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. The information is gathered from the following sources: S&P publications: Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The OUTLOOK, Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Security Dealers of North America, Stock Guide, and Stock Reports. This lesson will explain how to find Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, and Stock Reports.

Accessing

This database may be accessed from the Databases page of the Electronic Resources section of the NSU Alvin Sherman Library website. For more on how to access databases visit http://www.nova.edu/library/dils/lessons/electroniclibrary/ After choosing NetAdvantage from the list of Databases by Subject, Business section, the following opening screen will display: Opening screen of NetAdvantage.

Searching

There are many various ways to search Standard and Poor's 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, find the Tool Box menu on the right hand side of the NetAdvantage opening screen. "Tool Box" for searching NetAdvantage Industry Surveys. To select a particular industry survey, click on the down arrow in the drop-down menu and select the desired industy. Choosing an Industry Survey from the drop-down menu. Printing Click Printer Friendly in the upper right hand to print the entire document. Search Results screen an Industry Search in NetAdvantage. 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 Publication Search box on the right hand side of the screen. Under Select publication, 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. Try searching for Ford Motor Company, ticker symbol F. Finding corporation records in NetAdvantage. 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 Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage screen go to the Publication Search Box. Finding Stock Reports in NetAdvantage. 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 in NetAdvantage. Reports in HTML To change views or to see different information choose from one of the following categories under Stock Reports on the left hand menu. For this lesson choose Stock Report (HTML) under the heading "Stock Reports". Use the text Printer Friendly in the upper right hand corner to print the document. Stock Report results for Ford Motor Company in HTML from NetAdvantage. Reports in .PDF Return to the left hand menu. This time choose PDF. The document will open in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Use the Acrobat Reader toolbar to save or print your document. Choices for Stock Reports display in .PDF from NetAdvantage. .