LibGuides: MGMT 485W: Business Policy and Strategy: Industry Profiles

Industry Profiles

North American Industry Classification - 6 digit code that classifies business establishments by their primary type activity.

Find NAICS Code by Company Name

Mergent Online
Provides access to the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company database available, including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies.

Provides access to comprehensive global company data, including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies. Includes access to Investext Snapshot and Mergent Analytics.
Nexis Uni
Varies (Restricted to ODU)

Lexis Nexis Academic has been up graded to Nexis Uni. Nexis Uni provides a more personalized experience, intuitive discovery, and a more collaborative research environment. Nexis Uni features news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Offers an intuitive, engaging research experience on a wide range of devices. Students can create individual user IDs and passwords to enable setting of Alerts, saving searches and bookmarking documents of interest.

Economic Census: Industry Snapshots
Provides the last two U.S. Economic Censuses (2002 and 2007) in simple-to-read graphs and tables. Data collected includes total receipts, payroll, total employment, and number of establishments, categorized by two- and three-digit NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) industry codes.

Industry profiles provide a perspective on how the industry as a whole is structured and how it operates.

Examine external factors that affect a company.

•Industry definition

•Key companies & market share

•Industry size/segments

•Current industry performance

•Industry trends

•External factors influencing the industry: economy, etc.

IBISWorld
Features over 700 reports on U.S. industries and a growing collection of global industry reports. The U.S. reports are written at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Each report of about 25-30 pages uses Michael Porter's "Five Competitive Forces" framework to provide data on key statistics, industry structure, and analysis, and factors that affect the industry.

Getting started with IBISWorld:
http://library.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/getting_started_ibisworld.pdf

Provides industry market intelligence that analyzes the business operating risks and opportunities of US and global industries. Contains information on competitors – and how to gain competitive advantage – barriers to entry, industry life cycle and factors such as regulation and taxation, allowing users to understand the complete business environment. Click here for video tutorials from IBISWorld.
Business Source Complete
MarketLine, Datamonitor, and other reports are available through Business Source Complete. Search by industry name or NAICS code and choose Source Type: Industry Profile.

Provides comprehensive coverage of the most important scholarly journals for all business disciplines, and author profiles. Also includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Value Line Investment Survey
Provides a 1-page timely industry snapshot, including composite statistics. To search, choose Standard Edition, then Lookup Industry from the left-hand column.

Contains a richly detailed and continuously updated compendium of current and historical market and financial data spanning thousands of U.S. companies, mutual funds and other securities, industry sectors, indices and economic variables.
ABI/INFORM Collection
Click on Data & Reports to limit search to Company and/or Industry Reports. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Access to information on over 60,000 companies with business and executive profiles.

Comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key business and economics periodicals. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

Mintel
Search by company name, click search, type in company name, limit to company, click search, will bring up relevant market research reports. Provides access to U.S. and international market and consumer research through reports, data, daily news articles on corporate, product and advertising activity, as well as opinions and comments from Mintel's analysts. Please create or sign in to your Mintel Reports Personal Profile if you wish to save, download, or bookmark records. You must sign up with your Old Dominion University email address to create your Mintel Reports Personal Profile.

Provides access to U.S. and international market and consumer research through reports, data, daily news articles on corporate, product and advertising activity, as well as opinions and comments from Mintel's analysts. Please create or sign-in to your Mintel Academic Personal Profile if you wish to save, download, or bookmark records. You must sign-up with your Old Dominion University e-mail address to create your Mintel Academic Personal Profile.
IBISWorld
Provides access to IBISWorld Industry Research reports using Michael Porter's Five Competitive Forces framework providing data on key statistics, industry structure and analysis, and factors that affect the industry.

Provides industry market intelligence that analyzes the business operating risks and opportunities of US and global industries. Contains information on competitors – and how to gain competitive advantage – barriers to entry, industry life cycle and factors such as regulation and taxation, allowing users to understand the complete business environment. Click here for video tutorials from IBISWorld.
Business Source Complete
1886 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)

Provides comprehensive coverage of the most important scholarly journals for all business disciplines, and author profiles. Also includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Market Share Reporter (Print Resource) by Gale Research Inc.; Gale Group.
Call Number: HF5410 .M35
Publication Date: c1991-

Industry ratios are an aggregate measure of industry performance. These are then used as a benchmarking tool in comparing a company's performance to that of its industry.

IBISWorld
Industry market research reports cover many industries in the U.S. economy by NAICS code.
In the Key Statistics section of each report you will find industry ratios & statistics. Provides access to IBISWorld Industry Research reports using Michael Porter's Five Competitive Forces framework providing data on key statistics, industry structure and analysis, and factors that affect the industry.

Provides industry market intelligence that analyzes the business operating risks and opportunities of US and global industries. Contains information on competitors – and how to gain competitive advantage – barriers to entry, industry life cycle and factors such as regulation and taxation, allowing users to understand the complete business environment. Click here for video tutorials from IBISWorld.
Factiva
Compare your company's ratios against its industry, sector, or S&P 500 Index aggregation.
Click Companies/Markets tab - Companies - search by ticker or company name - Click Reports - using pull down menu, select Ratio Comparison Report.

Provides current and retrospective news stories, periodical articles, and company and industry financial data covering virtually every subject category.

RMA Annual Statement Studies (Print Resource) by Robert Morris Associates
Call Number: HF5681.B2R6
Publication Date: 1977-
Available on the 3rd floor of Perry Library.
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios (Print Resource) by Leo Troy
Call Number: HF5681.R25 T68
Provides financial ratios for companies in various asset ranges by NAICS code. Data reported are based on aggregate numbers from IRS records.
Available on the 3rd floor of Perry Library.