Standard Compustat databases have been expanded to include data history starting in 1979. This will initially provide up to 30 years of annual and quarterly fundamental data as well as monthly and daily market data. This data history expansion enables you to access more historical data in a base package than competitors can offer, making the database a more efficient and effective solution for your quantitative research needs.

Access Extensive Reporting & Screening Capabilities

Reporting & Templates - Charting & Screening - Research & Analysis

With Research Insight, you have access to over 300 predefined company and industry reports, saving you time and adding depth to your analysis. All reports and templates are available through the Open Report and Open Template menus within the Research Insight desktop and Microsoft Excel add-in. Following are examples of the predefined reports and templates you have access to with Research Insight:

• Company Fundamental Analysis - Realize results by executing deep, historical company analysis.
• Debt Analysis - Easily evaluate risk by performing debt analysis to uncover investment opportunities.
• Multiple Regression Analysis - Conduct effortless regression analysis helping you predict future performance.
• Industry Specific Analysis - Extend analysis by benchmarking company operating performance relative to the rest of the industry.
• Portfolio Analysis - Make intelligent investment decisions by assessing the relative market share of your portfolio.

Efficient Data Integration

Proprietary & Third Party Data Integration—Custom Expressions—Query Development

Research Insight is fully customizable allowing you to realize new investment opportunities and conduct intelligent research and analysis. With Research Insight you can:

• Extend analysis by importing your own proprietary data and models into a user database.
• Uncover new opportunities by formulating custom expressions.
• Re-engineer your research by building complex screens.
• Broaden your analysis by developing queries using the thousands of data items, ratios and concept calculations available.

At the heart of Research Insight are Compustat’s world-renowned databases.

Deployed at the majority of leading quantitative investment firms and academic institutions, Compustat is the premier source of global fundamental database for backtesting and other quantitative analysis. Compustat covers 99% of the world's market capitalization, and provides unrivaled historical and point-in-time information on over 68,000 global securities. Our value-added data collection and presentation process removes reporting variability and biases to ensure that comparability exists among similar types of data items, as well as the results you get when you run your models and analysis.

Our Strengths

• Extensive Population
- Gain access to 4,000 financial and supplemental data items for over 41,000 active public companies representing 99% of the world's market capitalization, as well as over 27,000 inactive companies.
• Comprehensive Data
- Obtain income statement, balance sheet and cash flow data with Annual, Quarterly and Year-to-Date periodicities in Industrial and Financial Services industry formats and, updated via intraday transactions.
• Expansive Coverage
- Get preliminary and final data that shows all values obtained in the data collection, including Original and Changed data – with observation dates starting in 1986 for North American companies and 1996 for international companies.
• Manage Biases
- See data without look-ahead or survivorship bias. Know when data was known to the database and marketplace, and use an inactive population of companies that were active during your analysis.
  

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