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Obtaining a PDF Analyst Report About a Company

A good technique for identifying competitors is to know how outside observers position your company. Analyst reports, such as those found in Investext^®, provide critical unbiased insight into how your company is viewed by its particular industry. These reports are excellent sources of in-depth analyses on your company's revenue performance, its market and competition, and its future prospects.

Using the new Investext^® PDF Index on DialogSelect™, you can retrieve these investment reports as PDF documents quickly and easily, including any charts, graphs, and tables. Just follow these easy steps.

Search Example: Look for the most current company report on the Kellogg Company. Retrieve a report comparing its financials for the last two years.

Note: If you have not used DialogSelect before, you may not be aware that your DialogClassic user ID and password also work on DialogSelect.

Step 1 Choose DialogBusiness from the list of vertical segments on the DialogSelect main screen. Next, select Business Research and Investment Research from the hierarchical list (see Figure 1).

Step 2 Click "By Company" and enter Kellogg, the name of the company you are searching for, in the company name box (see Figure 2). Make sure that "PDF format" is selected to retrieve PDF output only; then click the Search button. A title list of company reports appears with the most current report at the top of the list.

Note: To view PDF documents, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader (available free from Adobe) installed on your computer. Click the link to download the Reader.

Step 3 In order to view the table(s) of contents for a report(s), click the checkboxes or title links to select one or more reports. Then, click the Display Checked button. An example is shown in Figure 3. There is no charge for viewing the PDF tables of contents.

A table of contents appears identifying the contents of each page in the report. The total report cost and the cost per page are displayed on this page (see Figure 4).

Step 4 Click on either the Complete PDF Report link or on an individual report page link. The Adobe Acrobat Reader will open and display the report in the browser. Save or print out the report page(s) displayed (see Figure 5).

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