Compustat
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| Standard & Poor's Compustat | |
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| Type | Division of Standard & Poor's which is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Headquarters | Centennial, CO, United States |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Products | Compustat Xpressfeed, Research Insight, Backtester, Custom Solutions, Research Insight on the Web, Market Insight, Total Return |
| Website | www.standardandpoors.com |
Standard & Poor's Compustat is a database of financial, statistical and market information on active and inactive companies throughout the world. The service began in 1962.
This database provides a broad range of information products directed at institutional investors, bankers, advisors, analysts, and asset/portfolio managers in corporate, M&A, private capital, equity, and fixed income markets. The database covers 75,000 securities, representing over 90% of the world's total market capitalization, and provides company data history back to 1950 (depending when that company was added to the database)
The follow information is provided:
- The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS)
- Key market identifiers, includings CUSIP, NAICS, ISIN, SEDOL
- Monthly and daily pricing data
- Standard & Poor's and other leading Index Data
- Earnings data from Thomson I/B/E/S
- Corporate actions and company business descriptions
- Insider and Institutional holdings
- Standard & Poor's Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, and ratings
A number of prepackaged products and services are available:
- The Compustat Xpressfeed data subscription is Standard & Poor's premier product, has daily transactional updates for over 75,000 securities,
- The Compustat Xpressfeed Loader, an add-on feature to the Xpressfeed data subscription, processes Compustat data into a relational database stored on a subscriber's server.
- Research Insight is an analytical software interface for working with the Compustat database. It is fully customizable and accessible through Microsoft Excel. There are also custom services.
