Mergent Online
Steps to creating your own industry averages
1. Go into Mergent Online
2. Find public companies
3. Click on tab “competitors”
4. “Add all to Company Analysis List”
Or
1. Search for SIC or NAICS
2. Sort results by sector for public companies
3. Check companies that you want to compare.
4. Drop down called “Company Analysis List”
5. “Add Currently Selected Companies”
When you have built a list of your industry
1. Click on “My Mergent Tools”
2. Click on “Company Analysis List”
3. At top, “Company Comparison Report”
4. Select all companies in the upper pane.
5. In lower pane, select all financials and ratios you seek.
6. Select a year, or latest. Latest might give variety of years, apples and oranges.
7. At bottom, select format Microsoft Excel.
8. “Create Report”
9. Utilize Excel functions to create averages for your hand-rolled industry.
RMA annual statement studies
