Finance

Value Line is an online financial research platform providing analysis, ratings, and forecasts for stocks, mutual funds, options, and ETFs. It consolidates key Value Line publications, including the Investment Survey, Small & Mid-Cap, and Fund Advisor Plus, and offers tools for screening, portfolio tracking, and market data. Reports include proprietary rankings (such as timeliness and safety), detailed company profiles, historical data, and market commentary.

Key Business Ratios provides data on public and private companies, including solvency ratios, efficiency ratios, and profitability ratios. Yearly reports are added the following 4th quarter. 1979-present

Morningstar Advisor Workstation provides a web-based database designed for financial professionals conducting investment research and portfolio analysis. The resource includes data on stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs, as well as analyst reports and tools for screening, creating hypothetical illustrations, and generating investment proposals. It supports investment planning and analytics but does not facilitate trading. Coverage begins as early as 1973 for certain fundamental data, while the most comprehensive, interconnected data available is from the mid-1990s onward.

Mergent's Event Data provides on-going updated information on stock-splits, mergers, tender offers, partial/full calls, and name changes in almost real time. You can research 10 years of corporate actions, dividends, fixed income, and unit investment trust data.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based research platform providing access to business and financial data. It includes datasets covering stock exchanges (market-wide and company-specific), balance sheets, income statements, banking, and macroeconomic information. Key datasets available through WRDS include CRSP (security prices), Compustat ExecuComp (financial and marketing data), I/B/E/S (earnings estimates), Dow Jones Averages (stock index data), FDIC (financial data), PHLX (Philadelphia Stock Exchange data), IRRC (Investor Responsibility Research Center), NYSE TAQ (trades and quotes), Eventus (event studies), TRACE (corporate bond market prices), and CISDM Hedge Fund/CTA Database.

Access limited to VT faculty and PhD students; you must first submit an account request.

Business Source Complete is a citation, abstracts, and full-text database that indexes journals; books; financial data; reference works; conference proceedings; company, industry, investment, marketing, and country reports; SWOT analyses; and case studies. Full text is provides as HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1886-present; most content is 1980s-present.

ProQuest One Business integrates multiple ProQuest business collections into a single resource. It includes more than 2,400 journals and magazines, hundreds of news sources, thousands of ebooks and videos, and reports from publishers such as J.P. Morgan, Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Economics, and Hoovers. Content covers news articles, market and SWOT analyses, industry and country reports, company profiles, annual reports, business cases, dissertations, and downloadable datasets.

Factiva is a global news and business information database owned by Dow Jones that provides access to more than 33,000 sources from over 200 countries in 32 languages. It includes content from newspapers, trade journals, websites, newswires, and television and radio transcripts. Factiva offers tools for searching, tracking industry developments, and analyzing company and market information. News coverage spans 1979–present; financial data coverage begins in the 1960s.

IBISWorld provides industry market research reports for over 700 U.S. industries at the 5-digit NAICS level, along with specialized reports on niche and emerging sectors. Reports include analysis of industry performance, trends, operating conditions, and supply chains. Additional business environment reports cover economic and demographic indicators affecting industry outlook. Coverage spans current and forecast data; reports are updated regularly.

Provides long-range financial and economic data on stocks, bonds, bills, commodities, exchange rates, inflation, and other macroeconomic indicators. The database includes historical series such as asset allocation (1800s–present), commodity data (1252–present), equities (1694–present), exchange rates (1200s–present), fixed income (13th century–present), inflation (from 1209), and national accounts and GDP (1790–present). Coverage extends from medieval times to the present.

Access: Register online with your vt.edu email address to receive a login name and password.

UN Comtrade provides standardised official annual trade statistics reported by countries and reflects international merchandise flows detailed by commodity and partner country with coverage reaching up to 99 percent of world merchandise trade. 1963-present