Research Guides: Company Information (U.S.): Company Type

Company Type

When Searching for company information, it helps to know the following facts about the type of company you are looking for.

Public vs Private

ORBIS (Bureau van Dijk)
ORBIS contains 200 million companies worldwide and is searchable using hundreds of criteria. ORBIS contains the following types of data: company financials in a standardized format; financial strength indicators; Country profiles and outlook from the EIU; Directors and contacts; Original filings/images; Stock data for listed companies; detailed corporate structures; Market research; Business and company-related news; M&A deals and rumors. The database includes corporate family trees in diagram format. You can also create and analyze peer groups.

Corporate Relationship

It is important to identify the parent company where financial information is found. The following sources will help identify the corporate relationship:

Bloomberg
This guide covers information mostly on public companies. This is an example of a list of public company names at: Bloomberg
Private Companies
Information on private companies can be found in the following guide