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RESEARCH REPORTS ON-LINE

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The big news these days is how the nature of research is changing since the SEC instituted new regulations to, hopefully, keep research unbiased. There are a growing number of independent research firms with reports for sale. NASDAQ has announced the organization of the Independent Research Network (IRN), a joint venture between themselves and Reuters, to help fill the gap. Not to be outdone, the New York Stock Exchange is exploring the possibility of offering something similar. Or they may form an alliance with the new National Research Exchange, a similar venture matching up small and medium sized companies with researchers who, probably for a fee, will cover them.

These are not the first such efforts to expedite ethical pay-for-research reports. Investorside Research Assn. is a non-profit trade association of investment research providers that do not engage in investment banking, company consulting or research-for-hire. Their members constitute the leading investment research firms in the world, providing research that works purely for investors. A similar organization is First Research Consortium, an association of standards-based research providers to promulgate and publicize the "Standards for Independent Research Providers" to be used by investors in considering the credibility of a published or publicized research report, and by public companies in considering enrollment in a credible, professional program providing analyst coverage. Yet another group you may wish to look at is the Shareholders Research Alliance, an organization of non-controlling shareholders in public companies who have formed in alliance with professional Independent Research Providers governed by the aforementioned "Standards For Independent Research Providers".

Before ordering research reports, how do you know which analysts are the best? Go to , StarMine, , Zacks, , Investars, and ValidIdea, websites with different approaches devoted to rating the analysts. In addition, Institutional Investor Magazine publishes a written analyst ranking.

Investorside Research Assn.

A non-profit trade association of investment research providers that do not engage in investment banking, company consulting or research-for-hire. Their members constitute the leading investment research firms in the world, providing research that works purely for investors. You can search by stock symbol to see which members have reports on the company you are interested in.

Research Connect

Allied with InvestorSide, this website offers research aimed at investors but also broader research in a number of industries and fields.

First Research Consortium

An association of standards-based research providers, many providing paid-for researc. They promulgate and publicize the "Standards for Independent Research Providers" to be used by investors in considering the credibility of a published or publicized research report, and by public companies in considering enrollment in a credible, professional program providing analyst coverage.

Shareholders Research Alliance

An organization of non-controlling shareholders in public companies who have formed in alliance with professional Independent Research Providers governed by the aforementioned "Standards For Independent Research Providers".

CBS Marketwatch's Market Advisers Page

Seach by ticker symbol for people covering that stock at 10K Wizard, D&B, Dow Theory Forecasts, Morningstar, Motley Fool, RealMoney, ValueEngine and Zacks.

Multex (now part of Reuters)

Has over 250,000 broker research reports for sale.

Zacks Analyst Watch

Zacks Investment Research of Chicago is making its database of 5,000 equities available on the Internet and offers a free demo. Like Streetnet, below, this site features a lot of analyst research and is a good place to look for companies you can't find elsewhere.

Thomson

Has some free information plus research reports which you can order for a reasonable price. Their FirstCall is expensive but offers a wealth of information.

Cohen Independent Research Group.

Independent third party stock research business selectively initiates Independent Research Analyst Coverage for overlooked public corporations.

VectorVest

Offers free stock analysis on over 7,000 stocks.

VEreports (div. of Value Engine)

Independent and industry research valuations on more than 10,000 U.S. companies in 200 U.S. industries, and 12,500 mutual funds

Sophia Orange Investment Advisors, LLC

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

EquityNet Research

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

Burritt Research

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

Beacon Equity Research

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

InvesTrend

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

Fundamental Research Corp.

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

Spellman Research

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

J. M. Dutton & Assoc.

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

Taglich Brothers

Offers analyst reports of smaller companies (paid for by the companies).

Buyside/StreetNet

This site has an alphabetical list of publicly traded companies with data taken from various articles or buy recommendations. Some have corporate profiles, also. A sister-magazine to the paper "Buyside", distributed to portfolio managers, this information is now available to you on the Internet. In addition to PR Newswire, above, this is a good place to go if you're researching a company that has no website.

Research Magazine

For many years the paper version of Research Magazine, distributed to stockbrokers, has profiled several companies each month. Now, these company-sponsored reports are also available for everybody to read on the Internet. Another good place to find information on a company that has no website.

123 Jump

Provides fundamental research based repots on America's growth companies in the tech, retail, and health care sectors. Also has the largest collection of summary of IPO profiles and performance statistics.

CCN (Conference Call Notes/CallStreet)

Comprehensive reports of management conference calls to the investment community. Over 750 companies. Free trial.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RATINGS

In the wake of scandals and Sarbanes-Oxley, new rating services have sprung up with subscriptions aimed at institutional investors. Many are too expensive for individual investors.

The Corporate Governance Quotient

Created by Institutional Shareholder Services. Currently the most comprehensive coverage, including all the NYSE and NASDAQ NMS plus some AMEX and NASDAC SMC.

GovernanceMetrics International (GMI)

S&P's "Governance Services"

A menu option on the right-hand side of the page the last time we looked. Includes Corporate Governance Scores (CGS) and Transparency & Disclosure Rankings (TDR). The TDR report is online, free of charge and was a one-time study. The CGS is paid for by the company for its internal use and the report posted (free for all to see) only if the company wishes to have it posted.

The Corporate Library

Click on "Research Products" for free trial access to The Corporate Library’s Board Analyst database, including a sample of the new Board Effectiveness Ratings.

Council of Institutional Investors (CII)

This group does not assign a rating for all public companies but in their "Corporate Governance" section does maintain a "Focus List" of companies with especialliy poor corporate governance. The list is free, online at their site.

Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)

Their "Benchmarker" product incorporates corporate governance practices.

Glass Lewis

Their "CorpUS Report" includes financial transparency and corporate governance.

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Vist Earnings Whispers

Whisper numbers on 4,000-some stocks.

Whisper Numbers

A competitor to Earnings Whispers.

BestCalls

Publishes conference call schedules for public companies. "Membership" at the site is free. BestCall depends on members' feedback for the call schedules.

Vcall, a service of Investor Broadcast Network

Gives investors access to live and archived broadcasts of major corporate events including earnings conference calls and other major financial communications..

SITES OFFERING ORGANIZED LINKS TO DATA BY NAME OR STOCK SYMBOL.

WE USE THESE A LOT, OURSELVES. If you like the group of financial information links we give you for the WSC Fastest-Growing Companies, here at Wall-Street.com you'll love the group of financial data assembled for pretty much every public company at the following sites. They organize the hundreds of sources free information on-line (such as company profiles, analysts reports, stock prices, eps projections, and more) into easy-to use menus for each company. This can save you a lot of time!

• CNN Money
• MarketWatch
• Knobias
• PinkSheets
• Microsoft Money Central.
• Reuters Finance.
• Yahoo Quotes and Yahoo Finance..

MASTER LISTS OF PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES' SITES

Stock Markets and Exchanges

American Stock Exchange (US)

AMEX has links to their listed companies with Websites.

New York Stock Exchange (US)

NYSE has links to their listed companies with Websites.

NASDAQ Stock Market (US)

NASDAQ gives out their stock quotes for NMS and SMC companies. On a company's quote page, they also have a link to that company's Website.

The OTC Bulletin Board run by Nasdaq

This official site gives a good summary of requirements for inclusion on the OTCBB and offers information on the companies trading here.

Pink Sheets

Pink Sheets LLC (formerly the National Quotation Bureau), which publishes the pink sheets publishes stock prices for these non-reporting companies. The Pink Sheets also runs an electronic real-time quote system designed for OTC agency traders, OTC Issuers, institutional investors, and other investment professional at, OTCquote.com .