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Authorized Affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password, i.e. current UCI students, faculty, and staff.

 


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Analyst Reports and Earnings Call Transcripts

 

Analyst Reports

 

Investext (via Mergent Online)
Access: UCI

Geography: Global

This replaces the Thomson ONE database.  Investext (i.e., the Thomson Reuters Embargoed Research Collection) offers analyst research reports from more than 1,700 brokerages, investments banks and independent research firms globally.  Coverage dates as far back as 1982.   

  • Learn this search!  < How to find analyst reports in Investext. (Please refresh if the content doesn't load after a few seconds.)
     
  • Reports are typically embargoed for 14 days prior to being made available.  
Firms that are or are not included
Prominent firms included* Prominent firms not included*
BMO Capital Markets Barclays
Credit Suisse BofA
Deutsche Bank BNP Paribas
Evercore  Goldman Sachs
HSBC Jefferies Group
JPMorgan Lazard
Nomura Merrill Lynch
RBC Capital Markets Mizuho
UBS AG Moody′s
Wells Fargo Securities  Morgan Stanley
* Lists are subject to change without notice. Morningstar

 

Value Line
Access: UCI

Geography: US

Stock reports on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.  Spans most recent 13 weeks. 

 

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.  While the UCI Libraries' do not subscribe to S&P's Aftermarket Research analyst reports product, Capital IQ has consensus data of analyst estimates for earnings, back to 1999.

  • Look up a company >> Estimates [left menu] >> CIQ Estimates.  

 

The Wall Street Transcript (TWST)
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Via the Business Source Complete database.  TWST Publishes bi-weekly industry reports that feature equity analyst, money manager and CEO interviews.
 

 

Earnings Call Transcripts

 

Because of Regulation Fair Disclosure (effective Oct. 23, 2000) during quarterly conference calls, public companies often disclose their past quarter's performance, and they usually discuss their future outlook/initiatives.  These calls are often transcribed, and they are known as Earnings Conference Calls or Analyst Calls.  In addition to the databases below, transcripts or recordings are often made available on the Investor Relations page of the company's website.  

 

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, searchable SEC filings, mergers & acquisitions activities, and venture capital/private equity data.  Most Earnings Conference Calls feature the recorded audio.  

 

Investext (via Mergent Online)
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

This replaces the Thomson ONE database.  Investext, i.e. the Thomson Reuters Embargoed Research Collection, offers analyst research reports from more than 1,700 brokerages, investments banks and independent research firms globally.  Includes earnings conference call transcripts from Thomson Reuters StreetEvents.  

 

Factiva
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Worldwide coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business news wires, press release wires, etc.  The Search Builder page allows for choosing a publication called CQ FD Wire, as well as a company name.  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.

Tip

Analyzing Analyst Recommendations 
Access: Public
This
guide from the SEC explains how to interpret recommendations in analyst reports. 

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