Research Guides: Finance and Financial Data: Home

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The below databases are great for those who are new to finance or want easy-to-use platforms to perform company research.

Hoovers
Best for: Public company profiles and SWOTs.
Mergent Online
Best for: Financials and analyst reports.
Mergent Intellect
Best for: Building and downloading a list of companies.

Industry Platforms

The below databases are widely used by professionals in finance and related industries. They are useful for performing more complicated financial analyses, charting, modeling, etc.

Bloomberg
Bloomberg must be used at the terminal; there is no remote access.
Capital IQ
A competitor to Bloomberg and LSEG Workspace that can be used anywhere in the world, with no wait time for registration. A Standard & Poor's product.
LSEG Workspace
Known in corporate as Eikon. The successor product to Thomson ONE and Refinitiv. Individual account creation required before you can login. Account requests are processed in 7-10 business days. (Already have an account? Log into the web interface or download the Mac/PC software.)
Wind
Best for: Chinese firms.
Only available to select scholars at Stern.
Only available to NYU Shanghai.