Standard & Poor's Compustat® Products and Services
Our databases and analytical products have provided buy-side firms with unique industry-leading solutions. Reach your investment goals by letting our objectivity and expertise work for you. From global finance giants to boutique hedge funds, institutional investors know they can count on Compustat data for its unparalleled quality, global history, breadth and depth.
Analytical Tools
Standard & Poor's Research Insight® Standard & Poor's Research Insight is a powerful analytical engine built upon the foundation of the Compustat® database. Placing a wealth of financial data and insightful company reports, performance graphs and textual documents at your fingertips, Research Insight gives you the perspective you need to determine a company's true value, as well as identify buy/sell opportunities. The powerful graphical interface allows you to build, modify, generate and print multiple reports simultaneously, allowing you to focus on your results rather than programming.
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Standard & Poor's Research Insight® on the Web Research Insight on the Web works directly through an Excel Add-in, you can perform your company analysis by creating custom financial models with easy-to-use charts and reports or by selecting from our library of templates. Research Insight on the Web's online analytical engine provides ratios, expression language for reporting and flexible screening to identify companies that meet key selection criteria. Research Insight on the Web is accessible where ever you connect to the Internet, allowing for portability and scalability within your firm and eliminating the need for data downloads, CD-ROMs and connections to time-sharing databases. This easy-to-use screening tool allows you to examine an integrated Compustat database (North America and Global) to search for peers, or for companies that meet specific financial criteria on a global basis.
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Standard & Poor's BacktesterTM Standard & Poor's Backtester is the flexible desktop application designed to test investment strategies back in time. Standard & Poor's Backtester, powered by the Research Insight analytical engine, using the Standard & Poor's Compustat® database as its core data foundation, is the tool you need for serious quantitative portfolio analysis. Global real-world data, speed and ease-of-use, provide the right combination for the demands of quantitative investment professionals to backtest their investment theories in an application that is not hindered by borders.The enhanced factor testing capabilities, including regression analysis, will enable you to uncover predictive an linear relationships between factors and holding period returns, thus discovering the significance a factor may play in the fund or portfolio. Portfolio managers and investment analysts will benefit from Standard & Poor's Backtester's diversity of capabilities, as well as the ability to be creative in adapting portfolios to a changing economic climate.
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Standard & Poor's Market Insight® Market Insight's easy-to-use, online platform features company fundamental and market data, business descriptions, financial snapshots and historical corporate actions, plus access to Standard & Poor's Stock Reports, EDGAR filings and Global Reports*. Benefit from being able to review index related research reports, such as Event Studies for index additions, S&P Index Criteria, Global Index Review and more. Additionally, Market Insight has Investment Policy Committee (IPC) Notes, which are Standard & Poor's sector recommendations for portfolio weightings, economic market reviews and upcoming announcements, as well as Trends and Projections Reports that provide in-depth reviews and analysis of the U.S. economy.
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Analytic services and products provided by Standard & Poor’s are the result of separate activities designed to preserve the independence and objectivity of each analytic process. Standard & Poor’s has established policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality of non-public information received during each analytic process.
