COMPUSTAT® (North America)

Features

• More than 10,000 active companies back to 1950 and 1962 for annual and quarterly data, respectively.
• More than 9,000 inactive (Research) companies.
• Comprehensive company financial data, extensive balance sheet, income statement, and detailed footnotes.
• Data are available in both annual and quarterly formats

File Locations

There are two distinct COMPUSTAT Industrial files: thePrimary, Supplementary, Tertiary File (or PST) and the Full-Coverage (of FC) File. Annual and Quarterly files are available for both types of files.

Primary, Supplementary, Tertiary File contains the largest companies on the New York and American Stock exchanges (including all companies comprising the S&P Industrial Index), as well as utility subsidiaries that were once S&P 500 constituents and companies listed on major exchanges. The file also presents non-industrial companies in a format comparable to industrial companies.

The Full-Coverage File contains the largest NASDAQ National Market System Companies, companies listed on regional exchanges, publicly held companies trading common stock, and wholly owned subsidiaries trading preferred stock or debt.

There is third COMPUSTAT file, the Merged Industrial Research (or MRG) file of research companies. A research company is one that is no longer considered active/actively traded due to bankruptcy, acquisition or merger, leveraged buyout or because it became a private company. The Merged Research File contains companies that have been deleted from the Primary, Supplementary, Tertiary and Full-Coverage active files and moved to the research files. Annual and Quarterly files are available.

Location of annual data: T:\compustat_data\annual\

Location of quarterly data: T:\compustat_data\annual\

Example of how to access can be found at: T:\compustat_data\Sample programs