Company Info and Financial Statements

The integrated global database Compustat from S&P Global provides balance sheet and market data for active and inactive listed companies in a standardised format.
The following Compustat modules are available:

• Compustat Global & daily updates: Non-U.S. and non-Canadian fundamental and market information on over 33,900 active and inactive publicly held companies
• Compustat North America & daily updates: U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on 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. For most companies, annual history is available back to 1950 and quarterly history back to 1962 with monthly market history back to 1962. Compustat North America files also contain information on aggregates, industry segments, banks, market prices, dividends, and earnings.
• Compustat Historical Segments: supplements the ‘North America’ module with historical data, for over 23,000 North American companies since 1976

Compustat data is provided via the Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) interface. (Access via WRDS)

Keywords: Banks , Company Info and Financial Statements , Indices and Factors , Stock Prices / Market

Access only possible with a WRDS account.
You can find out how to apply for an account here.

LSEG Workspace contains information on commodities, equities, fixed income securities and hedge funds, foreign exchange and money markets, and wealth management.

Various services are available via the Workspace platform, in particular the Datastream database.

The database

• contains tools for navigating news, including videos of live and on-demand equity news broadcasts.
• offers key market data, charts, time series analysis and streaming news from Reuters and other financial institutions and market research companies for price analysis and global indices of individual stocks.
• contains charts and fundamental data, proprietary data and analysis to provide actionable insights into the global stock market.

Keywords: Bonds and fixed Income , Company Info and Financial Statements , Currency Exchange Rates , Deriatives / Options , Indices and Factors , Stock Prices / Markets

Please contact us for access to LSEG Workspace and Datastream.

E-Mail to: lica-data@wiso.uni-koeln.de

Learning Centre:

• https://www.lseg.com/en/training/learning-centre

The I/B/E/S database contains the earnings estimates (EPS) of banks and individual analysts. The estimates are offered to American companies (HSEPSUS) and international companies (HSEPSINT). Explore I/B/E/S on WRDS to access summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, estimates and recommendations. Enhance your research using I/B/E/S, I/B/E/S Global Aggregates, I/B/E/S Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and I/B/E/S Guidance.

Within I/B/E/S, access:

• I/B/E/S Global Aggregates Extract earnings forecasts plus related data for 87 countries and major international indices — global asset allocation, cross-border valuation, sector and industry aggregation and derivatives.
• I/B/E/S Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Effectively evaluate a business and how likely it is to perform in the medium and long terms. KPIs allow researchers to effectively evaluate a business and how likely it is to perform in the medium and long terms.
• I/B/E/S Guidance Directly compare analyst and management expectations on company performance for over 8,200 companies, safe in the knowledge that they are using the same accounting basis for consistent analysis.

(Access via WRDS)

Keywords: Banks , Company Info and Financial Statements

Access only possible with a WRDS account.
You can find out how to apply for an account here.

LSEG Workspace contains information on commodities, equities, fixed income securities and hedge funds, foreign exchange and money markets, and wealth management.

Various services are available via the Workspace platform, in particular the Datastream database.

The database

• contains tools for navigating news, including videos of live and on-demand equity news broadcasts.
• offers key market data, charts, time series analysis and streaming news from Reuters and other financial institutions and market research companies for price analysis and global indices of individual stocks.
• contains charts and fundamental data, proprietary data and analysis to provide actionable insights into the global stock market.

Keywords: Bonds and fixed Income , Company Info and Financial Statements , Currency Exchange Rates , Deriatives / Options , Indices and Factors , Stock Prices / Markets

Please contact us for access to Datastream and LSEG Workspace via e-mail: lica-data(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de

Download der Application:

• https://www.lseg.com/en/data-analytics/products/workspace/download-workspace

LSEG web access:

• http://workspace.refinitiv.com/web/

Learning Centre:

• https://www.lseg.com/en/training/learning-centre

Issues with the Datastream Excel Add-in on Mac: Alternative access via LSEG Web Access is recommended.

• Search for Datastream Chart Studio or DSCHART in the main search field.
• Hover the mouse pointer over the arrow next to the name of any data series.
• In the popup menu, select the option “Find New Series” to access the Datastream Navigator.
• In the Datastream Navigator, enter search terms or start browsing data categories.

Issues with Datastream Excel Add-in when using a VPN client:

• When using a VPN client, error messages may occur when retrieving data via the Datastream Excel Add-in
• In this case, deactivate the VPN client

Questions or issues? Contact us:

WiSo Data Library Team

+49-221-470-3511
lica-datawiso.uni-koeln.de

Morningstar Direct is an investment analysis platform that combines Morningstar's data and institutional research with proprietary and external content, rigorous analysis, data science capabilities, and productivity tools. The database contains information on:

• portfolios
• performance
• flexible currency conversions
• cash flow data
• risk and master data

Keywords: Company Info and Financial Statements

Please contact us for access to Morningstar Direct: lica-data(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de

The database contains international press information, company and financial data, information on individuals from business, politics and current affairs, as well as industry data, country reports and legal information in various original languages (including English, French, Arabic, Russian and Chinese).

