Standard & Poor's Industry's Surveys

About Standard & Poor's Industry's Surveys: Industry Surveys provide economic and business information on 52 major U.S. industries, analyzing operations, highlighting current problems and opportunities, and giving trends. This service also includes the Monthly Investment Review, which tracks the investment performance and prospects of 115 key industries each month.

For each industry information is provided on:

• Current environment - includes a near-term review and forecast, emerging trends and recent developments that may signal longer-term trends
• Industry profile - major players and market share data, market/demand developments, the raw materials situation, the labor environment and regulatory trends
• How the industry operates - the business/economic cycles to which it is subject, the competitive landscape, raw materials, distribution, regulation and legislation
• Key ratios and statistics - a listing and discussion of the key ratios and statistical measures that are widely followed benchmarks of the industry's health
• How to analyze a company - how to evaluate the health and profitability of a company in the specific industry
• Comparative company analysis - tables listing historical financial data, including revenues and income, profitability ratios and various important balance sheet ratios for leading companies in each industry

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Years of Coverage: varies

Access Restrictions: Gettysburg College Access. Students, faculty and staff with a Gettysburg College Microsoft Outlook email account may access from off-campus. See the off-campus access instruction page.

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