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Best of the Best Business Web Sites
Sponsored by the BRASS Education Committee

American Corporations

Maintained by
Paul Brothers
University of Alabama
pbrother@cba.ua.edu

Financial Data

Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval
(EDGAR) 1994-
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

Provides 10-K, 20-F, proxy statements, some annual reports, and other financial statements of public companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Yahoo! Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com

Organized by Yahoo!, this meta site links to information on U.S. markets, world markets, data sources, finance references, investment editorials, financial news, and other helpful Web sites.

Stockmaster
(formerly MIT Experimental Stock Market Page)
http://www.stockmaster.com/

With a "look-up" function by ticker symbol or name of the company, the site provides extensive investment information, including quotes, news, SEC filings, and earnings histories.

Holt Stock Report
http://metro.turnpike.net/holt/index.html

Daily reports provides market summary for 29 indexes and averages for domestic and international markets. Also includes a list of stocks most active that day on all of the exchanges. The archive has data going back to 1994.

Big Charts
http://www.bigcharts.com

This commercial sources supplies a easy-to-use online charting and investment research Web sites providing access to interactive charts, quotes, reports and indicators on over 50,000 stocks, mutual funds, market indexes, and historical quotes back to 1985.

Public Register's Annual Report Service
http://www.prars.com/

America's largest annual report service which provides, free of charge, company financials, including annual reports, prospectuses or 10-Ks on over 3,600 public companies.

Directories

Companies Online
http://www.CompaniesOnline.com/

Using either name, location, type of business, or telephone number, find companies in a yellow pages style national directory. A location map and link to a company's web site is given in the directory listing.

Hoover's Corporate Register
http://www.hoovers.com

This site gives links to company home pages. It also has a subscription service portion that contains profiles for 12 million companies, including 40,000 in-depth. The profiles include contact information, a review of the company, and more.

Fortune 500
http://fortune.com/fortune/companies

Search this list of links to companies or access the list in various ranked orders.

Forbes Lists
http://www.forbes.com/lists/

Search the Forbes ranked lists of companies and other Forbes lists, including the "200 Best Small Companies," the "400 Best Big Companies," and the "International 500."

PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com

or
Business Wire
http://www.businesswire.com

Many news stories never make it into print, even in local or specialized publications. Consult electronic wire services for corporate press releases.

Last updated: 02/09/08
Previously maintained by Lee Pike, University of Alabama
Previously maintained by Michael Oppenheim, UCLA
Previously maintained by Les Kong, California State University, San Bernardino
List originally compiled by Jennifer Boettcher, Georgetown University

Sponsored by the BRASS Education Committee


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