COMPANY INFORMATION

Compiled October 8, 1997

Updated November 17, 1998

Includes links to STOCK CHARTS and EDGAR FILINGS

FORBES ANNUAL REPORT ON AMERICAN INDUSTRY Cover 1,280 companies in 20 different industries. The data can be viewed from several different angles:

• Alphabetical by Company
• Index by Industry
• Listing by Stock Market Rank (1-1280)
• Listing by EPS Rank (1-1280)
• Listing by ROC Rank (1-1280)
• Listing by Sales Rank (1-1280)

Wall Street Research Net

http://www.wsrn.com/

Wall Street Research Net is the most comprehensive resource for investors on the Web, mobilizing the best free, for-sale, and in-depth information into one comprehensive, easy-to-use site. Use Research A Company to access SEC documents, home pages, news, charts, statistical analysis and more. Thousands of research reports, BASELINE reports and spreadsheets are available to users of WSRNPlus. You can Research the Economy, locate your favorite broker and perform sophisticated stock screening.

Bar charts of selected data are both available and very useful. An example is the chart for Earnings Per Share of Microsoft:

BigCharts - About

http://www.bigcharts.com/docs/about.asp

BigCharts - Interactive Financial Charts, Quotes and Reports!

http://www.bigcharts.com
Enter a company name or ticker symbol (MSFT for Microsoft). Quite nearby is a small window with a little black down arrow; click here and you can choose 1 month, 2 months, ..., 1year, YTD (year to date), 5 years, all data. Click "Quick Chart" and the grap h will appear.
Do a right mouse click on the graph and you can view the image. Look at the LOCATION window and you'll see its complete URL. Bookmark it. Then Go to Bookmarks, highlight the new bookmark, click Item, then click Properties. Highlight the URL showing in the Location window, do a right mouse click, choose Copy. Point mouse inside the Description box, do another right mouse click and choose paste. The (very) long URL will appear. Click
GIF image 528x300 pixels (below) to see the graph. Has Link to10Ks and 10Qs.

>GIF image 528x300 pixels (Graph of Microsoft)

http://www.bigcharts.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=msft&qchart.x=61&qchart.y=16 Next to the "Quick Chart" button, there is an "Interactive Chart" button.

Click it. In the left-most frame:
(1) click "time frame." Can choose from 1 month,...,1 year,...1 decade, All Data. Choose 5 years.
(2) Click "Frequency." Can choose daily, monthly, quarterly, yearly. Choose monthly.
(3) Click "compare to." Under "index," you can choose S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQ, All. Choose NASDAQ.
(4) Click "indicators." Can Coose none, SMA (Smoothed Moving Average),..., EMA (Exponential Moving Average). Choose SMA.
(5) Click "upper indicator." <any choices available. Choose "Show All Events."
(6) Click "lower indicator." Many choices. Choose "Momentum."
(7) Click "chart style." From Small, Medium, Large, choose "Large."
(8) Click the red "draw chart" button.

Again, you can save this graph ("GIF image 591x420 pixels"; see below) as a bookmark and can copy its URL in the Description Box.

http://chart1.bigcharts.com:80/chart?time=12&freq=3&uf=7168&lf=1&type=2&style=1&size=3&comp=&state=0&trans=0&symb=msft&r=chart&compidx=nasdaq%3A3291&ma=1&maval=9&sid=3140&sec=c&xyz=423012511&s=21914

OTHER GOOD SOURCES OF INFORMATION

1. Hoover's Online

   Has Link to Annual Reports and SEC form 10K

2. NETWORTH.COM

   Has access to Company News

3. EDGAR Search Page

   EDGAR is the government Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system. Has some filings by foreign companies.

4. STOCKCENTER.COM

   Has EDGAR access.

Some of these sites, although free, require that you register which means that you choose a username and password.

COMPANY INFORMATION VIA SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES

CNN Financial News

http://cnnfn.com/search/

Sources include CNNfn (mostly) and Reuters (a few). A search on Microsoft Corp produced 203 results. Can be sorted by Date or by Relevance.

Excite NewsTracker

http://nt.excite.com

A wide variety of news sources, such as PR Newswire, ABC News, Reuters, PC Week, Business Wire, and online newspapers. Can "View by Publication" and "View by Date." The number of results is not provided.

HotBot's NewBot News

http://www.wired.com/newbot

Can limit search to "past 6 hours" down to "past 7 days" and "whenever." News sources include both news wires and online publications. A "whenever" search on Microsoft Corp produced 22 results.

CBS MarketWatch

http://cbs.marketwatch.com

Dozens of clickable links:

News:

News Index NewsWatch Headlines London Calling Internet Daily Earnings Surprises Silicon Stocks Legal Options Software Report StockWatch Tech Report Screamers Movers & Shakers • Much more...

Commentary

Thom's StockWatch Erdman's World Cedd Moses Irwin Kellner Bazdarich on Bonds Cappiello's Take Capitol Report OptionsWatch Deep Pockets NouveauGeek Sports Sidelines Zapman! Marder on Markets • Much more...

IPO Coverage

Daily Report Pick of the week Commentary First Words This Week Recent Filings After Market ABCs of IPOs

LINK TO STOCK MARKET INDICATORS

LINK TO "HOW TO USE INTERACTIVE STOCK GRAPHS: AN INTRODUCTION"

LINK TO "STOCK MARKET INDICATORS: DEFINITIONS"

Compiled by Prof. Richard Einer Peterson
College of Business Administration
University of Hawaii
email to rpeterso@hawaii.edu

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