BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : MAY 22, 2000 ISSUE
COVER STORY Surfing World Markets Business Week Senior Editor Bill Glasgall and Business Week Online Contributing Editor Thane Peterson compiled this list of some of the most useful Web sites for evaluating foreign stocks. Also contributing were Business Week Corresdondents Mark Clifford and Bruce Einhorn in Hong Kong, Ian Katz in Sao Paolo, and Elisabeth Malkin in Mexico City. This is an extended version of a list of sites that accompanied "Getting the Lowdown on Global Highfliers" in the May 22 issue of Business Week AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS: www.adr.com This J.P. Morgan site is perhaps the best place on the Web to research American depositary receipts (ADRs) listed by foreign companies in the U.S. market. Provides stock histories, financial data, consensus analyst recommendations, and other detailed information on some 400 listed ADRs, and on an additional 100-plus unlisted ones. The site has numerous handy search-and-ranking features. For instance, you can call up historical stock charts both for the comapany's ADR and its local-currency shares in its home market. You also can browse through companies alphabetically or sort them by industry. The site lists major investors in each stock, both in the U.S. and in the local market. www.bankofny.com Another hoard of information on ADRs, including downloadable profiles of comapnies with a handy click-on-it map that sorts them by region of the globe. It also offers links to the companies' Web sites and a service for buying shares in many of the companies direct through Bank of New York, avoiding brokers' fees. www.nasdaq.com A wide variety of foreign companies are listed on the Nasdaq, ranging from Swedish telecom giant Ericsson to Qiagen, a promising biotech company headquartered in The Netherlands but with most of its research facilities located in Germany. For companies listed on the Nasdaq, this is an excellent place to do financial research and analysis. It's an easy-to-navigate site that allows you to screen stocks by all manner of criteria, from five-year earnings-per-share growth to sales. You'll find tons of data on companies, from analysts' recommendations and earnings estimates to financial info. www.nyse.com Of the 3,000-plus companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, 403 are foreign. They range from giants such as Japan's Sony and Toyota Motor to Dublin-based Elan Corp., a fast-growing drug company. The site breaks out a list of its foreign listings and offers a wealth of stock and financial information on them. ASIA: www.asiastockwatch.com This is an excellent one-stop site for checking up on stocks across Asia. News, stock quotes, and financial data on hundreds of companies. www.asia-links.com A Sunnyvale (Calif.)-based operation that provides links to all sorts of financial and economic sites across Asia. Includes basic financial data and earnings forecasts on thousands of companies. www.china.com A China portal. Investment content is pretty skimpy at this point -- mainly stuff like the top 10 gainers and losers on the Shanghai stock exchange. www.quamnet.com Stock quotes and financial information on companies trading on the Hong Kong exchange. One interesting feature: It posts company reports and recommendations by local securities firms. www.wallstraits.com Information on companies listed on the Singapore exchange. EUROPE: www.easdaq.com: Information about companies listed on the Brussels-based Easdaq growth market. Easdaq has never lived up to the hopes that it would become a Pan-European market similar to the Nasdaq in the U.S. Nonetheless, a number of highfliers are listed there, including Esat Telecom Group, an Irish long-distance and mobile-phone company whose share prices is up around 150% since last fall. www.europeaninvestor.com Provides real-time quotes on European stocks, IPO rankings and calendars, market news on European growth markets, and a handy portfolio tracking function. www.europeinvestordirect.com Offers Market information, a database of European annual reports, analysis by prominent academics. The site also has some handy stock-tip lists, such as the 50 ADRs with the highest earnings-growth potential based on the consensus of analysts' estimates and another of 10 promising European high-tech stocks. www.market-eye.co.uk A treasure trove of information on British stock, derivative, metals, and other markets. Downloadable five-year price history for many stocks. www.ft.com The Financial Times' site offers tons of company news, market commentary, and stock quotes on British and Continental companies. The "Company View" section includes basic financial information on companies, with analysts' consensus buy/sell recommendations. One of the best things about the site is its free archive of articles from 4,000 publications. A search for articles on Intershop, a fast-growing German e-commerce software outfit, yielded a raft of articles from publications ranging from the FT to a translation of a story in Germany's Die Welt. There's also a fairly pricey fee-based service for ordering analyst reports and company annual reports. www.neuer-markt.de Click on the "English" button, and this site gives you information in English on all the companies on Germany's red-hot Neuer Markt, the growth-stock market launched in 1997 that now has nearly 300 listings. The information is often confusing and hard to decipher. For instance, historical share-price data don't take into account stock splits. But that aside, it gives all sorts of hard-to-get info on some of the top