Research Guides: Entrepreneurship: Lists of Companies

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To make a list of companies in an industry, you'll typically need an industry code. These are often NAICS codes.
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Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
Company directory database, powered by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). Includes profiles for public and private companies globally. Particularly useful for building a list of companies and for understanding parent/subsidiary relationships.

Mergent Intellect uses NAICS codes.
Learn this Search: List of Companies

PitchBook This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Especially useful for finding up-and-coming companies in emerging industries.

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Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Users must create an account with their UCI email address. Download limits apply.

The vendor of this resource may monitor, collect, store, and analyze Subscriber’s usage of the Services (“Subscriber’s Usage Data”) on both a Subscriber and individual User basis for the limited purposes of providing or improving the services.

Select from pre-made lists of companies > Learn this Search: Emerging Spaces
Generate custom lists using your own criteria > Learn this Search: Company Search

Uniworld This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Global company directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary. Find both U.S. firms operating in foreign countries, and foreign firms operating in the U.S. Searchable on criteria including: industry, employee count, and revenue.

Uniworld uses NAICS codes.
Learn this Search: List of Companies

S&P Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Company intelligence database, including granular financial and capital structure information on companies worldwide.

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Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Learn this Search: Company Pre-made Screens

GuideStar This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Database for nonprofit company intelligence, featuring current financial data, IRS forms, and visualizations of financial trends for nonprofits. Includes a directory to search for nonprofits by size, cause, and location, plus a directory to search for people in leadership roles at nonprofits.

Orange County Business Journal: Book of Lists
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The "Book of Lists" supplement issue is simply a compilation of all lists published by OCBJ during the previous year.
Fortune 500 Companies
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Geography: US & Global
This database includes Fortune magazine. This custom URL finds the issues with "Largest U.S. Corporations" in the title (i.e., what Fortune officially calls its Fortune 500 list).

Select PDF Full Text to explore inside the magazine.
Fortune magazine also breaks down the 500 by industry and by state.

S&P Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
A comprehensive company intelligence database, offering granular financial, executive, and activity information on millions of companies worldwide.

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Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

The Idea Generation Screens feature premade filters for 200+ company characteristics > Learn this Search: Company Pre-made Screens
Look up the name of an index (e.g., the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, etc.) to view and export the current (not historic) list of constituent companies > Learn this Search: Index

There are dozens of company lists, produced by many different entities.
This page only points to a select few of the most requested/relevant lists for the UCI community.
The INSEAD Libraries has an excellent compilation of many additional lists.

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