Researching Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds
Factiva
Companies and Markets section provides extensive financial and current news and press releases. Quotes offers current and historical pricing for stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Company Screening allows the preparation of a list of companies filtered by size, earnings, region and price per share data. Interactive Charting feature offers comparisons of stock/bond price vs. news of teh company for any given day in the past 5 years.
Available through Pioneer as well as at most academic institutions in Utah.
Morningstar
Provides a stock/mutual fund screener, as well as detailed reports on individual stocks and funs. Notable for its famous risk and return ratings.
SEC Info
While there are many sources for SEC company information, SEC Info is one of the best. It offers the full range of SEC reports and Canadian SEDAR filings, all in a hypertext, printable format. No advertising; registration is required. Also offers an alerting service which brings the SEC reports of your choice to your email.
http://www.secinfo.com
Yahoo Finance
Offers some Morningstar information, including past performance, mutual fund holdings, risk analysis, technical analysis tools historical pricing back to 1996. http://finance.yahoo.com
Information on Hard-To-Find Stocks, Obsolete Securities, Local Companies
Directory of Obsolete Securities
Banks and companies whose original identities have been lost as a result of change in name, merger, acquisition, dissolution, reorganization, bankruptcy, charter cancellation.
Goldsheet Mining Directory
A useful page of links and resources for locating old stocks and obsolete securities; includes links to the various state's agencies that handle securities and company name registrations; websites with information on old securities; and even scripoliphy (stock certificate collecting) information.
http://www.goldsheetlinks.com/obsolete.htm
Utah Business Enity Searches
Search business registrations for Utah companies. Registered principals and certificate of existence available for a fee. Useful for getting contacts on local OTC companies.
http://secure.utah.gov/bes/action
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