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Mergent Market Atlas

Get access to and learn how to use the financial database Mergent Market Atlas.

Finding company financial information

You can find company financials easily in Mergent Market Atlas. Search for the company you are looking for from the Company Search, or use the Company Characteristics to narrow down a set of companies to choose from. 

You can see key statistics on the company's landing page, including stock price and profitability, but for a more detailed look, click on the "Financials" tab. 

You'll see that this page presents company financials in several different ways, including the preset "Company Report" that also appears on the company's "Overview" page and includes business characteristics, growth and profitability metrics, and more. (Note that the Company Report is currently only available for larger US companies - it is not currently available for Canadian companies.). More detail, and the ability to build out custom reports, can be found under the different segments under "Financial Statements". 

Financial information included in these statements usually dates back a period of ten years, but you may choose custom parameters. Note that all figures are reported both in the currency and on the scale the company trades in, but that you can change either by clicking the "As Reported Currency" or "As Reported Scale" buttons. 

You can export any of these balance sheets to CSV format using the "Export button near the top right corner. 

Let's chart a custom set of financials. Select "All Financials" from the Financial Statements box.

Select the financials you are interested in charting. Only 4 items at a time can be charted.

Click on "Chart Selected". 

 

Charts will appear showing your selected financials over time. You can change the time period the charts refer to, or click on "Chart Options" to export in PDF or SVG, print the chart, or view the data sources in JSON.

Comparing company financial information

You can compare key company financials for two companies at a time using the "Analysis" tab in Mergent. We'll do an example using a few entertainment companies.

Here's the "Overview" page for Netflix. Click on the "Analysis" tab. 

You will see several options for analysis in the menu bar to the left on the "Analysis" page, including "Comparison". Click on "Analysis".

The "Comparison" page will allow you to input a company to compare to. Let's input "Disney", making sure to select the one on the right stock exchange - in this case, NYS. (You may also use your Active List to compare similar companies by checking the "Use Active List" button; from there you can select any company in the Active List.)

 

You will see several key financial comparisons on the page, including stock price over time, income statements, balance sheets, and more. 

You can export this information to Excel for data manipulation using the "Export" button at the top of the page.