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Where can I find bond credit ratings for a particular company?

Bond credit ratings are available from several of the databases we subscribe to.

ThomsonONE.com

For S&P, Moody and Fitch ratings on bond issues, use Thomson ONE.com. You can look for one company at a time.

Bonds deals in ThomsonONE.com

ThomsonONE.com: 1 Select company. 2 Choose Company Views > Deals. 3 Change filter to Product: Bonds. 4 Scroll to Deal Statistics.

Alternatively use Screening & Analsysis to look for multiple companies. Include datatypes SP, MDY, FITCH (all have descriptions Ratings…) in your report.

Bonds deals analysis - ThomsonONE.com

ThomsonONE.com: Go to Screening & Analysis > Deals & League Tables > Bonds > Advanced Search. Build your search and add

Thomson Research

Fitch ratings are available on Thomson Research. Select Fitch Ratings as contributor.

Thomson Research Fitch Reports

Thomson Research: search for Contributor: Fitch Reports.

Factiva Moody's reportsFactiva

Moody’s Investors Service reports are available on Factiva. Search for Moody as source, with company name or upgrade/downgrade in text.

Others

As with Thomson ONE.com, credit ratings are available on Datastream by searching for a company’s bonds and then selecting the relevant datatypes. A similar approach can be taken with Capital IQ.

Note: What is a Corporate Credit rating?

Profit warnings (business news)

30 September 2014 1 comment

Tesco features heavily in the current business news following a recent profit warning. The library’s business databases are very valuable if you want to research this in more detail.

Dow Jones Factiva is a business news database that covers a wide range of newspapers and trade journals. The news articles are indexed to make it easier to locate the information you need.

The screenshot below shows results for the following search criteria:

  • Company – Tesco PLC
  • Subject – Profit Warnings
  • Date – In the last 3 months

Note that you can scroll down the left hand column to get useful summaries of the results.

Factiva - Tesco news (click to expand)

Factiva – Tesco news (click to expand)

This search does not give the Tesco profit warning. It gives all the news articles about a profit warning that also mention Tesco PLC within the article. There have been several articles about the profit warning in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, …

Selecting an specific source, for example Financial Times, is a useful way of restricting your search results to a more manageable number from the original 471 (193 eliminating duplicates). In this example it is then easy to identify that Tesco PLC issued its profit warning on Friday 29 August 2014.

We now expect trading profit for 2014/15 to be in the range of £2.4bn to £2.5bn. Trading profit for the six months ending 23 August 2014 is expected to be in the region of £1.1bn. (Tesco PLC, 2014)

This “Trading Statement” – note that Tesco does not issue a statement that uses the term “profit warning” – is available on official RNS news from the London Stock Exchange (see LSE – News and Events – RNS). It is also available from the  PI Navigator database.

PI Navigator is a specialist database covering global company filings (e.g. annual reports, IPO propectuses, news announcements, mergers and acquistions)

The following screenshot shows results for the search criteria:

  • Company – Tesco PLC
  • Classification – Trading and Operating Updates
  • Issue Date – After 30 June 2104 (3 months)
PI Navigator - Tesco trading updates (click to expand)

PI Navigator – Tesco trading updates (click to expand)

Note that in PI Navigator it is not possible to search for profit warnings – you have to search for all the market sensitive trading updates that have been released by the company. On the plus side it is quick and easy to find the Tesco PLC Trading Statement of 29 August 2014, and the later trading update about profits for the six months to August 2014 being overstated by an estimates £250m.

References

Tesco PLC (2014) “Tesco PLC – TSCO Trading Statement Released 07:00 29-Aug-2014”, Available at http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/12066364.html, (Accessed 30 September 2014).

Searching Financial Times for company news stories

29 November 2013 Leave a comment

A couple of students reported problems searching for company news stories that have appeared in the Financial Times.

The University of Manchester Library has several options for searching Financial Times (FT) stories:

Factiva from Dow Jones covers a wide range of business news sources so it is a great choice if you want to extend your search to include other sources.

Example search:

Factiva searching Ford news in FT (click to expand)

Factiva searching Ford news in FT (click to expand)

  1. Find and select source Financial Times (Available to Academic Subscribers only)
  2. Find and select company Ford Motor Company 
  3. Select Date All Dates
  4. Additional search text – strateg* and wc>500 [optional – see Factiva – more search options (July 2010)]
  5. Search and browse your results, refine search parameters as necessary

Further useful Factiva tips

ABI Inform from ProQuest  is one of the most comprehensive business databases providing access to academic journal articles, trade journal articles as well as the Financial Times.

ABI Inform - Ford news in FT (click to expand)

ABI Inform – Ford news in FT (click to expand)

Example search:

  1. Select Publications and then search for Financial Times
  2. Select Financial Times and scroll down to search within this publication
  3. Try search “ford strategy” – 2528 search results on 29 November 2013
  4. Browse the results – sort results by relevance means headlines including ford and strategy are at the top of the results – refine search as needed

Previous post – A new look for ABI Inform (July 2011)

The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers news stories as they appeared in the paper. Every item ever printed in the daily business newspaper, from 1888-2009, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.

