For nearly 45 years, Standard & Poor’s Compustat data has delivered high-quality, standardized fundamental and market data to investment professionals around the world. Compustat helps bring transparency to today’s markets with reliable information, deep history and extensive company coverage—giving institutional investors the right tools to approach the market with confidence.
Credibility
Compustat is utilised globally by approximately 30,000 top buy-side firms to manage an estimated $139 trillion in invested dollars. Additional industry usage includes:
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The CFA Institute and its Chartered Financial Analysts’ program
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Government and regulatory agencies worldwide, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
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Leading business schools, particularly within the Wharton School of Business WRDS platform
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Top quantitative researchers publishing in industry journals such as the Financial Analysts’ Journal, Journal of Investing,
Journal of Accounting and more
Coverage
Complete your quantitative analysis and model building with the largest set of fundamental and market data available, covering 65,000 securities and representing over 90% of the world’s total market capitalization.
Comparability
Compustat data is ideal for modeling and achieving comparability across industries, companies and–even within companies—across quarters and data items. We promote transparency in today’s markets by furnishing the investment community with detailed data, definitions and analysis.
Depth
Compustat provides unmatched company history back to 1950, providing key
restated and unrestated data for backtesting.
Compustat Standardisation
Since 1962, our specialised knowledge in data collection, standardisation and presentation has earned Compustat a level of authority unsurpassed in the financial information industry. More than simple data presentation, Compustat delivers a unique level of data comparability on which to analyse companies. We work to provide high-quality data so you can customise your research and better identify sound investment opportunities.
Standard & Poor’s uses an extensive four step process to collect and standardize fundamental company data, ensuring a high level of accuracy and delivering consistent, comparable data across companies, industries and time periods without reporting biases or data discrepancies.Our internal research team rigorously examines original company sources by carefully extracting financial information and reconciling data discrepancies. After collecting data from diverse sources, we standardize it by financial statement and by specific data item definition, preparing information that is comparable across companies, industries, time periods and sectors. This standardized presentation makes it easier to identify companies with similar characteristics, such as capital structure and operating performance and is designed to complement how the data is used. Additionally we analyze financial statement notes to provide detailed breakouts to gain additional insight overlooked by other companies.
Clients can select one unified Global database, or can choose from either the North America or Global data subsets. Data sets vary by delivery platform, and include:
- Fundamental and market data on 65,000 global securities
- Up to 20 years of annual and 12 years of quarterly history
- Comprehensive company financial data, extensive balance sheet, income
statement, and detailed footnotes
- Thousands of data items, pre-calculated ratios and concepts, corporate actions and business descriptions
