An Investment Bank Leverages Market Intelligence to Zero in on Attractive Targets

May 17, 2024
Gain one-stop access to a host of essential datasets and toolsS&P Capital IQ Pro is a one-stop desktop platform for essential intelligence, offering access to:The Premium Financials dataset providing standardized data for 5,000+ financial, supplemental and industry-specific data items for 150,000+ companies globally, including 95,000+ active and inactive companies across multiple industries.[1] Data is available at numerous frequencies and point-in-time representations of a financial period include press releases, original filings and restatements.

The Private Company dataset covering 50+ million company profiles, 9.6+ million with recent financial statements, 85+ million details on private company professionals, 3+ million corporate structures relationships and 1+ early stage companies supported by data from Crunchbase.

Transactions profiling approximately two million transactions captured across the globe that includes:

  • M&A, private placement, venture capital, PIPE, spin-off, bankruptcies, share buyback programs and equity/debt public offerings.
  • A synopsis, deal size, company participants, advisors and associated filings.
  • Up to 10 years of history.

Key Developments providing information on one million+ key developments based on over 160 standardized topics. This includes:

  • 20,000+ news sources, including press releases, regulatory filings, company web sites, web mining and call transcripts.
  • Reliable time stamps and metadata, which enables users to analyze historical topics and the impact on a company’s stock price.
  • Public, private and investment firms globally with topics such as earnings announcements, dividends, board meetings, customer announcements, organization structural changes and more.

The Global Machine Readable Filings dataset providing parsed text for global annual and interim reports broken into the various sections identified by a company, with extraneous information such as page number, images and tables removed. The dataset includes:

Textual Transcripts in a machine-readable format with metadata tagging enabling users to easily combine data from earnings, M&A announcements, company conference presentations and special calls with traditional datasets to formulate unique, proprietary analytics. Users can seamlessly link the Speaker ID to the S&P Capital IQ Estimates and Professionals databases to help identify sell-side analysts’ revisions.

  • Historical transcripts data is available back to 2004.
  • Coverage includes 10,600+ companies and growing, with 100% coverage of the S&P 500, Russell 1000, and FTSE 100 and 95% coverage of the S&P Euro 350.

Tech-savvy tools that enable users to quickly screen and do deep dives on acquisition targets, competitors and peers.

  • A smart screener enables users to instantly find information across companies, news, documents, research, transcripts and investor presentations.
  • Sophisticated “Find Buyers” and “Targeting” tools enable users to quickly search and rank potential M&A or private placement investors based on detailed criteria.
  • Quick Comps” helps users identify the ideal universe for trading comps and “Competitors” for viewing peer groups.
  • The Maps tool lets users build a bird’s-eye view of the market.

An Excel-plugin and suite of office tools lets users power their proprietary models and streamline presentations

[1] Coverage as of January 2023.

See what the market thinks about industries and companies

The Aftermarket Research collection features 30+ million reports from 1,800+ global investment research providers, including small- to middle-market brokers, to help users gain essential perspectives on the companies, sectors and industries they track.

Users can scan based on numerous fields, including ticker, analyst, contributors, asset class and industry.

Searches can be saved for quick retrieval, and users can learn about a report of interest before downloading, using precision search capabilities to evaluate:

  • Relevancy: Locate relevant reports, ranked according to keyword search relevancy.
  • Table of Contents: View a page-by-page summary of sections and tables in each report.
  • Document Thumbnails: Preview the contents and layout of a report before downloading.
  • Keywords in Context: Discover the context for a specific keyword or phrase of interest.
  • Multi-Preview Options: Compare and contrast multiple reports using keyword mentions, table of contents and report synopsis.

Gain deep insights on developments in the TMT space

Kagan, a group within Market Intelligence, provides global TMT coverage, helping clients anticipate changes in today’s technology market with news, data, forecasts and research reports covering APAC, Europe and the Americas.

The team covers a wide array of technologies used to deliver fixed and mobile broadband, broadcast and streaming video, IoT, VR/AR and OTT services.

Proprietary research includes sector-level analysis and estimates, M&A analysis, company rankings and market share of major industry players and a review of business strategies.

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