Reports are entered into Investext Plus a few weeks after initial publication. First Call , available in the Library contains more recent notes by the same companies, however the notes are abbreviated versions of the full-text reports. All of these resources are organized by SIC code. RMA is the best source to use if your industry is dominated by competitors who are not publicly-traded, since it's the only source that includes the data of both public and private companies in its ratios. To get a report that displays both company and industry data, check out Dow Jones .
Reports contain stock performance, ratios, and other financial data.
Multex Investor will provide a similar report but also lists the names of each company included in the industry group it defines. Finally, Research Insight is an annually updated compact disk that contains twenty years of financial data on publicly traded U.S. companies. You may do keyword searching in any of these databases in order to find industry-related articles. Please refer to our FAQ on article research for a list of available databases that can be used in the library or when you are elsewhere. This annual volume pulls tables from publications which determine market share for a variety of industries.