growth companies in Europe. It also gives Web site addresses for the companies. www.nouveau-marche.fr Extensive information on the more than 100 companies listed on France's growth-stock market. Company listings include share-price history, basic financials, links to Web sites, downloadable annual reports, and more. It has has a listing of upcoming IPOs on the French market. Note: the English language button on this site is the Union Jack in the upper left-hand corner of the home page. GENERAL: www.allstocks.com This site bills itself as "The Investors and Traders Web site." But it's still mainly oriented toward U.S. markets and investors. It has company information and stock recommendations come from Zacks.com and seems to have information only on foreign companies that have ADRs. Charts on world stock markets are generated by Yahoo!. www.bloomberg.com Investor information on everything from stocks, bonds, and commodities to art and collectibles (through a deal with the Internet auction company Icollector). Bloomberg also has English-language sites on Britain, Australia, and Latin America, and local-language sites on Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. www.businessweek.com (or AOL keyword: BW): If you're reading this, you know the site offers a wealth of investing information from Business Week and Standard & Poor's. One of the key sources of information for international investors are company profiles and market analysis from the international editions of Business Week. finance.yahoo.com Links to Yahoo financial sites with news, market reports, and company data in virtually every foreign country, much of it in local languages. But Singapore, Canada, and Britain are in English -- and the British site contains lots of information on Continental markets and companies. www.stockpoint.com Market stats, most actives, biggest losers and gainers, and company profiles for major markets in Canada, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and Denmark, as well as the U.S. www.stocksmart.com This site offers a wealth of investment information with lots of non-U.S. content. It also has lots of portfolio-management tools for tracking stocks and mutual funds, as well as wireless access via cell phone, pager, or Palm handheld devices. The main drawback is cost: $19.95 per month with wireless access, $12.95 per month with access only from a PC. www.wisi.com This is perhaps the best one-stop site for evaluating foreign companies without having to pay a subscription. It has a huge online library of English-language profiles, stock quotes, investment reports, and financial histories of thousands of foreign companies, including many small growth outfits on which information in English is hard to find. I found detailed information on companies ranging from EM.TV, the Munich media company, to East Surrey Holdings, an English water utility. www.wsj.com Subscriber-based Wall Street Journal site. Fees can add up quickly, but it's an invaluable resource. You get access to articles on companies and trends that appear only in the Asian and European editions of the Journal. There's also a huge selection of wire-service news reports that you can access for just about any country in the world. An increasing number of corporate "briefing books" are available on foreign companies, giving background, stock, and financial data, and other vital information. The fee-based publications' library is expensive, but it gives you access to articles in thousands of U.S. and foreign newspapers and magazine. With wsj.com, you also get access to Smart Money and Barron's, both of which operate their own Web sites. www.intltrader.com This is a new online trading site aimed mainly at investors who want to buy "ordinary" foreign shares (as opposed to ADRs). But it also provides a lot of information and analysis, available for free to nonclients. One handy feature is a section of links to good investing sites, including most of the world's stock exchanges, from Tel Aviv to such obscure ones as the Ghana Stock Exchange. www.globeshare.com A rival to intltrader.com, this site is mainly aimed at investors who want to buy foreign shares. But it, too, provides a lot of research on companies, including analysts' consensus earnings estimates and buy/sell recommendations. www.worldlyinvestor.com Mainly a place to go for commentary on various stocks and investment themes. Includes some excellent columns on emerging markets and other foreign stocks. Since the beginning of the year, for instance, columnists gave investors an early warning on Globalstar, the troubled global wireless outfit, and made a timely call on the turnaround in cyclical Chinese stocks. Also has a good offshore mutual-fund center. LATIN AMERICA: www.latinstocks.com Excellent site for evaluating Latin American investments. Basic share and financial information on the 1,000 biggest companies Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and others. Also tracks Latin America-based ADRs and gives stock and bond market info. www.zonafinanciera.com Not strictly for investors, this site offers a raft of e-commerce services across all of South America. Everything is here from car-buying online to mortgage information to stock trading. Investors will find news, stock quotes, basic company information, and a handy mutual-fund screener. You can peruse all this in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					RELATED ITEMS Getting the Lowdown on Global Highfliers TABLE: Surfing World Markets (extended) INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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