Finance 

Key Business Ratios (Dun & Bradstreet)  - info 
Examine industry benchmarks compiled from  D&B’s database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios in 800 lines of business. Data exports into Excel. 

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Earlier years are in print:

Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios

Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) HF5681.R25I525  

Contains composite financial data on over 400 industries including manufacturing, retailing, service, and contracting lines of business. Financial statements on each industry are shown in common size form and are accompanied by widely used ratios. Current data for each industry is presented sorted by sales and sorted by assets. In addition, some comparative historical data is presented.

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Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios
Drexel Library Information Desk HF5681.R25A45 
Industry data is classified and presented in 13 categories based on company size so that a more precise benchmark can be pinpointed. Over 180 industries are presented.

RMA Annual Statement Studies  (Risk Management Associates)
Drexel Library Information Desk (1st fl.) HF5681.B2R58 
Contains composite financial data on over 400 industries including manufacturing, retailing, service, and contracting lines of business. Financial statements on each industry are shown in common size form and are accompanied by widely used ratios. Current data for each industry is presented sorted by sales and sorted by assets. In addition, some comparative historical data is presented.  

Definition of Ratios (PDF)  and Listing of industries in the Annual Statement Studies^® sorted by NAICS (PDF) from Risk Management Associates.

Advertising Ratios & Budgets
Drexel Library Information Desk (1st fl.) HF5801.A344 
This detailed report covers over 5,000 companies and 300 industries with historical 2005 advertising budgets, 2006 ad-to-sales ratios and ad-to-gross margin ratios, as well as 2006 and 2007 budget forecasts and growth rates. Use it to track competition, win new ad agency clients, set and justify ad budgets, sell space and time or plan new media ventures and new products. Includes industry and advertiser ad spending rankings and data on over 300 major foreign companies. Bought by major advertising agencies, media companies, advertisers and libraries.

    Table of Contents for Advertising Ratios & Budgets
    Sample of Content

Financial intelligence : a manager's guide to knowing what the numbers really mean
Drexel Library (2nd fl.) HG4028.B2 B422 2006 
Section V covers ratios.

Business ratios and formulas: a comprehensive guide
Drexel Library  (2nd fl.) HF5691 .B73 2002

Financial Ratio Tutorial

Hoover's - info

Check individual company record under Financial Data: Comparison Data for ratios

Check Company Financials: Ratios in individual company records.

LexisNexis® Academic: Company Dossier  - info
Ratio Analysis included in Company Profiles, as well as Dossier Compare Companies sections of Business. The data is from CoreData US Institutional Database.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage  - info
See Compustat Excel Analytics section of the company records, or, for industries, the Comparative Company Analysis section. Ratios are also found in the Industry Surveys and the Global Industry Surveys.