This page contains links that the author has collected for the purpose of
equity research. These links are biased to the UK markets.
These links are divided into the following categories :-
There are at least the following lists of company web pages. Note than any
or all may well have been overtaken by events, and be less than current, so it
may be worth trying more than one.
- The author's List of Company Web Pages: home, investor
relations and news web pages for London and Dublin quoted companies, including
AIM and OFEX listed companies, and those companies which have their primary
listing on other exchanges, and also EASDAQ quoted companies.
- Investor-relations.co.uk: Requires JavaScript.
Thorough alphabetical listing of company web sites, with icons indicating what
type of investor information is available on the site.
- The EASDAQ site gives
links to the web sites of companies traded on that exchange.
- The OFEX site
gives links to the web sites of companies traded on that exchange.
- iTruffle.com: links
to smaller (small cap, fledgeling and AIM) company web sites. The links are
hidden behind forms and redirectors so it's not possible to tell how complete a
list this is, but it looks promising.
- The Investment Center at ITC Communications: another
listing of company web pages; international scope.
- Peter
Temple's "linksite": another site listing company web pages (FTSE
500, EASDAQ, DAX, CAC and Eurotop), amongst other links. Can be accessed from
The NEW Online
Investor
- Plc Sites: another
site listing company web sites. Requires JavaScript. Also has
investment, news and search links.
- PLC
Websites at Market Chat
- Company Sites at Sharegames
- UK Company Web Site
Addresses
- Links to web pages of
FTSE-100 and
FTSE-250 companies at Digital Look.
Not all companies have web pages, but if none of the above provide a link
for the company of interest, a link might be found at Wrights'
Investor Services or
The
FT Company Briefs. If all else fails guesswork, or a
search engine, can be used to attempt
to locate the company's web page.
World Investor Link operates a service which provides free printed or PDF
copies of the annual and interim reports of some companies. These can be
ordered online from the
Financial Times Annual Reports Club, from
Equities Direct at
Hemmington Scott, from Sharepages, and from several other sites. If you accept the
cookies offered by these sites it is not necessary to enter your address
every time you order. (It may also be necessary to allow JavaScript to
run.)
An overlapping set of company reports can be read, downloaded or ordered at
company web sites. My list of company web sites facilitates following
this line of inquiry.
Finally some copies of company reports can be read free of charge at
Company Annual Reports On-Line (requires
JavaScript), and on a pay-per-view basis at
Corporate Reports.
Analysts' (or brokers') estimates can be found on
Equities
Direct (consensus) and the
Financial Times Annual Reports Club (individual estimates).
Individual brokers estimates can be also obtained from
HemScott.net, provided
that you use them as your ISP.
Some investors take purchases and sales of a company's shares by its
directors as an important investment signpost. However historical analysis has
not demonstrated that this is an effective criterion for basing investment
decisions on. Records of directors dealings can be obtained from
HemScott.net, provided
that you use them as your ISP.
- Citywatch:
Information on directors' and other significant share dealings. News from the
fund management industry. Only the latter is available to non-subscribers, and
even this has the historical records eliminated.
Corporate performance figures for UK companies can be found at
Corporate performance figures for overseas companies can be found at
Indexes
- Research
Index: Index of business press stories (title and source only, not
contents)
- Financial Times: Provides a search facility of
the last 30 days FT's, which is useful for checking news on stocks. Also daily
general/business news with updated bulletins through the day; major stock
market indices updated during the day with a thirty minute delay; daily closing
share prices for UK and other major markets, major movers calculated for market
or sector, with basic stock data (yield, PER, div, earnings, sales, year
high/low); daily valuation of UK Unit Trusts, pensions life insurance funds,
and offshore funds; daily reports on most major stock markets; regular;
editorial, comment, analysis; diary of the forthcoming week's world
political/economic/business/financial events; articles on economics and
personal finance; weekly summary of main news stories available by e-mail;
search facility on articles.
- The
Guardian
- The
Independent: UK broadsheet
- The Times:
Daily business/financial news; City gossip and comment;
search facility on current issues.
- FT Vision: Daily
business/economic headlines; daily major stock market index levels and comment;
company news and focus on the hot stocks.
- Electronic Telegraph
City Pages (need to enter via front page): Daily business news; market
report; city diary; daily market data: major stock moves, major stock indices,
popular shares, inflation/interest/exchange rates; tips (Questor);
cartoon
(Alex); search facility on archive of past issues from November 94.
- London Evening
Standard: Daily general/business news; market summary data; forthcoming
company result and statistics announcements; stock prices; index of companies
mentioned in articles; City gossip; archive of five past issues.
- The Observer
- Sunday
Business
- Barron's Online and
Wall Street Journal
Interactive Edition: electronic edition of Dow Jones & Company's
business and financial weekly magazines with added research capabilities.
Requires subscription (free trial)
- Business Week: international business/investment
magazine. Requires registration.
- The Economist:
Online edition of the Economist. Most of the content requires a paid-for
subscription.
- Investors
Chronicle: Online companion to magazine. Some of the content is restricted
to subscribers.
