Standard & Poor's Research Insight® on the Web delivers integrated Compustat® Databases (North America and Global) via the Internet in a user-friendly Excel spreadsheet. Institutional professionals involved in equity, credit, risk and industry analysis will find Research Insight on the Web ideal for building customizable financial models and performing rigorous company analysis.
Features and Benefits
Fundamental and market data on approximately 54,000 global securities, with up to 20 years of annual and 14 years of quarterly fundamental data, including daily pricing back from 1988 (monthly from 1962)
Standard & Poor's Equity Research for a concise picture of a company's health, along with Standard & Poor's estimates of the stock's worth
Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys for industry information and economic trends on industries
Current and historical original financial statements from EDGAR
Company press releases and articles from newswire services for recent 90 days
A new ticker entry toolbar for quick company look-up
Online Benefits
Research Insight on the Web is accessible wherever 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. The web-based database engine is automatically updated daily with important elements such as corporate actions, company fundamentals and market prices. Internet delivery also provides immediate access to online Help files, user guides and data item definitions.
Ease-of-Use Functionality
Working 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. This easy-to-use screening tool allows you to examine the Compustat database to search for peers, or for companies that meet specific financial criteria on a global basis, turning analysis into insight.
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.
