Worldscope company data

Worldscope is an international database containing financial profiles, fundamental analysis, and stock performance data. Worldscope takes into consideration the variety of accounting conventions now in use worldwide and presents more than 6,000 data variables in a reformatted design that facilitates comparisons between companies within and across national boundaries. Worldscope data variables include financial variables extracted from source documents, data items computed from fundamental variables, general corporate data, including a brief business description, officers, segment data, major shareholders and auditor information, and accounting data items on a company-specific basis.

For an overview of the number of companies covered by country I have created an Excel file which is available here.

Worldscope is available through (at least) the following two database suppliers:

• LexisNexis:
  The Online help information lists the following: total companies covered is +28,000 active and inactive companies in 54 companies. I called the LexisNexis helpdesk today to ask if this was still information was still current. Unfortunately nobody could tell me if the number of companies covered matches that of Datastream. The frequency of the updates is unclear. Each report covers the last reported 3 years of company data. You can download complete reports or parts of the financial data in excel for each separate report.
  
• Datastream:
  According to the newsletters of Datastream: total companies covered is 59211 of which 36876 are active and 22849 inactive companies in 68 countries. The database is updated each month. 1850 data items from the Worldscope database are covered. Much of the data for the companies can be downloaded to Excel using a single search request. Worldscope has data that for some companies goes back 20 years.

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02:48 PM - 23 December 2009