Research Databases
| Name | Description | Available to | Access Instructions | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audit Analytics | Audit Analytics provides information on Auditor Information, Sarbanes-Oxley Disclosures, Compliance Disclosures, Litigation, and Corporate Governance data for over 20,000 public companies and more than 1,500 accounting firms. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| Bloomberg | Bloomberg is a comprehensive, online service for global financial information that includes: Company information (stock performance, news, balance sheets, historical data, officers, evaluations, etc.); information on U.S. and foreign markets; extensive sets of data and statistics on industries, companies, etc.; numerous options for analyzing and graphing data. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Trading Room |
| Bloomberg Tax | Bloomberg Tax provides users with online access to statutes, regulations, tax codes, court cases, and expert analysis, articles, and commentary on tax planning. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| BoardEx | BoardEx is a database of companies and board members in the United States and selected countries. BoardEx provides a web based desktop tool that lets you analyze the relationships between and amongst 380,000 leading business people. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| Business Insights: Essentials | Business Insights: Essentials provides in-depth information on U.S. and international businesses, industries and products. Included are company and industry profiles, financial data, investment reports, business periodicals, interactive charting and comparison tools, and more. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Calcbench | Provides access to Financial statements, XBRL data, Proxy statements, textual analysis data. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | ATC |
| CapitalIQ | Capital IQ Platform is a web and Excel-based research product that combines deep information on companies, markets, and people worldwide with robust tools for fundamental analysis, idea generation, and workflow management. Capital IQ Platform is deployed at over 2,700 leading investment banks, fund managers, private capital firms, and corporations worldwide. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Trading Room |
| CapitalIQ NetAdvantage | Standard & Poor's Net Advantage provides access to S&P's Company and Industry Surveys, Stock Guides, Dividend Records, Mutual Fund Ratings, Corporation Records and much more. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| CCH Intelliconnect | CCH Intelliconnect provides access to a full range of tax information. Federal tax information includes briefings, tax codes, interpretations and rulings, and more. State tax information includes state tax guides and reporters, multistate tax info, and practice tools. Financial and estate planning and international tax treaty information is also included. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Claritas 360 | Claritas 360 is on the Kantar SRDS Media Planning Platform. It is a web application that allows users to measure consumer demand and evaluate locations and markets. It provides users with information for finding best customers, customer locations, and how best to engage with them. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Compustat Global | Provides financial and market data, focusing on the non-U.S. and non-Canadian marketplace. Database covers total of 28,500 active companies, representing over 90% of the world’s market capitalization, including 90% of the Asian market cap, 90% of the Indian market cap, 95% of the Taiwanese market cap and 95% of the European market cap. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| Consumer Expenditure Survey | The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and household characteristics. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| CountryData Online (CDO, PRS Group) | CountryData Online (CDO, PRS Group) offers political, economic, financial, and social data back to 1984 (in most cases) for over 140 countries. Updated monthly, CDO also includes risk ratings from International Country Risk Guide, as well as forecasts and geographic data from Political Risk Services. More... | Faculty/Students | Available through both Library and Trading Room | Trading Room |
| CRSP Indexes Database | CRSP provides a wide range of indexes that can be used as benchmarks of market performance. Broad market indexes are provided with CRSP stock files. Additional market indexes, stock portfolios, bond indexes, and inflation series are provided with the CRSP Index files. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| CRSP Mutual Funds Database | Includes a history of each mutual fund’s name, investment style, fee structure, holdings, and asset allocation. Also included are monthly total returns, monthly total net assets, monthly/daily net asset values, and dividends. All data items are for publicly traded open-end mutual funds and begin at varying times between 1962 and 2008. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| CRSP/Compustat (North America) Merged Database | The CRSP/COMPUSTAT Merged Database allows for concurrent database access to CRSP’s stock data and Compustat’s fundamental data. The database provides the historical matching of CRSP price, distribution, and total return data with Compustat fundamental data. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| D&B Business Browser | D&B Business Browser provides company and industry information, as well as information about company executives. Over 18 million companies, including international companies, are profiled, and well over 25 million company executives. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| D&B Key Business Ratios | D&B Key Business Ratios (KBR), provided by Mergent, provides immediate online access to recent competitive industry benchmarking data for public and private companies. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Demographics Now | Demographics Now is a comprehensive business and residential research tool. Users can compare the demographics and market potential of United States geographies, produce comprehensive business/residential lists and detailed demographic reports. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Doing Business Project from the World Bank and IFC | The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Eikon | Provides access to analytics and financial content going back to 1950s, including comprehensive company overview pages with news, event updates and macro-economic data. More... | Faculty | Contact ATC | ATC |
