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Bankrate.com
Small Business Ratio Calculators: Bankrate.com provides a brief introduction to ratio analysis as well as calculators for the most common ratios. Also provides calculators for mortgage, home equity, auto, CDs and investments, retirement planning, checking and savings, credit cards, debt management, college finance, personal finance, and taxes.
Bizstats: Free business statistics and financial ratios
BizStats.com provides information about ratios and benchmarks and statistics for various manufacturing and service industries. Ratios included: Industry Financial Ratios; Industry Balance Sheets; Industry Income and Expense. Hint: Scroll down the whole page before using it.
MSN Money - Stock Research
After you enter a company's ticker symbol, look in the left margin menu bar for 'Financial Results'. Then click on 'Key Ratios' to get ratios for both the company and the particular industry.
Reuters.com
This site provides financial ratios of industries in addition to market news and company and industry figures. To find industry ratios, click on Stocks and then enter the stock symbol of a public company. You will then go to a summary page about that company. If you then select "Ratios" (on the left side), you will get comparisons of some of the company's financial performance ratios against the industry.
Yahoo! Finance - Industry Summary
This section of Yahoo! Finance gives you a list of the industries covered. Click on the industry name to get a list of companies in it, ratios for each and for the industry.
Yahoo! Finance - Competitors information
Click on Investing. Type in the ticker of a public company in your industry. Once the Quotes page comes up, click on Competitors on the left-hand margin. This pulls up a page comparing a few of the company's profit numbers with those of three competitors and the industry as a whole.
