Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks(TM) offers you quick and easy access to key financial statistics on approximately 900 New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. This handbook, updated quarterly, presents market data, performance ratios, stock prices, and dividend information of recent quarterly results as well as future prospects in succinct one-page profiles. Filled with the latest available facts and figures, Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks helps you make the most informed investment decisions. Each full-page company profile includes: Business Summary — highlights products, markets and business lines; Summary of recent developments, including latest quarterly earnings reports; Future prospects analysis; Stock movement charts showing 10-year records of monthly highs and lows and trading volumes, if available; Ten years of income statement and balance sheet data, if available; Dividend payment record; Key performance ratios; Institutional holdings—number of institutions and number of shares held; Officers, address, phone and fax numbers, Web sites, transfer agents, auditor, investor contact and legal counsel and more. Plus, special addenda that includes: Companies added and dropped; Recent and pending dividends and splits; Recent dividend changes; Recent and pending name changes; Latest developments and more. A Century of Providing Trusted Information For over a century, Mergent has been the preferred source for global business and financial information by providing comprehensive data to savvy investors, both novice and professional. Mergent?s business research tools offer a convenient way to quickly identify potential investment opportunities with the most reliable and complete business and financial information available.

Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks(TM) offers you quick and easy access to key financial statistics on approximately 900 New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. This handbook, updated quarterly, presents market data, performance ratios, stock prices, and dividend information of recent quarterly results as well as future prospects in succinct one-page profiles. Filled with the latest available facts and figures, Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks helps you make the most informed investment decisions. Each full-page company profile includes: Business Summary highlights products, markets and business lines; Summary of recent developments, including latest quarterly earnings reports; Future prospects analysis; Stock movement charts showing 10-year records of monthly highs and lows and trading volumes, if available; Ten years of income statement and balance sheet data, if available; Dividend payment record; Key performance ratios; Institutional holdings number of institutions and number of shares held; Officers, address, phone and fax numbers, Web sites, transfer agents, auditor, investor contact and legal counsel and more. Plus, special addenda that includes: Companies added and dropped; Recent and pending dividends and splits; Recent dividend changes; Recent and pending name changes; Latest developments and more. A Century of Providing Trusted Information For over a century, Mergent has been the preferred source for global business and financial information by providing comprehensive data to savvy investors, both novice and professional. Mergents business research tools offer a convenient way to quickly identify potential investment opportunities withthe most reliable and complete business and financial information available.

This new edition of Strauss's guide helps users to find current information for and about businesses of all kinds—both private and public, U.S.-based and international—related to finance, investment, industries, and entrepreneurship. Strauss's Handbook of Business Information is a resource for finding and understanding business information. It contains explanation and instruction on the key facets of business information and provides detailed descriptions of key resources within both broad and specific categories. It can be used as a guide to further understanding the what, how, and why of business information research. The changing arena of business information requires regular updating and awareness. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with three new chapters: Entrepreneurship, Competitive Intelligence, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Other additions of note include subsections on internet and mobile marketing and tax havens and related issues; coverage of new legislation (e.g., Dodd-Frank); and subsections on index funds, investment communities, regulatory bodies and laws, hedge funds, venture capital companies, assessing risks, robo-advisors, and more. The Handbook is for students, faculty, librarians, and information professionals looking to gain a broader and deeper understanding of business information. Anyone needing to gain quick exposure to business information needs and resources for solutions will benefit from the volume as well.