Compustat provides balance sheet and market data of active and non-active listed companies in a standardized form. (Acces 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.

Eikon is a service mainly for financial experts with information on commodities, equities, fixed-income securities and hedge funds, on the foreign exchange & money market and on wealth management.

Various services are available via the Eikon platform, in particular the Datastream database and the Worldscope database. The database contains tools for navigating news including videos of live and on-demand equity news broadcasts. It provides key market data, charts, time series analysis and streaming news from Reuters and other financial institutions and market research firms for price analysis and global indices of individual stocks. It also includes charts and fundamentals, proprietary data and analysis to provide actionable insights into the global equity market.

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

Only for members of the WiSo factual database agreement

Access to Datastream and LSEG Eikon is provided via a terminal. During the coronavirus pandemic, access is handled remotely via AnyDesk software.

Please contact us for further information.

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.

Morningstar Direct provides comprehensive data on investments worldwide. The database contains data points on portfolios, performance, risk and master data.

Keywords: Company Info and Financial Statements

Access only for members of the WiSo factual database agreement.

For further information please contact us.

(formerly LexisNexis/Economy)

The database contains international press releases, company and financial information, information on people from business, politics and current affairs, sector data, country reports and legal information.

Keywords: Comapny Info and Financial Statements , Economy

Accessible from the university network (by VPN)

Orbis Europe contains information from European companies, banks and insurance companies. Company and shareholding data as well as financial figures for listed and unlisted companies from the last 10 years are available.

With Orbis you can analyse individual companies, search for companies with certain characteristics and carry out a wide range of evaluations and comparisons.
The following information is contained in the data records:

• 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 information on company networks
• Industry reports
• M&A transactionen from the BvD Zephyr database (on a company basis)
• Patent data (on a company basis)
• ESG ratings
• and much more

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 bundles statistical data from various institutes and sources. The database offers:

• Statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 different sources
• Sector information from agriculture to administration and social affairs
• Company information with key figures of over 1000 companies
• Information graphics on current topics

Reports bundle all relevant statistics on a specific topic.

For each statistic, the available metadata such as source, publication date, number of respondents, etc. are published and thus make the data on Statista verifiable. Data sets are prepared according to scientific criteria.

Further more there is an access to the following databases:

• eCommerce Insights : Detailed information for 39,000+ online stores and marketplaces, 70+ KPIs per store, revenue analytics and forecasts

• Consumer Insights (until 2022 called Statista Global Consumer Survey) : Insights on consumer attitudes and behavior worldwide, 2,000,000+ interviews, 15,000+ brands

Keywords: Company Info and Financial Statements , Statistics

Accessible from the university network (by VPN)

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) is a web-based retrieval tool of Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. WRDS provides a business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform to global institutions enabling comprehensive thought leadership, historical analysis, and insight into the latest innovations in academic research. Search, combine and save information from various databases and different data providers via a singular search interface or use your own software to connect with the database.

See list of data vendors

WRDS consists of two different kinds of databases:

1. Databases that are included automatically when subscribing to WRDS (included datasets & analytics): Bank Regulatory, Blockholders, CBOE, DMEF, Dow Jones, Fama French, FDIC, Federal Reserve Bank Reports, IRI, OTC Markets, Penn Wold Tables, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, SEC Disclosure of Order Execution, TRACE.
2. Databases that can be included in WRDS search with a separate license with the data providers (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.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