Investment Research
Online Resources
Resources which can be accessed off-campus with Stuart user name and password are shown in Red. • Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage o http://library.stuart.iit.edu/eresources/All.asp#S o Provides market analyses, including company information, industry profiles, stock reports, and vital statistics (Compustat) for the last five years o Also contains information and commentary on mutual and ETF funds Business Source Premier (EBSCO) o http://library.stuart.iit.edu/eresources/All.asp#B o Includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, Datamonitor company profiles, and SWOT analyses. o Contains PDF images and full-text articles from management, marketing, and scholarly journals LexisNexis Academic o http://library.stuart.iit.edu/eresources/All.asp#L o Contains business profiles and information from Hoover’s, Standard & Poor’s, and other business research resources. Business & Company Resource Center o http://library.stuart.iit.edu/eresources/All.asp#B o Includes company profiles, industry rankings and statistics, financial ratios, current investment ratings, and much more o Customizable with specialty modules, such as PROMT and Newsletters ASAP MarketResearch.com Academic o http://library.stuart.iit.edu/eresources/All.asp#M o Includes in-depth market research reports, industry reports, and company information o Provides PDF reports from 1994 Business Insights o http://library.stuart.iit.edu/eresources/All.asp#B o Provides industry reports covering topics such as market drivers, growth opportunities, key trends, and innovations across a wide range of industry sectors o Reports are available in PDF from 1998 Bloomberg Professional o Terminal on 4th floor o Includes historic data, news, analytics, pricing, trading and communications tools for professional investors o Updated continuously, with a 20 minute delay
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MSN MoneyCentral o http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp o Free access to scores of downloadable tables and financial statements o Easy to conduct “web queries” from Excel o Free Deluxe stock screener available at http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/controls/finderpro.asp (Download required) Yahoo! Finance Stock Screener o http://screener.finance.yahoo.com/newscreener.html o Free searches through thousands of potential stocks using over 150 different screening criteria o Downloadable screener on Windows operating systems Kenneth R. French Data Library o http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html o Free access to benchmark returns for the last month, quarter, and year o Downloadable files with historical returns back to 1926
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Helpful Books for Starter Investing
• Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investments and Corporate Finance o Answath Damodaran, 1994 o HG 4028 .V3 D35 2006 (10th Floor Reserves) o Includes chapters discussing: approaches to valuation; estimation of discount rates, cash flow, and growth rates; discount models; ratios; special cases; management decisions, corporate strategy, and firm value; option-pricing theory Streetsmart Guide to Valuing a Stock: The Savvy Investor’s Key to Beating the Market o Gary Gray, Patrick J. Cusatis, and J. Randall Woolridge, 2003 o HG 4028 .V3 G69 2004 (10th Floor Reserves) o Topics discussed include analyzing stock value, how to spot undervalued or overvalued stocks, the impact of interest rate changes and earnings reports on stock value, finance theory, and uncovering misstatements and fraud The Successful Investor: What 80 Million People Need to Know to Invest Profitably and Avoid Big Losses o William O’Neil, 2004 o HG 4515 .O54 2004 (8th Floor) o Includes advice on portfolio management, maximizing profit while avoiding losses and costly mistakes; and recognizing chart patterns The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing o Jason Kelly, 2008 o HG 4661 .K35 2007 (10th Floor Reserves) o Includes tips on maximizing investment programs and real-life examples of successful investment strategies Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns o Alfred Rappaport & Michael J. Mauboussin, 2001 o HG 4529 .R37 2001 (8th Floor) o Uses sample companies to teach beginning investors about historical patterns, competitive strategy and share value; uses models to determine market implications for future performance
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