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Resources and search tips for researching companies.
Key Databases for International Companies
- Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new windowGo to Discover Topics > Business > Company Dossier
- Passport (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new windowLimited information on consumer goods companies globally.
- GlobalData Explorer This link opens in a new windowInternational company, industry, and county profiles.
- Capital IQ This link opens in a new windowData on U.S. and international public and private companies, M&A deals, executives and boards worldwide; news, investment research, and more. Includes powerful screening tools, chart builders, and Office Plug-In modeling tool. By S&P Global. Please note that UTSA does not subscribe to Capital IQ PRO.
Access to Capital IQ is for current faculty, staff, and students only and requires approval by Capital IQ. To request a new Capital IQ account:
1. Click on the Capital IQ database link above; login with abc123 and passphrase; complete DUO authentication.
2. Click on New User in the top right header and enter your utsa.edu email.
3. Check your email box for confirmation and finish the sign-up. Your login credentials will be provided via email from Capital IQ.
Once your Capital IQ account is created, for future access you will need to use the proxied link to Capital IQ above on the library database page, and then your personal Capital IQ credentials to log in.
To download Office Plug-in, go to My Capital IQ tab > My Profile > Downloads. See research guide for more information. You may also complete Capital IQ training at S&P Market Intelligence Academic Resource Center.
- International Directory of Company Historiesvol 59-151 online via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Search for your company in the search box.
Available at Designated Workstations
- BloombergProvides analysis and quotes for equities and indices; current company, industry, and market news; and economic data for countries around the world.
UTSA faculty, students, and staff can search Bloomberg from one of sixteen workstations. One workstation is located in the 2nd floor Business Information Hub in the John Peace Library building. Fifteen workstations are located in the Financial Studies Lab in the Alvarez College of Business.
Both UTSA Libraries and Alvarez College of Business don’t have access to Bloomberg Anywhere - equivalent to the Bloomberg Terminal via the web.
Bloomberg Terminal’s Log-in Requirement:
• Bloomberg is only available on designated workstations at UTSA.
• First-time users: in order to obtain your Bloomberg login credentials, please log into a Bloomberg workstation with your UTSA abc123 and register with the Bloomberg system using your UTSA email.
Company Extensions
- Company Extensions and Security IdentifiersEver wondered what GmbH, Ltd, KG, SA, etc. in foreign companies names stand for? Find out the meaning of those terms and where they are used. Source: Corporate Information, a service of Wright Investors' Service.
Rankings
- Top 100 ListsTop global companies by fiscal year sales, market capitalization, operating margin, 52 week price trend, three year sales growth.
Source: Wright Investors' Service.
Company Registers
- Overseas RegistriesMaintained by U.K.-based Companies House.
- U.K. CompaniesCompany information from the U.K. Government.
- Official Company RegistersBy Karen Blakeman. Links to reporting and filing sites for different countries.