LibGuides@Southampton: Data and Statistics: Company & Financial Information

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Databases are specialist search engines that will help you find good quality information.

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Database Guides

UK Company Information

Fame This link opens in a new window
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Detailed information about UK and Irish companies for the last 10 years, including publicly listed and private companies.
We are aware of an issue with Chrome and the Fame database. For now, we suggest using Edge or Firefox. If you still wish to use Chrome, please try the following steps:

1. In Chrome, enter chrome://flags/#use-sha1-server-handshakes in the address and press Enter
2. If Allow SHA-1 server signatures in TLS is set to disabled, change it to Default (if that doesn't work set it to enable)
3. Relaunch Chrome and try accessing it again
4. If it still does not work, change it to Allowed, relaunch Chrome and try again

You must log in with your SUSSED username and password both on campus and off campus. Fame can be used to research individual companies or find a group of companies that fit a specific profile and analyse them. Fame includes: Company financials, in detailed format, with up to 10 years of history; Financial strength indicators; Directors and contacts; Original filings/images as filed at Companies House and the Companies Registration Office in Ireland; Stock data for listed companies; Detailed corporate structures and the corporate family; Shareholders and subsidiaries; Industry research; Adverse filings; Business and company-related news; M&A deals and rumours

Search for disqualified company directors
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Links to freely available registers of disqualified company directors, provided by the UK Government.
Companies House service (beta/trial version)
A free database of UK registered companies provided by Companies House. Includes company overview, basic details for directors/officers, PDF versions of documents filed with Companies House and charges.
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For detailed information on UK companies and to download data for multiple companies, please use Fame. However, this database may sometimes be more up-to-date than Fame.

International Company Information

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
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WRDS provides access to a range of third party research data via a web interface. Data can also be downloaded directly from their server or via PC-SAS. You must register before you can use it.
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Most data is for the USA. For details, click on the green ? icon.

Fitch Ratings Pro This link opens in a new window
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Detailed information, including financial statements, ratios and credit ratings for over 30,000 banks worldwide. Data is available for the last 10 years. It also includes economic data and credit ratings for countries, and bonds and securities for banks. We do not have access to data for insurance companies. WORKS BEST IN GOOGLE CHROME
To sign in, please click on the SSO tab and use institution code 'UOS'
Up to 30 years of data is available via the Excel Add-in but this is complex to use. For details, click on the tutorial icon above.

Passport (Euromonitor International)
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Provides statistics and in depth reports on companies, industries and countries worldwide. Includes consumer trends, demographic data, socioeconomic data, macroeconomic data and global reports.

Financial Times This link opens in a new window
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The Financial Times website. Provides FT articles, in-depth 'Special Reports', facsimile of the newspaper from 2005 onwards, and company and financial information.
Please note: Creating an account is no longer necessary. If you have previously created an account you need to open this link in an incognito window, which will then take you directly to the sign-up page.
You will then be able to sign-up with their university login details.
http://ft.com/UniSouthampton copy and paste this link
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is an extensive statistics platform covering over 1.5 million data sets (and adding an additional 500 day) with revenue forecasts from 2015 to 2020 on over 400 industries. Data is collected from over 18,000 sources covering over 75,000 different topics. Further information
Refinitiv: Datastream, Workspace
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Financial and economic data for countries and companies worldwide, including equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives. The earliest data is from 1950. Only covers publicly listed companies.
For access to the Refinitv suite of products, please see https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/FinLab.
Please note - The University’s Eikon subscription has been migrated over to Workspace.
Bloomberg
To learn more about the resources provided by the FinLab Team, please visit the Financial Laboratory sharepoint site.
You can contact the FinLab team via finlab@soton.ac.uk
BoardEx This link opens in a new window
BoardEx is a business relationship mapping and executive insight platform for private and public organizations. It provides up-to-date biographical information on board members, C-suite executives, senior leaders and professional advisors, around the globe.
In addition to access to the BoardEx RCM Platform, we have access to corporate governance data in Excel format, including Director Profiles for North America, Director Profiles for the UK, Committee Detail for the UK and Board Summary for the UK. This data is automatically available to staff and research postgraduate students in the Southampton Business School. Others should request access by clicking on the Boardex link and then 'Apply to Group

Financial Data

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
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WRDS provides access to a range of third party research data via a web interface. Data can also be downloaded directly from their server or via PC-SAS. You must register before you can use it.
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Most data is for the USA. For details, click on the green ? icon.
OECD Institutional Investors Statistics, 1980-
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Annual and quarterly data at country level covering the level and structure of the financial assets of institutional investors (investment funds, insurance companies and pension funds) in the OECD countries, and in the Russian Federation.

