Compustat, also known as S&P Compustat, is a database of financial, statistical, and market information on active and inactive global companies throughout the world.https://www.eui.eu/Research/Library/ResearchGuides/Economics/Statistics/DataPortal/Compustat The service was launched by American credit rating agency

Standard & Poor's S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is co ...

(now S&P Global Ratings) in 1962.https://rodneywhitecenter.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/12-16.Roberts.pdf This database provides products directed at institutional investors, universities, bankers, advisors, analysts, and asset/portfolio managers in corporate, M&A, private capital, equity, and

fixed income Fixed income refers to any type of investment under which the borrower or issuer is obliged to make payments of a fixed amount on a fixed schedule. For example, the borrower may have to pay interest at a fixed rate once a year and repay the pr ...

markets. 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). 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 Industry classification or industry taxonomy is a type of economic taxonomy that classifies companies, organizations and traders into industrial groupings based on similar production processes, similar products, or similar behavior in financial m ...

and universe management by GICS, NAICS and SIC * Key market identifiers, including

CUSIP A CUSIP () is a nine-character numeric or alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies a North American financial security (finance), security for the purposes of facilitating Clearing (finance), clearing and settlement (finance), settlement of tr ...

ISIN Isin (, modern Arabic language, Arabic: Ishan al-Bahriyat) is an archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq which was the location of the Ancient Near East city of Isin, occupied from the late 4th millennium Uruk period up until at ...

, and SEDOL Integrated Databases * Monthly and daily pricing data * Standard & Poor's and other 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 Proprietary Data * Capital IQ qualitative data * Standard & Poor’s Stock Reports * Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys * Standard & Poor’s Issuer Credit Ratings

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