Datastream: Worldscope (fundamentals)

Worldscope (access via Datastream)

Worldscope is the global company accounts “database” from Refinitiv and thus a key research resource for company information. It is accessed using Datastream (active and inactive companies), 

Worldscope is designed to allow comparison of 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).

For full details of the Worldscope methodology and the definitions of the datatypes you can consult the Worldscope Data Definitions Guide (Issue 14)

Worldscope in brief:

• Detailed standardized financials – View comparisons of financial information of companies from different industries around the globe.
• Long history – Includes 35+ years for key developed markets back to 1980 and 25+ years for emerging markets.
• Extensive coverage – Over 96,000 companies in 120+ countries including full standardized coverage of over 30 developed and emerging markets and 99% of global market capitalization.
• High data quality – Thousands of automated checks backed by manual quality screening by our 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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