Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage

Company Information, Industry Surveys, and Publications

• Welcome to Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage! With this database, you will be able to research information about companies, industries, and obtain access to industry and executive directories.

Go to balibrary.org and click on “research”

Click on “Business, Careers, Technology”

In the “Business, Careers, Technology” page, click on “Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage.” You will need to enter your Barrington Area Library card number.

Click on the “Companies” tab. It will bring you to this page where you can search for companies by name, as well as Executives and Directors.

If you type in a company name, it will bring you to this page where you can also see the Ticker Number and the Region the company is located. Click on the company that you would like to research.

This is the business summary and fact sheet. You can also look at vital statistics, stock reports, corporation records and news, as well as industry surveys.

Back on the companies page, you can also search for Executives and Directors by company name.

You will get a list of Executive names, as well as the company and company address. Click on the name to see if there is any biographical information available.

If you click on the “Industries” tab at the top, you will be able to read reports that Standard & Poor’s publishes and updates regularly throughout the year. Find out what the latest Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats are in an industry. Click on “Sub-Industry Review” for additional surveys.

In Sub-Industry Review, click the drop-down menu for additional industry reports.

The “Directories” tab will bring you to this page, where you can search for Security Dealers of North America and the Register of Corporations, Executives, and Directors.

Want to learn more?

• Find out how to use Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds here.

• The Barrington Area Library’s Slide Share account has tutorials on other business databases available with your Barrington Area Library Card.

• Access these tutorials here.

Questions?

• You can visit the Adult Services Reference Desk, call us at (847) 382-1300 and press 1, text us at 66746 (type code askbal the first time you send us a text), or send us an email.

• Thanks for using the Barrington Area Library! For more information on our business resources, check out our business page at balibrary.org/business