Research Guides: BUSE 3331: The Business of Energy: Overview

Part One: Tracking prices and stock

Stock Prices

Yahoo Finance is an online tool that can help you find daily stock prices. Access Yahoo Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/ and type your company name in the search box. Once your company is returned, in the left side menu click Historical Prices to see open, high, low and closing prices.

Gas Prices

Henry Hub Spot Price can help you track your daily gas prices

Oil Prices

Brent-Europe oil prices can be tracked on the EIA website

Daily Futures Prices

Daily future prices for oil and natural gas. Look for the first month's contract available.

Part Two: Company Research

Company Websites

A company will also post its annual reports and filings on their website. You will usually look for a tab marked Investors, which may be under the About Us section of a website. Also in this area of a website is where you will most likely find news or press releases.

Databases

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Analyst Reports & Annual Reports
Find Equity Reports and Annual Reports for your company and it competitors. In the search box, type your company's ticker (perferred) or name. Once the profile is returned, click on the Reports tab and then click on the Equity Reports link or the Annual Reports link from the sub-menu. Competitors are listed below your company.
Most data can be exported to Excel. Full company reports and tear sheets are printable in PDF format. View the Finding Financials tutorial for more insights.
Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Competitors and Company ProfilesType a company name in the search box. Choose the company profile from the results. Look at related companies for competitors. Within the company profile choose rankings, market share, and SWOT report where available to help compare the companies.
Bloomberg
Performance Metrics Find company financials by entering TICKER FA Note the many tabs that take you to different financials. Ratios (5 & 11); Free Cash Flow (1 & 11); BOE/Share (7).
Available in the Duda Family Business Library. Use the Excel Add-In to obtain and organize Bloomberg data in spreadsheets. Information about the Bloomberg Certification program.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Conference Calls
Find conference call by using the Search Builder which is the main search page. Date = Last 6 months, at Company enter ticker and select company, at Subject type in and select transcript.
View the Finding News and Company Searching tutorials for more insights.
PitchBook This link opens in a new window
Transcripts
Search for public companies, click on the Transcripts tab. Downloads limited to 10 records per day/25 records per month.
Mobile not included. Downloads limited to 10 records per day/25 records per month. Record typically defined as a single row of data in a spreadsheet.

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