TEXTUAL and NUMERICAL analyses of INDUSTRIES from 2 components of Mergent Intellect
Within Mergent Intellect, there are only 2 resources which provide INDUSTRY ANALYSES:
KEY BUSINESS RATIOS - offers 15 years of numerical data through 14 business ratios, covering both private & public firms in the United States, clustered by 800 lines of business. Within each year, ratios are separately presented by the cross points for Upper quartile, Median quartile and Lower quartile. There is no mention within Key Business Ratios of any textual analysis of this data. The raw data underlying these reports are compiled anonymously from over one million corporate financial statements that are voluntarily provided to Dun & Bradstreet as part of their credit rating services. Users can quickly export KBR's data as spreadsheets or you can print the results.
FIRST RESEARCH - provides in-depth textual analysis of over 500 industries to choose from covering North America, with primary focus on publicly trade firms. Industry analyses are primarily lengthy text with a variety of tables. Company names CAN be mentioned throughout any of these reports. First Research is searchable either by SIC code, NAICS code or keyword. Look at the top of the screen for a dark blue photos adjacent to a black box with white lettering saying "Search for Industry and Geographic Profiles". Within each industry, you can view individual components either as a brief OVERVIEW, or as a FULL PROFILE showing all the components as one long document. Each INDUSTRY OVERVIEW has 11 major components, and may also have additional sub-components (as clickable links on the LEFT side of the screen). Optionally, you can jump to RELATED INDUSTRIES which are dynamically displayed in the LEFT column. Printing is offered via normal Control/P commands. If you want to download one of these First Research reports as a PDF, then you will have to master using the PRINT option on your computer to generate output as a PDF file instead of routing the document to a printer.
