Taking Stock of Two Services: Moody's Investors Fact Sheets and Standard & Poor's Stock Reports

As the investing public flocks to no‐frills discount brokers and does its own investment homework, more and more of these soldiers of fortune can be found around the loose‐leaf financial services in the business departments of public and academic libraries. Because of their intensive, comprehensive coverage of the most widely traded stocks, two of the major stock reporting services, Moody's Investors Fact Sheets and Standard & Poor's Stock Reports, are becoming increasingly vital to libraries of all types. What follows is a comparison of the two services.