Information Service

What Makes it Special?

Comprehensiveness:

The breadth and depth of eol alone are impressive. This enormous storehouse of corporate information covers almost 5,000 listed and unlisted companies. In addition to Yuhos (10K-type filings), it includes Annual Reports, Earnings Statements, Business Reports, Company Guides, IR Presentation Materials, and Press Releases and more.

Usability:

That alone would make the system second to none. However, what is truly impressive is that it allows users to conduct extremely detailed searches of all this corporate data online in HTML. There is only one other system in Japan that allows similar searches in HTML format: the EDINET (Electronic Disclosure for Investors Network), which is operated directly by the Financial Services Agency of the Japanese Government. While EDINET is an excellent database, it can be challenging to use and it is certainly not designed for non-Japanese users.

Completeness:

eol contains every full-year and half-year Yuho for every publicly traded company (over 4,000 firms) going back over twenty years - to 1984. Add to that all the regular and irregular corporate filings and other disclosure documents, and you get an extremely detailed picture of any company's growth, development and future prospects.

Power:

With the power of eol's data at your fingertips, you can scan an entire sector of the Japanese economy at a glance or drill down to a micro-detail of a single company's management structure, and then compare that detail horizontally with all its peer group companies. All quickly, easily and of course, all in English.