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Compustat
Company type
Product of S&P Global Market Intelligence, which is a division of S&P Global
Industry
Financial services
Founded
1962
Founder
Standard and Poor's
Headquarters
Centennial, CO
,
United States
Area served
World wide
Products
Compustat Xpressfeed, Research Insight, Total Return, Compustat Data
Website
http://www.compustat.com
Compustat is a database of financial, statistical, and market information on active and inactive global companies throughout the world. The service began in 1962.
This database provides products directed at institutional investors, universities, bankers, advisors, analysts, and asset/portfolio managers in corporate with, M&A, private capital, equity, and fixed income markets.[citation needed] The database covers 99,000 global securities, covering 99% of the world's total market capitalization with annual company data history available back to 1950 and quarterly data available back to 1962 (depending when that company was added to the database).[citation needed]
The following information is available:
Fundamentals
Compustat Data including Compustat North America, Compustat International, Compustat Global, and Compustat Point-in-Time data sets
Industry classification and universe management by GICS, NAICS and SIC
Key market identifiers, including CUSIP, ISIN, and SEDOL
Integrated Databases
Monthly and daily pricing data
Standard & Poor's and other leading Index Data
Estimates data from Capital IQ and Thomson I/B/E/S
Qualitative content including business descriptions, officer information, and executive compensation
Corporate Actions and Insider and Institutional Holdings
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collected and consolidated financial data from myriad data feeds, including CompuStat, Disclosure, I/B/E/S as well as the price and quote feeds from the major...
data of various quantitative value strategies and value factors based on compustat data from January 1927 until December 2009. Value investing has proven...
with extensive software offerings, including: Bloomberg Capital IQ CRSP/Compustat Datastream MATLAB Microsoft Office (with Excel plugins for Bloomberg,...
managing director of Standard & Poor's Investment Services, president of its Compustat division, and president of its broker/dealer, Standard & Poor's Securities...
database in an anonymous fashion.": 1 As derived by Asker et al. from Compustat and CRSP databases, after certain exclusions including removal of all...
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Research and Data Services network and all its allied databases such as Compustat, CRSP. The school also has access to EconLit, Bloomberg Data and Wind...