Google Trends: test demand and seasonality with search interest
Google's free tool shows relative search interest over time and by place, with related searches that reveal how people describe a need.
Yahoo Finance: quick quotes, financials and history for listed firms
Free quote pages with key statistics, recent financial statements, historical prices, analyst data and holders. Longer histories and downloads need a paid plan.
Damodaran Online: free industry data on margins, betas and multiples
NYU Stern professor Aswath Damodaran publishes yearly industry datasets on cost of capital, betas, margins, multiples and risk premiums, free to download.
FRED: graph and download economic data from the St. Louis Fed
The St. Louis Fed's free database of economic time series. Find a series, adjust the graph, download the data and get email alerts on…
Investor relations pages: how to read a company from its own reports
Listed companies publish results, filings and annual reports on their investor relations pages. Here is a simple routine for reading them well.
Macrotrends: long-run financial history for listed companies
Free pages with years of annual and quarterly figures for listed companies, plus long-run charts for markets, commodities and the US economy.
Crunchbase free tier: look up private companies and their funding
Crunchbase profiles startups and private companies, including funding. A free account gives limited search; exports and full results need a paid plan.
Companies House: check any UK company’s filings and officers free
The UK register lets anyone search companies free, read filed accounts and other documents, see current and past officers, and set alerts for changes.
SEC EDGAR full-text search: search inside US filings since 2001
The SEC's free search across the full text of electronic filings since 2001, with filters for form type, date, company, person and location.
UN Comtrade: find who trades what with whom, by product
The UN's database of official international trade statistics, searchable by reporter, partner and product, with free public access and paid bulk options.
