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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 ...
A quick guide to finding company financials
Financial sources can be extremely useful to any company research, giving anything from straight figures to an insight into company structure, ownership and strategy. Try the following resources: Fame Use for financial data and ownership ...
Running a peer analysis in Fame
If you need to compare a UK company’s financial performance against a group of other companies then Fame is an easy database to start with. Fame contains the financial accounts of more than 8.5 million ...