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RESEARCH TOOLS
Best Calls - Blue Chip Pick
www.bestcalls.com
If analysts and company officials jabber about earnings announce-ments on conference
calls, why shouldn't everybody be able to listen in? So goes the thinking behind a handful
of sites that have begun broadcasting these once-closed calls over the Web to any
interested individual investor. BestCalls is one of the best of the genre. Investors may
not discover any revelations - the calls can be quite humdrum - but more information is
always a good thing. BestCalls posts a calendar of upcoming conference calls, and
investors can also search for schedules by company name. The site provides easy
instructions on how to listen to them and allows you to post questions during live calls.
Users can sign up for a CallTracker service, which sends e-mail alerts of upcoming
conference calls. Membership is free, though you must regis-ter. Free optional
subscription to the BestCalls newsletter.
D-9 | E-8 | V-10
Companies Online
www.companiesonline.com
Search engine Lycos and corporate research firm Dun & Bradstreet teamed up to put
together this free reference tool. Links to more than 100,000 public and private
corporations with online pres-ences. Companies pay to have their Site featured on the
front age, but users can fire up the search engine to look for spe-cific companies.
D-8 | E-8 | V-10
Company Sleuth
http://companysleuth.com
Clue into what public companies are doing behind the scenes. Company sleuth combs other
Web sources to gather data on the inner workings of the public companies you specify.
Receive daily e-mail reports on new patents and trademarks, newly registered Internet
addresses, message board postings, insider trades, and more. Day-old info. Free
registration, although premium services are offered for a fee.
D-8 | E-9 | V-9
Contingency Analysis
www.contingencyanalysis.com
Excellent place to explore the dark side of the markets. Fundamentals section ideal place
to learn about risk. Take the risk intuition test to learn how much you don't know. Stay
away from message boards, though, which are focused on institutional investor solutions.
D-7 | E-8 | V-9
Earnings Whispers
www.earningswhispers.com
Check here for forecasts of company earn-ings, allegedly from inside but unnamed sources.
Site publishes whisper numbers about three to four weeks before compa-nies are supposed to
report earnings. Type in the ticker symbol or company name for nearly 4,000 stocks to call
up whisper numbers, current price, and other stock data, along with a message board
dedicated to each stock.
D-8 | E-9 | V-7
FinanceWise
www.financewise.com
Avoid receiving a ton of hydro-engineering sites when you submit a query on liquidity with
this Yahoo! of Internet investing. Search engine focuses exclusively on Web sites that
have financial content. You've gotta register before you use, and you can only access the
engine from a personalized, post-registration bookmark. So you can't just type in the URL
and start searching.
D-8 | E-4 | V-9
FinWeb
www.finweb.com
With links to academic journals and papers, this site is geared toward the heady investor.
Also includes an interna-tional list of links to financial and eco-nomic professionals.
Site design a little amateurish, given the high-brow nature of the content.
D -5 | E-6 | V-7
$ First Advisors
www.firstadvisors.com
For a $l9.95 a month subscription, users "look over the shoulders" of
professional investment advisors including Gabelli Asset Management, Locke Capital
Management, and Oxford Capital Groupe. This flashy site has the look and feel of a
downtown loan agency. Has lava become the neon of the '90s?
D-4 | E-6 | V-7
lnsiderTrader
www.insidertrader.com
Sneak a peak into the portfolios of a com-pany's execs - see how much they're buying and
selling of their own company's stock. This information must be reported to the SEC and can
be found on various govern-ment and private sites. But if you need timely info and aren't
willing to wade through legal documents, this site's free and subscription services nicely
package and analyze insider-trading info.
D-7 | E-8 | V-8
$ Investment Wizard
www.ozsoft.com
At $5.95 a month, this site is a solid deal. Generates proprietary analysis of stocks,
mutual funds, and commodity prices. Includes daily list of stocks to buy. Plus sews and
commentary.
D-8 | E-8 | V-9
$ Investment-Advice
www.investorradvice.com
Unusual site offers specific trade recom-mendations based on computer analysis of existing
or theoretical portfolios. Pricing varies, depending on how you want the advice. Single
reports on a stock cost about $5.
