20 websites to get global company filings

One of our favourite lists when obtaining group-level information

1. Companies Register – AU - register of companies in Australia.
2. Companies Register – CA - register of companies in Canada.
3. Companies Register – DE - register of companies in Germany.
4. Companies Register – DE - register of companies in Germany.
5. Companies Register – ES - register of companies in Spain.
6. Companies Register – ES - register of companies in Spain.
7. Companies Register – FR - register of companies in France.
8. Companies Register – HK - register of companies in Hong Kong.
9. Companies Register – IE - register of companies in Ireland.
10. Companies Register – MX - register of companies in Mexico.
11. Companies Register – SG - register of companies in Singapore.
12. Companies Register – UK - register of companies in the United Kingdom.
13. Companies Register – WW - aggregation of companies registers worldwide, maintained by UK Companies House.
14. Data Axle - key information about North American companies, often verified by telephone calls; now more focused on being a sales targeting platform than a research tool.
15. D&B Hoovers - subscription database from Dun & Bradstreet with information about companies worldwide; huge database but now more focused on being a sales targeting platform than a research tool.
16. Footnoted - exciting findings from the small print of annual reports; Footnoted follows the clues in the back pages that most of us never read.
17. Mergent Online - aggregated information for US and global companies, with features for creating custom data tables.
18. Open Corporates provides legal entity information for companies worldwide. It is more focused on a company's structure and key officers than its financials.
19. SEC—The SEC's database of annual reports and other filings is a must-have for any competitor analysis of US-listed companies.
20. Trefis is a data analysis tool with a unique perspective on how public companies' individual divisions/products contribute to the company's stock price or market capitalization.

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