- Investors
Week
- Investment &
Pensions Europe Online: source for printed and online information on
European Pensions and Investments.
- Tracker
Magazine: House magazine for NetISA.
- Euromoney: Online
edition of financial magazine. Requires free registration.
- Financial
Services Review: subscription-based magazine about finance. Includes
membership form, various articles that have been published, their editorial
policy and more.
- Individual Investor
- requires registration.
- InvestmentNews
- national newspaper for financial planners and investment advisers.
subscription required.
- Investor's Week
- Merrill Lynch OnLine
Today - online magazine with financial news and analysis, including audio
updates, market watch, international views, Washington news, and more.
- Money Magazine - Features text from Money Mag, guides to
mutual funds, company reports, the best loan rates in your area, and more.
- MoneyMinded -
personalised and practical guide to saving, investing, borrowing and spending,
designed for anyone who wants to take control of her financial life.
- Mutual Funds Magazine:
archive of American mutual funds magazine. Requires registration.
- Reuters Magazine
Online: Bimonthly magazine from a financial information provider, serving
the financial community with features about markets and clients, new
information about the company's products and useful ways to get better value
from data and news.
- Shares
Magazine: seems to require ActiveX.
Other Press
- Papersnips: quick summary of financial stories in national
press
As tip sheets are generally circulated on a subscription basis they are not
normally to be found online.
There are several active discussion groups, operating either as bulletin
boards, or as mailing lists. Beware of taking material posted on such groups as
reliable, as you do not know what the competence or agenda of the source is.
- Bulletin Board
Bestiary: a humorous look at the participants in discussion groups; may
encourage some healthy skepticism.
Some sites have a single forum for all equities; others have seperate boards
for individual companies. The latter can be used to check for news on a
company, to the degree that they can be said to be a reliable source.
Growth
AIM
Biotech
Games
- Games
Investor: intended to provide potential and existing investors with regular
news and analysis about the publicly quoted UK computer and video games
companies.
Internet
- EONet: "intends to be the primary news site for
private investors seeking information on the companies, trends and issues in
tomorrow's European internet market".
Mining
Tech
- Hotnews
at Holway: news on UK IT companies
- TechMark
Research: news on TechMark IT companies. From the same source as Hotnews,
and overlapping in content.
Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs)
Information
Distributors
Directories
- Boursorama: French
stockmarket vortal; if you're interested in the Bourse de Paris and read French
...
- Bernice Cohen: site
associated with an investment writer.
- Fillyaboots:
content aggregator, with bulletin boards.
- Money Guru:
- Sharepages: UK
stockmarket vortal
- The Street (UK):
UK incarnation of American stockmarket vortal. Most content requires
registration.
There are many online sources of free equity price information, some of
which are listed here.
- Share
Aware: listing of sources of company/share price information
Free real time quotes are offered by
freequotes. Customers
of online brokers can
also obtain real time quotes from the brokers' web sites.
Delayed quotes, and historical price information is widely available.
For individual share prices the most useful sites are
Interactive Investor Internationalwhich gives a
range of closing price and volume charts, and
Yahoo UK Stock Quotes, which links to the
company information at Hemmington Scott. This can be supplemented by
Free and ESI for 1 month price charts. For
historical data useMarket Eye
For comparative share performances use
Powersearchat Moneyworld. For a quick check of a
batch of shares use
Stockmarket at Moneyworld, the
III portfolio facility, or the
BBC share service (or
Sharewatch for
Irish shares).
- 2000 share check at BBC Business News
- FirstQuote:
subscription (paid) share information service. Free trial.
- Free and ESI at
Electronic Share
Information: equity, etc, quotes; 1 month closing price charts, including
comparison with sector indices. Requires free registration.
- InfoTrade
- Interactive Investor International: Share
prices, and 3 and 6 month, and 1, 3 and 5 year closing price and volume charts,
covering equities, unit trusts and investment trusts.
Portfolio valuations. News headlines for
companies (the news articles are on a pay subscription). Investment mail lists.
Requires free registration.
- Investor Service at
Market Eye: 20
minute delayed equity, etc, quotes; 1 year closing price charts.
5-year historical price data, as downloaded 'comma
separated values' files, as funderstood by any respectable spreadsheet.
Requires free registration.
- Equity prices for OFEX traded companies can be found at the
OFEX
website
- Peel Hunt:
- Plutonic:
- Powersearch at Moneyworld: comparative 1/3/5
year performance for FT-All Share sectors, unit trusts, investment trusts, etc.
- Sharewatch
at NetFast, including ISEQ index and complete
Irish share prices.
- Stockmarket at
Moneyworld: lists of popular shares, FT-100, FT-250, sectors, 50 biggest
winners and
losers, and alphabetical London prices.
- WOQATS (World of
Quotes and Trading System): quotes for various North American and European
equity markets, including London; indices and financial news.
- Yahoo UK Stock Quotes
Technical analysis, aka chartism, is the prediction of equity price
movements on the basis of the historical record of equity prices.
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