FactSet Estimates
FactSet Estimates, our pre-eminent global broker estimates database, provides you with insight into an industry where consistency and transparency are at a premium. The FactSet Estimates database covers the markets of more than 55 countries, providing comprehensive consensus-level estimates and statistics with daily updates and history. Continuous updates of premium global estimates and U.S. actual data from leading investment banks and research firms give you real-time access to the most recent estimate data available.
You can access FactSet Estimates through FactSet applications, embedded within your firm's Intranet, or via an XML-based data feed.
Scope and Coverage
| Number of Companies | 17,000+ active companies in the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific |
| Number of Contributors | Approximately 600 |
| Data History | Daily history from 1990 for France; 1997 for the rest of Europe; 2000 for the U.S., Canada, and Asia/Pacific |
| Update Cycle | Daily |
| Estimated Periods | Annual up to 4 years forward; Quarterly up to 12 forward quarters (global) |
Dataset Features:
- Data points include EPS, EPS before and after goodwill, EPS long-term growth, book value, book value restated, cash flow, dividends, EBIT, EBITDA, free cash flow per share, goodwill, net debt, net income, net sales, number of shares, pretax income, price targets, sales, and stock options expense.
- Daily updates let you access the most recent estimates on a daily basis.
- Daily history lets you view estimates for any time period, as of the current day, or as of a single historical date. You can also generate a time series for easy charting.
- Time-defined consensus includes only those estimates that have been changed or actively validated within the last 100 days. You have the option to customize your estimate window as well.
- Multiple EPS measures let you access EPS before and after goodwill for companies outside of North America.
- Flexible access gives you Broker Detail estimates in both snapshot and time-series change history format. Access current and historical data for all countries in a continuous series. FactSet global consensus data is completely integrated into a single database.