Find Pharmaceutical Sales and Revenue Forecasts?
TOPIC: INVESTEXT® PDF Fulltext (File 745) is an index to company, industry, and geographic research reports written by analysts at more than 600 leading investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms worldwide. Records containing citations to reports are put online as soon as the reports are received by Investext and are available in PDF format; the citation records are updated a few days later with the full Table of Contents.
Investext provides in-depth analysis and data on approximately 60,000 publicly traded companies, including sales and earnings forecasts, market share projections and research and development expenditures. Other Investext reports analyze specific industries/products and businesses in geographic regions. The reports are particularly useful for market research, strategic planning, competitive analysis, and financial forecasting.
TableBase database contains tabular information dealing with companies, products, industries, brands, markets, demographics, and countries from around the world. All records contain a table and the originating textual article when available. The table is the focus of this database. Every table is enhanced with an informative table title and indexing for easy retrieval. Indexing is drawn from File 9, Business & Industry.
In this exercise you will search for a pharmaceutical company in INVESTEXT and look for analysts’ reports covering sales and forecasts in therapeutic areas.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 745
SELECT SALES AND (FORECAST? OR OUTLOOK OR PROJECTION?)
VISUAL EXPAND CO=LILLY
Check appropriate entries and click Select
VISUAL EXPAND CO=ELI LILLY
Check appropriate entries and click Select
SELECT S1 AND S2:S3
SELECT S4 AND (ANTIDEPRESS? OR DEPRESS?)
Click Links > Display > Type Full Record
Click page link
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN File 745 to search INVESTEX® PDF Fulltext
2. SELECT terms for sales AND concepts related to forecasts OR outlook OR projection.
Be sure to nest synonyms in parentheses when combining with other criteria.
This statement means that every record retrieved must have the term “sales” AND at least one of the terms “forecast” or “outlook” or “projection.” Use truncation with the question mark “?” where appropriate.
Note: In TableBase search for sales and forecasts as descriptors (/DE).
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3. VISUAL EXPAND on the Company Name (CO=) field.
4. Check the appropriate entries and click the Select button.
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5. VISUAL EXPAND on alternative company names. For companies it is always a good idea to try a variety of names.
6. Check the appropriate entries and click the Select button. |
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7. SELECT the results from Set 1 (S1) and the company names from Sets 2 and 3 ORed together. The colon acts as OR.
8. Combine the results of Set 4 (S4) with terms related to a major therapeutic area.
Note: In TableBase combine with the Product Code (PC=) number for pharmaceuticals (PC=2834) and Publication Year(s) (PY=). |
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9. Click Links at the top of the record > Display > Type Full Record to see the Table of Contents.
Notice that the Record Type (RT=) is CONTENTS. This means the record contains a Table of Contents, which provides hyperlinks to specific pages of the report.
10. Click the hyperlink to a specific page of interest. Alternatively, an option appears that allows you to hyperlink to the full report. Cost of the full report is determined by the number of pages in the report.
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