens in a new window
Access to research products including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Investment Information

S & P NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage) This link opens in a new window
Access to research products including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives.
Refinitiv Workspace (now named LSEG Data & Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Financial news, financials, global pricing data and analytics, analyst research reports, bank investment reports and forecasts for publicly-traded companies.
This database is only available to Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial, academic research, and requires registration.

Company Profiles

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
The Company Profiles section will contain Hoover's Company Reports and other profiles
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This database will contain Datamonitor/Marketline company profiles which have SWOT Analyses.

Researching Private Companies

Researching private companies is more challenging than publicly-traded companies since they are not required to report information to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). In most cases you will not be able to obtain financial statements such as income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements for private companies.

PrivCo This link opens in a new window
Source for business and financial research on private companies, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
The company profiles section has resources for private companies. In addition, the Hoover's Company Reports are available for the larger privately-held companies.
DemographicsNow (Gale Business) This link opens in a new window
Demographic data mapping tool for custom reports, plus directory data of U.S. businesses and consumers.

Directories

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
The company profiles section allows you to search for companies by keywords.