S&P Capital IQ – New database with financial and market data

Financial data are now also available from home if you are a CBS student or faculty. Try out S&P Capital IQ if you are looking for the most recent data on financial markets or time series of key financials or commodity prices etc.

02/22/2022

Screenshot from the database S6P Capital IQ

Are you looking for the most recent data on financial markets or time series of key financials or commodity prices? If so, S&P Capital IQ, our brand acquisition and one of the leading financial databases, would be a good place to start. 

The web-based S&P Capital IQ platform provides highly structured, in-depth financial and company data, as well as data on markets, industries, and people. S&P Capital IQ covers among other things:

  • Companies: detailed coverage of 63.000 public companies and 4.5 million private companies, totaling 99% of global market capitalization.
  • Research reports: company and industry research reports from various contributors and publishers, including brokerage, consulting, and research organizations.
  • Transactions: detailed transaction coverage for M&A deals and IPOs
  • People Intelligence: profiles of more than one million professionals, including private and public company executives, board members, and investment professionals

Although S&P Capital IQ is a web-based platform, you can also access the database through an Excel plug-in, which allows you to undertake multifaceted analyses of companies and markets.

Getting started

To access the database, you need to register.
Check out how to register and find other relevant details
Get more help to navigation etc. in our S&P Capital IQ guide.

Other options

CBS Library also provides access to other financial databases, but S&P Capital IQ is the only one that is available both on and off campus. 
Find more financial databases (if you click more info, you will get more details on the specifique database)

The page was last edited by: CBS Library // 02/22/2022