Company Information Online Research Guide

"Almost anything-and I mean anything-that a professional investor, hedge fund manager, mutual fund portfolio manager, or brokerage firm desk trader can do with his Quotron or Bridge Terminal and his $100,000+ research reports, can now be done by any individual with a personal computer."

- Christopher Byron, author of "Deleteyourbroker.com"

This is a pathfinder for researching free company information on the World Wide Web. This pathfinder is not meant to be complete and exhaustive but is meant to be used as a guide to navigate through the many different web sites that offer company data.

When searching for company information online it is important to ask the following questions:

1. Is the company publicly held?
2. Is the company privately held?
3. Has the company recently gone public or is currently privately held but in the process of becoming public through an Initial Public Offering (IPO)?
4. Is the company U.S. or foreign owned?

The answers to these questions will determine how much information is available and where it can be located. To begin searching for company information click on one of the above questions.