The Emory community has access to a wealth of business research databases. This series highlights many of these great resources, including content and the best applications for classes and career prep.
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) NetAdvantage
What You Will Find
Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage is a robust tool for exploring companies and industries. You can easily navigate to over fifty industry profiles that provide high level benchmarks for industry performance, information about operations, opportunities, challenges, and risks in the industry, and profiles of key competitors. You can also find Stock Reports with over 10 years of financials for U.S publicly traded companies. Finally, the company screening tool includes over thirty filtering criteria including industry, revenue, and keywords in the business description.
Use for Class Projects
As a business student, many of your projects require an understanding of specific industries and knowledge about company financial performance. Reports and screening tools from Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage can help you understand the historical performance of high level industries as well as trends and challenges that will shape their future. It’s a great place to screen for companies, including global, foreign, and privately held companies, within niche business segments or serving specific industries by searching for keywords in the business description.
Use for Interview Prep
Interviewers are looking for candidates who have taken the time to familiarize themselves with the industry in which they operate. Beyond identifying the services and products, industry profiles from S&P NetAdvantage will give you insights about the challenges, trends, regulatory environments, and risks the industry is facing, which can help you prepare compelling questions for your interview. You can also use the screening tool to find target companies for your job search within a certain geography, industry, business segment, or company size.
Additional Business Research Resources
You can also use the Business Research Guide to locate additional business resources, locate tips for how to use them, and understand which are best for your specific research needs.