Worldscope is a global company accounts “database” from Refinitiv and a key research resource for company information. It is accessed using Datastream and contains active and inactive companies.
Worldscope is designed to compare companies that report under different accounting rules worldwide. In addition, it records company information using four templates: banks, industrial companies, insurance companies and other financial companies. This means that many of Worldscope’s datatypes only have values for a subset of the companies covered (e.g. US companies).
Worldscope features
- Detailed standardised financials: comparisons of financial information of companies from different industries around the globe.
- Long history: 35+ years for key developed markets back to 1980 and 25+ years for emerging markets.
- Extensive coverage: 96,000+ companies in 120+ countries, including full standardised coverage of 30+ developed and emerging markets and 99% of global market capitalisation.
- High data quality: Thousands of automated checks backed by manual quality screening by linguist accounting experts.
- Point In Time: Worldscope Point In Time database provides the user with the date a value was added or updated within Worldscope.
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