This document provides an introduction to using Capital IQ, a financial database. It outlines the key features of Capital IQ including company profiles, financials, industry analysis, and competitor comparisons. The session demonstrates how to search for company and industry information, analyze financial ratios and export results. Other useful databases for company and industry research such as OneSource, Factiva, and Marketline are also introduced.
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Introduction to Capital IQ
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FNCE201
Introduction to Capital IQ
Jiaxin Low,
Research Librarian, Finance
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Learning Outcomes
• By the end of this session, you should be able
to:
– Find and extract company information
– Find and extract industry information
– Compare different companies in the same
industry
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What is Capital IQ?
• Financial database used by financial institutions,
advisory firms and corporations
• Provides:
– Private and public company information
– Executive profiles
– Industry analysis
– Economic data
– Basic commodities information
– Estimates
– Market intelligence
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What can I find on companies?
• Profile – “tearsheet”
• Competitors
• Financial information
• Peer analysis
• Filings and annual reports
• …
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Quick Report
• Search for Mastercard
• Go to Company Summary > Tearsheet
• Generate a Quick Report
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Charting financial information
• Go to
Financials/Valuation >
view Ratios
• Question:
How do I chart Return
on Equity and Return
on Assets from 2012 to
2015?
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Quick Comps
• Go to Peer Analysis >
Quick Comps
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Quick Comps
• Save this set to add more companies
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CREATING YOUR OWN COMP SET
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Company Screening
3 main steps:
1) Set criteria for search
2) Retrieve results list of companies
3) Select Display Columns to get more
information on those companies
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Export results
• Export all, or current page (50/250 results). Sort
results before exporting “Top 50”, etc)
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Export results
• “Save to List” to add to saved Comp Set
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OneSource
• Database with company and industry data
• Coverage: global, with 5 years of historical
financial information
• Concurrent users: 10
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Factiva
• Mainly known for news
• But has sections for company and industry
research
• Coverage: worldwide
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Industry info:
• News
• Top participants by sales
• Industry averages and ratios
• Trade associations websites
• Peer comparison
• Analysis (Top 10 by…, industry reports)
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JP Morgan Equities Reports
• Read existing analysis of companies and
equities for reference
• Has some industry analysis
• Useful for valuation of companies
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Finance Research Guide
• http://researchguides.smu.edu.sg/finance
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Need more help?
• All research guides:
http://researchguides.smu.edu.sg/
• Email: library@smu.edu.sg
• Schedule a consultation
(http://jiaxin.youcanbook.me)