Refinitiv: Datastream, Workspace
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Financial and economic data for countries and companies worldwide, including equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives. The earliest data is from 1950. Only covers publicly listed companies.
For access to the Refinitv suite of products, please see https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/FinLab.
Please note - The University’s Eikon subscription has been migrated over to Workspace.
CSMAR: China Stock Market & Accounting Research Database This link opens in a new window
Access to the following CSMAR content has expired both from CSMAR / us-gtadata.com AND via WRDS.
Analysts Forecasts • Cash and Stock • Dividends • Corporate Governance • Financial Statements Release Dates • Financial Statements • Funds Market Research • Initial Public Offering-A Shares • Institutional Investor Database • M&A and Asset Restructuring • Overseas Listed • Company Research Database • Seasoned Equity Offering • Shareholders • Stock Trading.
Access to CSMAR via us-gtadata.com (providing Related Party Transaction & Audit Research Database) ended on the 31/10/23.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

SDC
Historical datasets on M&A, M&A events, M&A advisors.
Access this via WRDS. Then select Thomson/Refinitiv > SDC.
N.B. our subscription does not provide access to SDC New Issues.

Corporate Governance

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
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WRDS provides access to a range of third party research data via a web interface. Data can also be downloaded directly from their server or via PC-SAS. You must register before you can use it.
more...less...
Most data is for the USA. For details, click on the green ? icon.

Search for disqualified company directors
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Links to freely available registers of disqualified company directors, provided by the UK Government.

BoardEx This link opens in a new window
BoardEx is a business relationship mapping and executive insight platform for private and public organizations. It provides up-to-date biographical information on board members, C-suite executives, senior leaders and professional advisors, around the globe.
In addition to access to the BoardEx RCM Platform, we have access to corporate governance data in Excel format, including Director Profiles for North America, Director Profiles for the UK, Committee Detail for the UK and Board Summary for the UK. This data is automatically available to staff and research postgraduate students in the Southampton Business School. Others should request access by clicking on the Boardex link and then 'Apply to Group

Corporate Social Responsibilty (CSR)

Fame includes details of UK and Irish company directors including name, age, gender and biography.

Fame This link opens in a new window
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Detailed information about UK and Irish companies for the last 10 years, including publicly listed and private companies.
We are aware of an issue with Chrome and the Fame database. For now, we suggest using Edge or Firefox. If you still wish to use Chrome, please try the following steps:

1. In Chrome, enter chrome://flags/#use-sha1-server-handshakes in the address and press Enter
2. If Allow SHA-1 server signatures in TLS is set to disabled, change it to Default (if that doesn't work set it to enable)
3. Relaunch Chrome and try accessing it again
4. If it still does not work, change it to Allowed, relaunch Chrome and try again

You must log in with your SUSSED username and password both on campus and off campus. Fame can be used to research individual companies or find a group of companies that fit a specific profile and analyse them. Fame includes: Company financials, in detailed format, with up to 10 years of history; Financial strength indicators; Directors and contacts; Original filings/images as filed at Companies House and the Companies Registration Office in Ireland; Stock data for listed companies; Detailed corporate structures and the corporate family; Shareholders and subsidiaries; Industry research; Adverse filings; Business and company-related news; M&A deals and rumours

These free websites also have useful information:

Corporate Critic (free data)
We do not have a subscription to this database but it includes some free data on corporate social responsibility including ethiscores.
Ethical Consumer
We do not have a subscription to this website but it includes some free information including ethical ratings for products and brands.

Data and Statistics: Company & Financial Information