Compustat® Financials

Compustat Financials provides standardized North American and global financial statements and market data for over 80,000 active and inactive publicly traded companies that financial professionals have relied on for over 50 years.

Compustat allows investment professionals, academic researchers, and industry analysts to combine deep history with robust and consistent data standardization into their research and backtesting to produce valuable insights and generate alpha. With historical data for North America as far back as 1950 and point-in-time snapshots beginning in 1987, Compustat provides you with insight into company financial performance across many different economic cycles not available anywhere else.

Compustat Financials includes:

  • Over 3,000 standardized annual, quarterly, year-to-date, and semi-annual financial items covering income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, segment^, and ratio data
  • Industry specific data covering 12 industries^
  • Daily and monthly market data, including security pricing, dividends, and splits
  • Corporate Tracker providing corporate action and security identifier history
  • Point-in-time snapshot^ data providing all changes to fundamental items and their associated point dates

^Available for North American companies

Vendor information

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.
  • Primary Entity TypeCompany
  • Coverage Count80,000+
  • Geographic CoverageGlobal
  • Industry CoverageConsumer, Energy and Utilities, Financials, Healthcare, Industrials, Materials, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
  • History Initiated1950
  • Earliest Significant Coverage1950
  • Point In TimeYes
  • Point In Time DetailsAll changes since 1987. Alongside change date in North America only.
  • Data SourcePublicly available documents, company filings, annual reports, press releases as well as Korean and Japanese local data feeds. Market data is provided by the 3rd party market data aggregator
  • Field Count1,000s
  • Delivery ChannelAPI, Cloud, Desktop, Feed
  • Delivery PlatformAPI, ClariFI®, Marketplace Extract, Marketplace Workbench, S&P Capital IQ, Snowflake, Xpressfeed™
  • Reporting FrequencyDaily
  • Dataset LatencyIntraday
  • Dataset Size (GB)750


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