If stock may be acquired only by order matching, this is also noted. The company's stock transfer agent and auditor are identified. Up to two market makers are mentioned and their telephone numbers are provided. Often the name of a broker dealer known to specialize in that stock is provided along with the specialist's affiliation and telephone number. There are 110 banks profiled in this manual, representing over one-fifth of the total number of companies reported.
Banks report a slightly different set of financial figures.
A very detailed accounting of the contents of each profile is given on pages xviii through xxi in the book's introduction. Separate sets of pages explain the additional data elements for the bank profiles. There are several indices. The first index simply lists the companies in alphabetical order with an asterisk marking all the companies that have been added since the first edition. There is a geographic index that lists the companies alphabetically by state.