Gov. Agencies Regulating Companies
For detailed analysis on over 18,000 American and foreign companies (in English), see Wright Research Center Company Reports at http://profiles.wisi.com (merged with CorporateInformation in January 2001).Search by company name or ticker symbol.
Quicken.ca
at http://www.quicken.ca/ provides information on Canadian
public companies that includes a brief company profile,
officer names, stock performance, quarterly results and a
financial summary.
Japan
Financial at http://www.japanfinancials.com/ contains translations and
originals of official financial statements of all firms
on the Tokyo stock exchange and major OTC firms.
Moody’s
Investor Services at http://www.moodys.com/ provides credit rating and
research and financial information about companies. Standard
& Poor’s, at http://www.standardandpoors.com/ratings/index.htm, also provides some of this
information, but its site seems to be more of an
advertisement for its fee based services.
Market Guide at http://marketguide.com/MGI/ offers company reports, real time stock quotes (but you must register and can only view 50 per day), news and price charts. Also see ThomsonRTQ’s site for real time stock quotes at http://www.thomsonfn.com.
Yahoo
Finance at http://quote.yahoo.com provides current stock quotes
(but delayed by 15-20 minutes) and at http://chart.yahoo.com/d you can now find historical U.S.
stock quotes (back to 1970), quotes from Canadian and
other foreign exchanges, mutual and money market funds,
corporate bonds and precious metals. Yahoo also has a
multitude of financial and general company information in
a very user-friendly format.
While the SEC's
EDGAR site at http://www.sec.gov/edaux/searches.htm provides free access to all
public companies' filings, it is has some shortcomings:
access to filings is delayed by a day, there is no full
text searching (only headers), annual reports are not
available (see http://www.reportgallery.com/ for annual reports) and the
documents may not be formatted well.
Instead of the EDGAR site, I have preferred 10KWizard at http://www.tenkwizard.com/ when I needed a copy of a filing that was filed five minutes ago. Don't be mislead by its name. It delivers much more than just 10K’s - the reason I say "preferred" in the past tense, is that in September 2001, the site began to charge a $99.95 subscription fee for content it had previously offered for free. It still provides free, full-text searching to all forms filed with the SEC - but users must pay the subscription fee to actually view/download the SEC filings. 10-K Wizard also offers (free) the ability to search by ticker symbol, company name, SIC code, type of form. The search can also be limited by date. See this article to learn how you can still use 10-K Wizard's robust search engine AND retrieve SEC filings for free.
