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Company Strategy


Company Strategy

 

S&P Capital IQ 
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Geography: Global 

A comprehensive company intelligence database, offering granular financial and capital structure information on millions of companies worldwide, including data and graphs for historic stock prices, including searchable SEC Filings.  

  • Look up a company >>  [left menu] News, Events, & Filings >> SEC Filings

 

Factiva
Access: UCI
Geography: Global 

Worldwide coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business news wires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, and business-rich websites.  The Expert Search function has pre-set search terms for competitive intelligence news about companies.  News is often one of the only sources for strategy on private companies.  Factiva's terms of use prohibit text mining, i.e. using any code or program (e.g. crawlers and APIs) to automatically retrieve or download large amounts of content.

 

Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: Global 

Covers virtually all business subjects.  News is often one of the only sources of strategy on private companies. 

  • Search first only by company name, and add more words as needed.  For ambiguous names, e.g. Apple, use:
    Select a Field (dropdown)  >  CO Company Entity.

 

More Company Strategy Resources
You can also make more educated guesses about a company's strategy by analyzing:

  • The type(s) & location(s) of its job postings
  • Its press releases 
  • patents it filed
  • companies it merges with or partners with
     

 

 

 Explainer:  Helpful SEC Filings

10-K The annual report submitted to the SEC for a US publicly traded company.  Here's how you read it
The 10-K/Q have the most detail about a company's finances; you won't find a more specific breakdown elsewhere.
10-Q The quarterly report submitted to the SEC for a US publicly traded company.
20-F The equivalent of a 10-K for a foreign company trading on a US exchange.
8-K A form submitted when a materially important event happens at a company, so shareholders know about it.  
DEF 14A The proxy statement, i.e. an annual definitive form submitted to shareholders before a meeting, with information about executives, board members, and issues on which shareholders can vote.  
13D or 13G This form is filed when a person or group acquires a 5% or greater stake in a public company. 
It may be useful in identifying activist investors.

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