Locating Company Analyst Reports

Company analyst reports in Investext typically provide information on the description of activities, divisional information, assessments of performance, financial summaries, share price histories, forecasts, and product development.

The search below is demonstrated using DialogWeb 2.5. You will have a chance to try searching DialogWeb on your own for the practice exercises at the end of the lesson.

To see a movie of the logon procedure, click here.

Let's begin our search.

Click the Command Summary icon to see a summary of the commands we will use for this search.

First, we enter our BEGIN statement and add the CURRENT command so that we automatically restrict the search at the beginning to the current year, plus one back year. The command in the command text box looks like this:

BEGIN 745 CURRENT
Click the button to execute the search.

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Command Summary

Company Analyst Report: Sample Search

?begin 745 current
?select alcoa/co and sf=company and py=2010
?type s1/8/1-10

Learn More #1:

CURRENT is used to narrow a search to records from the most current year(s) within a file. Include CURRENT with a BEGIN command when searching a single or multiple files. For example, BEGIN 16 CURRENT retrieves records added to this file during the current calendar year plus one year back.

Other CURRENT options for broader applications include:

CURRENT or CURRENT1	=	current year + 1 back year
CURRENT2	=	current year + 2 back years
CURRENT3	=	current year + 3 back years
CURRENT4	=	current year + 4 back years
CURRENT5	=	current year + 5 back years

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