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Compustat

Description: Standard & Poor's Compustat, Global Vantage, Research Insight, and Emerging Markets Database (EMDB).

Standard & Poor's Compustat (U.S.) and Global Vantage (international) databases contain fundamental financial and price data for both active and inactive publicly traded companies. Compustat goes back annually to 1950, and Global Vantage goes back to 1993.

Standard & Poor's EMDB (Emerging Markets Database) includes market performance, indicators, market capitalization, monthly value traded, local stock market price indexes, and prices, etc., in local currency and U.S. dollars, back to 1995.

Standard & Poor's Research Insight is a versatile, Windows-based front-end to twenty years of Compustat and Global Vantage data that allows screening, report generation, and custom-variable creation. For additional instructions on this database see the Help Sheet.

Content Type: Company Financials & Filings

Subject: Companies, Credit Ratings, Fundamentals, Equities

Access:

  • Current HU faculty, students, and staff

  • Available via WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services
    • HU faculty, doctoral students, and staff researchers may request a WRDS account here.
    • HU graduate, undergraduate and HBS MBA students may use WRDS in the Financial Databases Room.
    • HBS faculty, doctoral students, and staff may contact Baker Research Services.

Note: Use of WRDS is limited to academic and non-commercial research purposes. The right to access licensed databases and copyrighted material on the WRDS system is only for internal or academic research. You may not use data downloaded from WRDS for any commercial endeavor. In addition, you may not reveal, disclose, transfer, or share username and password information with anyone. Additional restrictions apply. See WRDS Terms of Use.

Use of this database implies acceptance of our Copyright and Licensing Restrictions.

 
 
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