Financial professionals around the world are enhancing their credit analysis
by gaining deeper insight into Standard & Poor's ratings methodologies.
Now with CreditStats DirectTM
, they have access to the financial statement data adjusted by Standard & Poor's credit analysts and used to evaluate North American and European corporate and utility issuers.
Benefits
CreditStats Direct is a powerful add-on product to RatingsDirect® that gives subscribers ready access to this credit-adjusted financial statement information to improve clarity, consistency, and
comparability. CreditStats Direct helps users:
Identify investment opportunities and mitigate risk with further clarity into the methodologies that Standard & Poor's analysts use to arrive at their credit ratings
Enhance analysis with consistent company-by-company and line item-by-line item financial
statement data to support an evaluation of credit quality.
Improve efficiency with an easy-to-use comparison tool to view side-by-side financial statistics and ratios for up to 100 entities.
Features
As one of the leading authorities on global credit markets for over 140 years, Standard & Poor's
Ratings Services takes an in-depth look at financial statement information and makes adjustments
where necessary to:
Enable more meaningful peer and period-over-period comparisons
Better reflect underlying economics
Normalize different estimates and assumptions
Better reflect creditors' risks and rights
Enhance forecasting
Typical adjustments are made to items such as Accrued Interest and Dividends, Asset Retirement Obligations, Capitalized Development Costs, Inventory Accounting Methods, Operating Leases,
Post-Retirement Employee Benefits/Deferred Compensation, and more.
