Investment reports...

Investment reports (or broker reports) can be great resources when conducting company or industry research. The difficulty is often in locating these reports. Over the years, the options have diminished, particularly for the academic market. At USFSP, we have a few options:

Investext Plus: Investext is perhaps the largest single source for investment reports. This database is focused exclusively on investment reports.

Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC). This is a general business database with content from a variety of sources. Until very recently, the investment reports available through BCRC were a subset of the reports contained in Investext Plus. However, BCRC now has a new contract for investment reports through "Reuters Research on Demand" (formerly Multex) -- a collection of reports currently from about 40 investment bankers, brokers, and independent research providers.

For any given company that you are researching, the reports available through Reuters on BCRC will differ from those available in Investext Plus - it's worth checking both.

Limited selections of investment reports are also available through other business databases to which we have access. For example, in LexisNexis, you can access a collection of "company analyst reports", which includes Investext reports as well as reports from Nelson's and Zacks.