| Executive Compensation Data (Execucomp) | Execucomp is a part of Compustat (North America) database and tracks compensation for companies within the S&P 1500. Top executives’ compensation data since 1992 are available. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| FactSet | FactSet is a complete source for financial information. It combines more than 200 databases from industry-leading suppliers and powerful analytical tools into a single information system. FactSet has more thn 50 applications that allow users to analyze companies, portfolios, markets, and economies seamlessly. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Trading Room |
| Hoover's Company Profiles | Hoover's Company Profiles features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| I/B/E/S | The IBES database contains detail and consensus estimates of up to 26 forecast measures for more than 70,000 companies in more than 90 countries. Detail Earnings Estimate History contains forecast changes dating back to 1982 for US companies and 1987 for non-US companies. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| IBISWorld Industries and Markets | Searchable by industry, keyword, company name, and NAICS code, IBIS World Industries and Markets contains United States and Specialized Industry reports, selected Global Industry reports, and UK Brexit Impact Statements. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| IHS Connect | IHS Connect provides continuously updated analysis of general business conditions, economic information and general risk assessment for countries, continents and regions. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Investext from Mergent | Investext provides investment research reports written by analysts at leading investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| ISS Directors Data | ISS Director Data allows investors to access an important but non-traditional source of information at a Board level and across the directors to provide a lens into the boardroom. Covers more than 150,000 global directors across 110+ countries, going back to 2013. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| ISS Incentive Lab Compensation | Provides access to executive compensatoin data on incentive awards, including performance metrics, performance goals and payout structures. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| ISS Voting Results | Provides access to vote results data, institutional voting policies, shareholder meeting results. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. (KLD) | KLD provides research on the social and environmental records of publicly traded companies to institutional investors worldwide. KLD Social Ratings outlines the criteria by which KLD measures corporate social responsibility. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| MRI-Simmons Insights | MRI-Simmons Insights provides access to consumer demographic, psychographic, brand preference, and media data from the Simmons National Consumer Survey. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Mergent Archives | Mergent Archives provides access to almost 100 years of Moody Corporate and Municipal Manuals, and more than 85 years of Annual Reports for companies across the globe and offers 30 years of archived KBR data, in PDF format. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Mergent Intellect | Mergent Intellect offers comprehensive data on companies, industries, demographics, consumer lifestyles, people, and jobs. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Mergent Online | Mergent Online contains the following Mergent Manuals: Bank & Finance, Industrial, International, Public Utility & Transportation, OTC Industrial and OTC Unlisted. Inactive (no longer traded) companies, on both US and international exchanges, are also included. The BondViewer contains a wide-range of bond data.. The D&B 20 Million Plus Private Company database is also included. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| Morningstar Direct | Morningstar provides detailed information on more than 20,000 mutual funds, equities, ETFs, and hedge funds, including historical data (monthly, quarterly and annual), fund composition, portfolio screening, risk adjusted star-ratings, investment style boxes, and analyst reviews and commentaries. More... | Faculty/Students | Contact TR for details | Trading Room |
| National Center for Education Statistics | National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. Free resource. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| PrivCo | PrivCo provides private company financial data including M&A activity, investor information, private equity and venture capital data. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | Library |
| SDC Platinum | SDC Platinum is a financial transactions database that provides detailed information on new issues, mergers and acquisitions, etc. The subscription includes Worldwide Mergers and Acquisitions, Global Corporate New Issues, and Joint Ventures. More... | Faculty | WRDS | ATC |
| SeekEdgar | Search SEC Filings for financial and non-financial information such as board members, executive compensation, audit committee, compensation committee, etc. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions | ATC |
| Thomson Reuters Insider Filing | Capture all U.S. insider activity as reported on Forms 3, 4, 5, and 144 in line-by-line detail. A unique cleansing process is used by Thomson Reuters that adds value by making systematic interpretations on the accuracy of as-reported data and inserts “cleansed” fields for comparison. More... | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| Thomson Reuters Institutional (13f) Holdings | Access Institutional Common Stock Holdings and Transactions, as reported on Form 13F filed with the SEC by institutional managers with $100 million or more in Assets Under Management. | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |
| Thomson Reuters Mutual Fund Holdings | Thomson-Reuters Mutual Fund Holdings database provides security holding information for all registered mutual funds that report their holdings with the SEC, plus 3,000 global funds. Reported securities include all NYSE/AMEX/NASDAQ, Toronto, and Montreal common stocks. | Faculty/Students | WRDS | ATC |