Capital IQ (Gies only)
What does it contain: profiles of 750,000 private and public firms worldwide including financials, officers and directors (people) , ownership, transactions, securities, key developments, estimates, filings, news, comparables analysis and more.
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You may screen for companies or other criteria. The training video on screening techniques is here. You must be in the database to view it.
The Market Information Lab has a good video on screening for deals (transactions). Video is almost 17 minutes long, but gives several examples using scenarios.
What does it provide: a platform that features market trends, company financial and deals data, private equity and venture capital, breaking news, and some reports by leading analysts and firms.
Note: you must sign up for an account first, using your IL Net ID. It may take awhile for the registration to complete.
WRDS is a platform with finance-related datasets as separate modules. WRDS itself is not a database.
Among the datasets that would be useful for this class:
CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices) - annual compilations of equities listed on NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ exchanges.
Compustat - fundamentals for US and Globally
Dealscan - syndicated loans
Students in Finance 583 may access the data once a class account has been established.