7 top competitive intelligence tools for: annual reports and earning calls

These are some of the tools we use in competitor research for our customers - to analyze competitors, understand what they are doing and what they plan to do next.

  1. African Financials - company reports for several African countries, such as Nigeria, Botswana, Kenya, Zambia and others. Also sorted by industry, and across publicly listed exchanges.

  2. Annual Reports - other than the SEC, perhaps the most comprehensive aggregator of annual reports, covering around 10,000 companies around the world.

  3. EDGAR Full-Text Search - one of the essential sources of competitor analysis, this is the SEC’s database of annual reports for US-listed companies.

  4. Investor Network - press releases, earnings calls and other financial information for a large number of publicly listed companies.

  5. Seeking Alpha Earnings Calls Transcripts - perhaps the best source of earnings calls transcripts, available for free or a comparatively low fee.

  6. The Public Register - free copies of physical (printed) annual reports, for companies listed on North American exchanges.

  7. Yahoo! Finance Earnings Calls - Yahoo! Finance generally is a good single port of call for company information, including financials (with summary tables) and earnings calls.

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