D-6 | E-7 | V-8
Investor Relations
Information Network
www.irin.com
Fairly simple free site specializes in provid-ing online versions of company annual
reports. Search tool lets you find Web links to more than 2,000 companies.
D-7 | E-6 | V-7
Market Guide
www.marketguide.com
Free financial data site features a continual-ly updated database of research information
on more than 12,000 public companies. Also includes numerous charting and com-parison
tools. Check in regularly at "What's Hot/What's Not" for rankings of companies,
investment sectors, and industries.
D-7 | E-8 | V-8
Media General Financial
Services
www.mgfs.com
This financial data vendor, in an attempt to promote its products and services to media
and financial firms, lets individual investors use a search tool to generate company
pro-files. Graphics could use improvement.
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Money-rates.com
www.money-rates.com
Interest rate central. The latest on prime rate changes and banks offering good yields.
Look up key rates, economic indica-tors, and national rate averages. Site has links to
consumer and investment rates not provided. Delivers rates via e-mail for between $29.95
and $49.95 a year.
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$ NetCurrentAsset.com
www.netcurrentasset.com
For $11.95 a shot, this service provides a listing of stocks that trade below their net
current asset value in the country of your choosing. Also includes a rundown of the
companies' financials.
D-8 | E-8 | V-7
Prospectus Online
www.prospectusonline.com
You can sign up for free electronic delivery of mutual fund and corporate SEC prospec-tus
filings at site. Mutual fund selection is limited to those offered by participating
brokers, unless you choose to include a search of the federal government's vast EDGAR
database.
D-8 | E-8 | V-7
Public Register's Annual
Report Service
www.prars.com
Somewhat amateurish design, but this site is very helpful. Mails out free copies of annual
reports of firms listed on NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq, as well as over-the-counter firms.
Check out surveys of best brokers, stocks, and investment strategies. Includes links to
brokerage Web sites.
D-6 | E-6 | V-9
Rapid Research
www.rapidresearch.com
Efficient tool for selecting stocks. Look up fundamental data on more than 8,000 stocks.
Create your own basic or advanced stock screens, based on up to 29 criteria. The site also
runs its own screens to gener-ate lists of the top 20 income, value, and growth stocks.
D-9 | E-10 | V-10
$ Split Predict
www.splitpredict.com
A virtual crystal ball for predicting stock splits. Maintains a database of split
predic-tions for more than 2,500 companies. Newsletter (which costs $118.95 a year)
forecasts prices.
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StockScreener
www.stockscreener.com
This handy tool screens stock information based on maximum and minimum perfor-mance
criteria. Results tap company data from Hoover's Online.
D-8 | E-9 | V-9
Stock Valuation with Sense
www.stocksense.com
Pretty inventive stuff here. Introduces a method that uses a company's fundamentals to
evaluate its stock price. Neat "Double Search" tool lets you compare the
statistics of two companies at once. QuoteTV feature feeds streaming stock prices into
your PC.
D-8 | E-9 | V-9
Street Advisor
www.streetadvisor.com
Slightly schizophrenic site blends original tech stock coverage with day-trading
edu-cational briefs. In addition to daily tech stock analysis, also offers a model
portfolio for longer-term investors.
D-8 | E-9 | V-9
$ Telescan
www.telescan.com
The parent company owns a search-retrieval technology it pitches to businesses and
individual investors on its Web site. For between $12 and $18 a month, plus the price of
soft-ware, investors can use the search tool to find appealing stocks, options, and mutual
funds. Telescan also offers online pricing analysis from $9.95 for one hour of access each
month up to $299.95 for unlimited use.
D-7 | E-6 | V-8
Value Point Analysis
www.eduvest.com
Site promotes proprietary computer-trading model. Users can input data into the
com-plicated model and analyze the risk of pur-chasing certain stocks or index
derivatives. Includes discussion boards.
D-8 | E-7 | V-8
World Mergers and
Acquisitions Network
www.worldm-anetwork.com
Poorly designed but useful site includes information on how to profit from mergers and
acquisitions worldwide. Lists potential takeover targets by industry. Data could be
updated more frequently.
D-3 | E-6 | V-8
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