Industry Norms & Ratios Report
When you don’t have the financial information on a particular business, D&B’s Industry Norms & Ratios Report will help you make empowered decisions. D&B Industry Norms and Ratios Report uses information from our database of public and private companies in over 800 lines of business to calculate financial norms and ratios by industry and asset size. Then you can use these information as benchmarks to assess the financial strength of a company in comparison with industry peers.
With D&B’s Industry Norms & Ratios Report, you can:
- Determine minimum acceptable levels of risk
- Analyze cash flow via profitability and collection periods
- Devise benchmarks to spot potential problem accounts
- Pinpoint profitability trends of a company compared to an industry segment
- Make profitable merger and acquisition decisions
- Determine stability and volatility of new entries in the market
- Identify most profitable market segments
- Gain in-depth knowledge of your customer base
D&B’s Industry Norms & Ratios Report gives you:
- Business ratios categorized into three families: solvency, efficiency and profitability
- Searches by SIC, line of business, asset range, and year
- Sorting and filtering of data to specific needs
- Creation of ratios using a company’s financial statement to produce a comparison report
- Record exporting and printing in a variety of formats
- Extensive help capabilities
