As you can see company profiles include a lot of information and this would require significant research
especially if you're not an insider of the company you are preparing a profile for before showing you
a suggested slide structure.
We'll give you some hints where to find the information you need for a company profile.
The logical place to start the research is the company website.
If it is a publicly listed company it would have an Investor Relations section with its financial reports
investor presentations and other regulatory filings.
Company press releases about significant corporate events and recent developments should also be available
there.
We would advise you to have a good look at all the information available on the company website to understand
its business product or service offering geographical presence board and management team.
Other key sources to use are Equity Research Reports also known as broker reports.
If the company is listed often listed companies are covered by at least a few investment bankers who
follow closely these companies and make recommendations according to their own understanding.
Market data providers like Bloomberg facts set and merger market are another valuable tool you can leverage.
Provided you have access to one of these systems these are some of the sources we can use when performing
company research in our next lesson will talk about the way we typically design a Company Profile.
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