LibGuides: Business: 70-340: Business Communications: COMPANIES

Estimate sales and project everything else

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
company database - find up to 15 years of financial data, SEC filings, historical stock prices, equity reports, etc.
CB Insights This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive global database of private companies and investors activities. Contains advanced searches for private companies, investors, and deals information (especially private equity and venture capital). Also great for news on emerging markets. An excellent resource for startups and entrepreneurship research. (NOTE: You must create an account using your CMU email).
PrivCo This link opens in a new window
company database - private companies worldwide with financials and venture funding information, especially tech startups. Also lists funding companies themselves.
BizMiner This link opens in a new window
Here you can find the overall costs of expenses like labor, rent, taxes, advertising, and insurance as averages for the industry, and as a percentage of your estimated sales. You'll probably want to choose "micro-firms" and then "startups."

Major competitors should be listed in the industry reports that you find in the "Find out about industries" section above.

For more complete listings of smaller companies in an industry see:

ReferenceUSA (now Data Axle) This link opens in a new window
Various modules: US and Canadian company directories, new business filings, consumer lifestyles, and more, with data visualization and mapping. Good for both public and private company info.
Hoover's (Now D&B Hoovers) This link opens in a new window
Covers over 188 million global, public and private firms, with company and industry overviews, financials, and more. This platform was retired at the end of 2018. All data is now in the D&B Hoovers database. NOTE: Limits on downloads per year.

Thomas Register of US Manufacturers
manufacturers and distributors - excellent product breakdown

PrivCo This link opens in a new window
US private company financials, information on private M&A deals, valuations, venture capital, private equity, etc. Over 800,000 US private companies profiled. Good for locating investors and competitive intelligence. NOTE: You must create an account using your CMU email. Use of this database is for academic purposes only.