Compustat North America (via Wharton)
Databases
Compustat North America is a database of U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies.
Compustat North America (Standard & Poor’s (McGraw-Hill)) is a database of U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows and supplemental data items. If applicable there is a quarterly update. Non-U.S. and Non-Canadian publicly held companies are not included in this database but are accessible via the Compustat Global database.
Per item, you can follow a fixed procedure to select what type of data, for which period and in what format the data should be provided. Manuals and help are available in the database via ‘Support’ and ‘E-Learning’.
The CRSP and Compustat database have merged into a new dataset (CCM) This merger provides CRSP and Compustat subscribers with a convenient way to link CRSP market and corporate action data with Compustat fundamental data.
Compustat North America is only available via Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS). It is not accessible as a separate database.
Access information
Only Maastricht University email accounts are accepted with the exception of alumni accounts: alumni students are not allowed!