Beyond a Google search, another approach to getting started is to research the company on one of any number of financial websites.  These sites include Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, Barchart.Com, Investing.Com, among numerous others.  Designed for investors and traders, these sites will provide the research with comprehensive financial information, stock prices, PE ratios, news, analysis and charts.  These sites will provide the researcher with the company ticker symbol which can be used for other research platforms.