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Brief Description: Investext provides access to investment research reports that are written by analysts at investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms who closely follow particular companies or industries.

Access Restrictions: Students, Faculty, Staff, and Walk-In Alumni and Visitors may use.

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Basic Steps
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To limit your search to only industry reports, type INDUSTRY REPORT in the keyword box and your industry terms: industry report and wireless.

Also, to limit the number of company reports generated to those with more substantial page counts, type INITIATING in the keyword box.

Some Investext data and reports are available in a textual format (sans images, charts, and graphs) within: InfoTrac General Business File  

1. Click on the Proceed button.
2. Click on Advanced Search in the left side bar.
3. Click on the [Investext] link.
4. On the Select index scroll down menu, select your search field and then type in what you are searching for in the search box.
5. Click on the Search button.
6. Your results will be indicated at the bottom under History. Click View or Modify.

Investext Plus provides additional content, visuals, and PDF formats which are often not converted to the InfoTrac General Business File version.

1. Documents can be very long.  An electronic copy is usually easier to deal with than the paper copy.  Save to the k:temp drive to keep to work with later.
2. If the database freezed while you are trying to pull up a long document, right click on the 30 pages PDF and click on Save Target as... and save the document locally, then open it up from the saved copy.
3. Whenever printing out selected pages to work with, be sure to print the first page for citation purposes.

Investext provides access to investment research reports that are written by analysts at investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms who closely follow particular companies or industries. Great for tracking down information on global industries, market sectors, and performance of corporate subsidiaries and divisions. The reports contain information from a variety of sources: one-on-one interviews, annual reports, SEC filings, business and trade press, close relationships with company management, mergers and acquisitions data, government and industry sources and proprietary market studies. Also, some firms offer sales and earnings forecasts on companies.

They also provide in-depth financial analyses and assessments of management/marketing strategies and provide expert opinions and forecasts.

Investext Plus includes some of the world's most sought-after investment research and industry analysis, over 400,000 reports from 1982 onward. The reports, provided in PDF format, come from over 500 investment banks and 190 trade associations as well as fundamental financial information from Moody's Investors Service.

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