 

Best business and management databases

27 September 2013 Leave a comment

The Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) Library recently published a blog post “Top 5 best databases” to highlight their most popular premium databases. It is a great list if you are interested in exploring key University of Manchester database with just a little adjustment to account for differing subscriptions.

For a fuller list of databases available at University of Manchester browse the business and management pages (LibGuides).

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You might also be interested in our getting started guides.

[Medal image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danjc003/1876117737/]

Factiva – using company and source codes

3 September 2013 2 comments

Dow Jones FactivaGet more accurate search results in Dow Jones Factiva by using a company code rather than just putting the company name in the free text search box.

You can select the company search option, search by name, and click on the name in the company results list. In this case the company code is used but it is not visible on your search screen.

To see the company code – as before select the company search option and search by name but then select the blue pyramid add icon, This will add the company code into the free text search box in the format “fds=mks”, where mks is the company code for Marks and Spencer PLC.

It is exactly the same if you want to use codes for sources – for example “rst=ftft”, where ftft is the source code for the Financial Times. If you select the information icon then a popup window will give the details of the company/source including its code.

Factiva adding company code (click to expand)

Factiva adding company code (click to expand)

In the screenshot above the source code for the Financial Times (rst=ftft) has already been added to the free text search box. Selecting the add icon will add the company code for Tesco PLC (fds=tsco). You can complete the search by adding the connector, e.g. “rst=ftft AND fds=tsco”, and then click the search button to get your results.

One advantage of using explicit search codes is that you can easily save a copy for your search to reuse at a later date.

Further Factiva tips

“Factiva” and “Researching Business News” guides from the business and management guides page.

Our factiva tagged posts – showing the range of research where Factiva can be useful.

Factiva has a YouTube channel www.youtube.com/factiva (this may include features not available on the University of Manchester academic subscription).

Browsing Business News – for free

11 November 2012 3 comments

Students and staff can make use of University of Manchester Library resources to browse recent news.

Dow Jones FactivaFactiva (from Dow Jones) has a News Pages tab that offers simple access to top newspapers worldwide (most recent two weeks).

Select Global from the drop-down list and you get: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Australian, The Times and scmp.com (South China Morning Post).

Select United Kingdom and you get: The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal (Europe) and The Economist.

Factiva News Pages

Factiva News Pages (click to expand)

Note: Factiva provides News Pages in several languages in addition to english.

Factiva does include access to The Financial Times but not through the News Pages – you have to use the Search tab and select The Financial Times as your source.

BloombergBloomberg Professionalis an excellent source of financial market news. Useful news functions include:

  • TOP <GO> – Today’s top news stories
  • READ <GO> – Most read news
  • N <GO> – Main news menu
  • NSE <GO> – News search engine
  • NRR <GO> – News readership rankings

For a list of news databases goto the Business and Management databases page and scroll down to the Databases: Business News section.

Researching a UK company – reports and data

22 October 2012 2 comments

What resources are available for researching FirstGroup plc? (who among other things run many of the buses in north Manchester)

Free online resources:

Library subscribed resources:

  • Marketline Company Profile FirstGroup plc from Business Source Premier – 24 pages including key facts, business description, history, key employees, revenue analysis, SWOT analysis
  • GlobalData FirstGroup plc (FGP) – Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review July 2012 – an analyst report from Thomson Research – 26 pages – About the company, Company Analysis (including SWOT), Company Financial Ratios, and details of GlobalData and their analysis methodology.
  • Key Note Bus & Coach Operators Market Report 2012 from KeyNote – a market research report including a profile of FirstGroup as a key company. (Other KeyNote market reports include Rail Travel 2011 and KeyNote company information provides five years of company accounts.)
  • 7 Economist articles (since 2001) and over 500 Financial Times articles – both from ABI/Inform (Proquest) .
  • 10 years of FirstGroup accounts through Fame – a database based on accounts filed at UK Companies House with additional information on shareholders and subsidiaries.

In summary, the library subscribed resources provide access to reports that would be expensive to buy (investment analysts and market research reports) and databases that provide more flexible search and download facilities than free online resources.

If the above library resources are not enough, there are plenty more:

  • Thomson Research has a total of 256 analyst reports on FirstGroup plc published in the last 2 years. These are valuable reports and not easily found with a google search – see Analysts reports on Thomson Research.
  • Factiva has 2,176 news stories from the last 6 months – including over 100 from the Financial Times.
    Dow Jones Company Report FirstGroup plc – from Factiva – 15 pages – company overview and financials (balance sheet, cash flow and income statement) for last 5 years.
  • Thomson One Banker provides financial market information: overview, prices, financials, estimates, deals (e.g mergers and acquisitions), ownership and comparables.
  • ORBIS is similar to Fame except that it covers the largest 230,000 companies worldwide (Fame is UK and Ireland only) so you can compare FirstGroup with similar companies worldwide.
  • Bloomberg Professional provides financial market information and  business news – the DES (description) function provides a brief overview report.

This post applies advice from previous posts to a specific company: How to Research UK Company Data, Company Financial Analysis (Global Companies), and How to Research Global Company Data.
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