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Business Research: Finding Company Information

This guide provides an overview of how to conduct detailed company research..

Finding Annual Reports

Annual reports will include an overview and discussion of the company's financial performance during the previous year and provides information about plans for the company's future direction. Publicly held corporations provide annual reports to investors at the end of each financial year. 

From:  https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/accounting/annual-report/

Finding Annual Reports on the Free Web

Company Web sites 

You can often find a company's annual reports on the company's website. Annual reports can generally be found in the area of the company's website that contains information for investors.

Search Engines

You may also be able to find a company's annual report by using using a search engine such as Google, Duck Duck Go,  or Bing and searching for the company's name and the phrase annual report.

       Example:   Pantagonia "annual report"

EDGAR

Note: With the exception of investment companies, companies are not required to file their annual reports with EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But companies are required to file Form 10-K or 10-KSB, and these forms contain much of the same information as annual reports.

Search EDGAR (see search tips).

Finding Annual Reports

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