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File Description [top]

Standard & Poor's Corporate Descriptions plus News provides comprehensive strategic and financial information and current news on approximately 12,000 publicly held companies. These firms trade securities on the New York, American and regional stock exchanges, the NASDAQ system, Over-the-Counter in the U.S., and on various exchanges in Canada and abroad. The file provides access to capitalization, corporate background and financial data includng annual report financials and recent interims. Annual financials include both "as reported" data as well as their standardized fielded elements, several of which can be used for financial screening purposes. In addition, key financial ratios are range searchable.

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Subject Coverage [top]

• Annual Report - audited Income Account
• Auditor information
• Bond descriptions, including S&P bond rating
• Capital expenditures
• Capitalization
• Company business description-including products/ services, principal markets, and sales/profit breakdown
• Company identifiers
• Corporate office address and telephone number
• Details of stock equity and offerings
• Details on American Depositary Receipts (ADR's)
• Digest of Earning and Finances - up to ten years
• Dividend payment history - up to ten years
• Fielded Annual Report Data
• Financial Ratios
• Incorporated history
• Management's Discussion
• Number of employees
• Officers and directors
• Primary and Secondary SIC codes
• Property and facility information
• Recent Financial Statements
• Recent news relating to events such as new stock offerings, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, management changes, and SEC registrations
• S&P Index indicator
• Shareholder information
• Stock prices - high/low - up to ten years
• Subsidiaries and affiliates-including percentage of ownership
• Transfer Agent and Registrar

Sources [top]

The sources used to obtain information for the database include the following representative items: annual and interim stockholder reports; press releases from a company or its independent public relations firm; 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K reports, registration statements and prospectuses filed with the SEC; filings with other regulatory bodies (FCC, FERC, ICC, etc.); wire service reports; leading newspapers; and releases from stock exchanges.

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Database Content [top]

• Directories
• Numeric Data

Document Types Indexed [top]

• SEC Filings

Geographic Coverage [top]

• US Only

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• REPORT Available
• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• REPORT Available

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Terms and Conditions [top]

These databases (the "Databases") are copyrighted by McGraw-Hill, Inc. Standard & Poor's ("S&P") is a division of McGraw-Hill, Inc. The Databases are provided for the customer's internal use only and may not be duplicated or redistributed in any manner without the prior written permission of S&P. However, redistribution within a customer's organization in a work group computing environment is permitted with respect to Standard & Poor's Daily News, Standard & Poor's Register - Biographical, and Standard & Poor's Register - Corporate only, provided customer retains the appropriate copyright notice on all materials. Because of the possibility of human or mechanical error by our sources or by S&P, neither S&P nor McGraw-Hill, Inc. guarantees the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of the Databases and is not responsible for any errors or omissions contained in such Databases. The customer acknowledges that its access to the Databases may be discontinued at any time in the event that S&P terminates its agreement with Dialog.

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

² Includes Business Description, Property, Capital Expenditures, Statistics, Investment Advisor, Custodian, Employees, and Company Addresses, when available.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

³ Numeric entries are indexed as complete numbers. Negative numbers appear with a negative sign. Use numeric operators (:,<,>,=, etc.) to search a range of values, e.g., S TA>5B to find companies with Total Assets over 5 billion.

⁴ Telephone numbers indexed to area code level only.

⁵ Present on records for banks only.

⁶ Percentages are rounded to one decimal position. All other ratios are rounded to three decimal positions.

⁷ Collection Point is stated in whole numbers.

⁸ When typing Display Only fields, add CO to include company name, e.g., TYPE S2/CO,BP/ALL.

⁹ If format requested does not include all data for that particular company, a shorter format will display at a lower price.

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Rates [top]

Rates For File: Standard & Poor's Corporate Descriptions plus News[133]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $6.63
Cost per minute:                   $2.75
Report Elements                    $1.00
Rank Elements                      $0.00

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REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

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