Data Services

Compustat^® Snapshot
Compustat Snapshot is the world's first backtest database of financial information on international companies (currently excluding the United States and Canada). By delivering a comprehensive picture of reported data, this database helps you extend the scope of your historical analysis and long-term backtesting models to international markets and give you the leverage you need to get ahead of your competition. Unlike a traditional global database, Compustat Snapshot captures preliminary and final data, and retains those values collected in the database production process—original and changed data—delivering a comprehensive data solution for your complex backtesting needs.
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Compustat Xpressfeed^®
Compustat Xpressfeed provides a single integrated source for fundamental and market data in item-level transaction files that are delivered directly to a server via Intraday delivery. The product suite includes Compustat Xpressfeed data covering over 54,000 active and inactive companies from 110 countries and the Compustat Xpressfeed Loader, including the Compustat Xpressfeed Loader Library.
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Compustat^® Custom Solutions
Compustat Custom Solutions provides unique capabilities and data integration solutions tailored to meet the specific workflow needs of your organization. Our Custom Solutions team can assist you with your data integration challenges, as well as create specialized analysis and reports on an as-needed basis. Examples include: historical, peer and industry analysis, security and portfolio analysis, GICS studies, research, total return or M&A studies, executive compensation data and financial modeling.
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Standard & Poor's Backtester^TM
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.
*Separate license required
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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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Total Return Performance Graph Service
Equipped with authoritative and objective data on publicly traded companies, Standard & Poor's is uniquely qualified to assist you with your Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance needs. Our knowledgeable Total Return Service professionals will work with you to construct a variety of comparisons to showcase your company's performance in the most favorable light.
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