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Finding a share prospectus in Capital IQ
When you are researching an equity offering, one of the key items you will need is the prospectus, also known as the offer document or listing particulars. It is a legally-specified document, filed by the ...
Where can I find… Company financial ratios?
Financial ratios are often used to measure the performance of a company. These can be found 'ready-made' in several of our finance resources. Company ratios can be categorised into different types: Profitability ratios - e.g. ...
Finding brokers’ and analysts’ reports in the SOM Library
If you are researching a company’s performance over time or analysing the impact of a corporate transaction, valuable information can be sourced from analysts’ reports. What are analysts' reports and why might I need them? ...
Company codes – CUSIP, SEDOL, ISIN…. What do they mean and how can you use them in our resources?
As you use our many finance resources you will probably notice unique company identifiers which may be codes or symbols. It is worth spending some time getting to know what these are and which resources ...
Finding a company’s market value
If you had to find a company's market value, would you know where to look? Now, before you ask, we're talking listed companies only here, so solely those which have shares actively traded on a stock ...
Researching… M&A
Mergers and acquisitions are never very far from the news. But if you need to find out about a transaction in depth, where can you source the details you might not find in the papers? M&A Specifics Capital ...