NetAdvantage

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Introduction | Accessing | Searching | Industry Surveys | Corporation Records | Stock Reports

Introduction

Standard and Poor's Net Advantage provides full text investor/business information including stock, bond, and mutual fund guides and reports; earnings and dividends reports; comprehensive company information; industry surveys for 52 major U.S. industries; and directories of companies, executives and security dealers. This lesson will explain how to find Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, and Stock Reports.

Accessing

This database may be accessed from the Electronic Resources Section of the Alvin Sherman Library website. After selecting NetAdvantage from the database list, the following opening screen will display: Opening screen

Searching

There are many various ways to search NetAdvantage, including an advanced search feature. This lesson on searching details how to perform three basic searches: an Industry Survey Search, a Corporation Record search, and a Stock Report Search. These three following sections demonstrate how to find this very useful information.

Industry Surveys What is an industry survey? An industry survey is an overview of the production and/or sales of a certain type of product or products within an economy. They include such things as: statistics, trends, ratios, profiles, and general descriptions of how an industry operates. To find industry surveys in NetAdvantage, under the S & P Publication Search heading, select from the drop-down menus. Locating Industry Surveys To review a particular industry survey, click on the down arrow in the drop-down menu and select the desired industy. Selecting an Industry Survey Printing Click Printer Friendly in the upper right hand to print the entire document. Search Results Screen Corporation Records Corporation records are documents that contain specific data for a company. These records can cover a variety of material like the corporations background, earnings, financial data, officers, new, stock information, subsidiaries, and much more.   Searching To search for Corporation Records, return to the opening screen by clicking Home in the top blue navigation bar. Find the Simple Search box on the right hand side of the screen. Under Resources, click on the down arrow in the drop-down menu and select Corporation Records as shown below. Under Search by, click on the down arrow in the drop-down menu and select Ticker or Company Name, then in the box under Enter, enter the ticker or company name. Click the yellow arrow to search. Finding corporate records Search Results The screen displaying Corporation Records will display and the left hand navigation bar can be used to view different types of information such as stock reports on the selected company. Stock Reports From the home page of NetAdvantage screen go to the Simple Search Box. Finding Stock Reports Searching Choose to search by Stock Reports with the drop-down menu. In the Search By area select Company Name or Ticker. Next, in the Enter box type in the appropriate Company Name or Ticker Click the yellow arrow to start searching Finding Stock Reports Reports in HTML To view stock reports in HTML format, from the left-hand column select the HTML link. Stock Reports in HTML Format Reports in .PDF [an error occurred while processing this directive] Return to the left hand menu. This time select PDF. The document will open in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Use the Acrobat Reader toolbar to save or print your document. Stock Reports displayed PDF Format