United States Statistics

Offers screening of over 200 data items for each stock including performance indicators like earnings predictability. Earlier data:O'Neill Microforms HG4501. V26.

Available in O'Neill Library, workstation D2. Restricted to current BC community. Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. 30+ years of extensive data.

Beginning December 5th 2022, WRDS is requiring Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) by Duo Security.
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Databases of financial, statistical, and market information for North America and Global. They provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Statement of CashFlows, and supplemental data items on more than 7,500 publicly held companies. The Compustat / Capital IQ databases include:

- Compustat: Compustat Fundamentals provides standardized North American and global financial statement and market data for over 80,000 active and inactive publicly traded companies that financial professionals have relied on for over 50 years, including Execucomp
- Capital IQ: delivers comprehensive fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions to over 4,200 investment management firms, investment banks, private equity funds, advisory firms, corporations, and universities worldwide
- SNL: Research granular regulatory financial data for 16,000+ operating and 29,000+ global historical holding, banks, and credit unions.
- Tools: include formatted financial statements and ratios

WRDS password required. BC Faculty, PhD and Masters level students may set up accounts directly from the WRDS web site. Faculty may set up class accounts by selecting class for type of account.

FactSet provides access to data and analytics on global financial and economic markets and companies, including financial data on 70,000+ public and private companies worldwide, about 2,000 historical financial metrics for over 70 countries, and historical financial data on 5,000 global indices.
Access Requirements: Limited to academic, noncommercial use by Boston College students and faculty. You must create a personal account using your Boston College email address.

Company (public and private) and industry information including extensive financial data, S&P Industry Surveys, Stock Reports and more. Covers most recent 5 years.