Nexis Uni contains data from over 17,000 news, company and legal sources:

• Press: Full texts from several thousand journals, magazines and newspapers. Including newsletters, agency reports, blogs, TV and radio transcripts and records from around the world, including archives.
• News: Articles from several thousand journals, magazines and newspapers from around the world, including archives.
• Companies: Various sources offer research options on companies in different countries, company profiles or specific details such as finances, mergers, acquisitions and annual reports.
• Industries & countries: International industry information, economic articles on individual countries and industry news.
• People: Biographical information on figures in business, politics, entertainment and other leading individuals in specific fields.
• Law: Legal information on cases, decisions and laws, particularly for the Anglo-American region.

Through a unified interface, users can search across all sources and personalize their research with alerts, saved searches and other functions. The platform also includes collaboration tools to support teamwork among students.

Keywords: Comapny Info and Financial Statements , Economy , News and Media

Accessible from the university network (by VPN)

Orbis Europe contains information on around 143 million small, medium-sized and large European companies, banks and insurance companies. Company and investment data as well as financial figures from listed and unlisted companies for the last 10 years are available.

With Orbis, you can analyse individual companies, search for companies with specific characteristics and perform a wide variety of evaluations and comparisons.

The data records contain the following information, among other things:

• standardised financial statement data (consolidated and non-consolidated)
• financial ratios, ratings and creditworthiness indicators
• board members, managing directors and managers
• share prices of listed companies
• detailed corporate affiliations
• industry reports
• M&A transactions from the BvD Zephyr database (on a company basis)
• patent data (on a company basis)
• ESG ratings
• and much more.

Language: English

Update: Monthly

Keywords: Company Info and Financial Statements , Stock Prices / Markets 

Access only possible with a WRDS account.
You can find out how to apply for an account here.

Statista is a statistics portal that compiles data from 170 industries and over 150 countries drawing from various institutes and sources.

The database offers:

• over 1 million statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 different sources
• industry information ranging from agriculture to administration and social affairs
• company information with key figures from over 1,000 companies
• infographics on current topics (Daily Data)

Each statistic includes available metadata, such as source, publication date, and sample size, ensuring transparency and verifiability. Data processing follows scientific standards.
In the “Reports”-section, you will find over 20,000 reports offering consolidated information, analyses, and forecasts on:

• digital and trends
• consumers and brands
• industry and markets
• politics and society
• companies and products
• countries and regions

Keywords: Company Info and Financial Statements , Statistics

Until the end of 2025: Access from the university network (also via VPN)

New from 2026: Access only for university members with an university account (no guest accounts) via Shibboleth

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based platform from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. It integrates data from numerous financial and economic databases into a single interface, allowing users to search, link, and store data uniformly, thereby facilitating comparability and combined data analysis.

Overbiew of data providers

The database offerings are divided into two categories: 

Databases included with the base WRDS subscription (included datasets & analytics):

• Bank Regulatory
• Blockholders
• CBOE
• DMEF
• Dow Jones
• Fama French
• FDIC
• Federal Reserve Bank Reports
• IRI
• OTC Markets
• Penn World Tables
• Philadelphia Stock Exchange
• SEC Disclosure of Order Execution
• TRACE

Databases accessible via WRDS with an additional licence purchased from the respective data provider (Additional Datasets & Analytics), e.g.

• Amadeus/Orbis
• Audit + Compliance
• COMPUSTAT
• CRSP
• Eventus
• I/B/E/S
• MFLinks
• Ownership
• Worldscope…

Keywords: Banks , Bonds and fixed Income , Company Info and Financial Statements , Currency Exchange Rates , Derivatives / Options , Indices and Factors , Stock Prices / Markets , Statistics, Economy

How do I get access into WRDS?

To apply for WRDS access, you must meet the following requirements:

• You are a member (student or employee) of the WiSo faculty.
• You have a valid Uni-Köln identifier (Uni-KIM).

1. Faculty internal application procedure

The following groups of people can apply for a WRDS account:

• Please fill out the appropriate registration form digitally,
• sign it (for student accounts, the signature of the supervising person is also absolutely necessary) and
• send it to lica-data(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de.

Following this, you can create a personal account at WRDS as described below.

2. Personal registration on the WRDS platform

• Open in the web browser: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/register/
• Fill out the online form and select "University of Cologne" in the subscriber field and select your appropriate account type in the User Type field.
• After registration, an email will be sent to the WRDS administrators who will then verify WiSo faculty affiliation.
• Once approved by the WRDS administrators, your personal WRDS account will be created and you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to proceed.

Important notice

If you already have a WRDS account - active or recently inactive - do not request another WRDS account. Use the account-transfer-form to automatically transfer the account or contact the WRDS Support.

• Regulations and explanation for access to WRDS
• Getting Started Guide
• Video Tutorials