What is Factiva?
Factiva
is an online subscription service produced by Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall
Street Journal in partnership with Reuters, a major European publisher. It
contains full-text content for over 8,000 newspapers, magazines, and trade journals.
Factiva also offers investment information and public-company
financial data, analysis, company screening, and stock quotes. (NOTE:
Factiva is limited to CSU Chico students and faculty; it requires Explorer
and does not work with Netscape or Mac browsers.)
Company
Quick Search
- Go to Factiva from the Meriam Library ReSEARCH Station > Articles and Databases (http://www.csuchico.edu/lref/guides/rbn/)
- Click on the
Companies/Markets tab . Select
Company Quick Search .
- Key in the company
name. Tip: Be as exact as possible; or use the ticker symbol.
- Display your company's
page for company description, company web link, a list of competitors, detailed
stock prices, current news, financial reports with ratios and performance
measures, plus investment analyst reports.
- for Ratios
and Comparison Measures
- Display a company page
using Company Quick Search (see above.)
- Scroll
down to the "Reports" section.
- Choose "Comparison Report" or "Financial Snapshot Plus Profile" for ratios and
other performance measures. These may be downloaded in Excel format (see downloading
instructions).
Current & Historical Stock Quotes
Display your company's
page from Company Quick Search. (Follow the instructions above.)
Click on "Quotes" and select a date
range using the pull-down menu. (Daily prices for past 2 years; weekly & monthly for the past 5 years.)
Company
Screening
Go to Factiva
from
the Meriam Library ReSEARCH Station > Articles & Databases (http://www.csuchico.edu/lref/guides/rbn/).
Select
Companies/Markets and click on Company
Screening .
Input criteria
for industry, location, price and share data, ratios, dividend and growth, etc.
After each selection, click on Submit
Continue selecting criteria
within other relevant categories, clicking Submit after each.
When you have completed
your selections, click on "Get List" (basic).
Download or print your
list. (To research the particulars about each company, look them up in Company
Quick Search.)
Top Newspaper & Magazine Headlines
Move your cursor to "News
Pages" on the dark gray bar.
Select "Factiva
Pages". Then use the pull-down menu to select United States (or another
News Page of your choice)
From the U.S. News Page,
you will see the following publications: Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
Washington Post, Business Week, Barrons, Forbes, etc. (Some
issues are not full-text due to publisher limitations.)
Use the pull-down menus
to choose an issue or to select a section ( front page, editorial, cover story,
etc.)
Search
for articles
Search within the full-text
of over 8,000 newspapers and magazines from all over the world
Select "intelligent
indexing" to target searches by topic or region or source (journal title)
Search
for company names in "headline and lead paragraph" not in "full
article" (from the pull-down menu).
Select a date range
(from the pull-down menu).
To search within a specific journal title,
use sn (source name). Example: sn=forbes and global warming
Downloading, printing
and emailing results
Download
Click on the floppy
disk icon ("format for saving")
From the File menu, select "save as"
Select "A" Drive and key in a file name
To save in Excel format, use .xls
extension: macdonalds.xls. To
save in plain text format, select .txt: macdonalds.txt.
Print
Click on the printer
icon
To print from in the
lab or library, you will need money on your Wildcat card.
Email
Click on the envelope
icon
Key in your email address.
This page maintained by Wendy Diamond. Last update June 28, 2005 .
Finance and Investment Research