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Compustat: Available Files


Standard & Poor's COMPUSTAT is a database of financial, statistical, and market information. It provides more than 340 annual and 120 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Flow of Funds, and supplemental data items on more than 10,000 active and 9,700 inactive companies. With COMPUSTAT, you can customize the data output for virtually any financial application. For more information about COMPUSTAT products, click here.

  • The current version of Compustat data is for the period ending 2000.7.20.
  • The new files for each year are typically received in August.
We receive the following COMPUSTAT character ASCII files:
  1. annual      (Industrial Files: bank, Canadian, fco, pst, research, back data files)
  2. quarterly  (Industrial Files: bank, Canadian, fco, PST, research, back data files)
  3. bif (business information files)
  4. indexff (annual index fundamentals file)
  5. naicsf (North American Industrial Classification System)
  6. pde (price dividend earning file)

  1. annual  (file: P:\1. Academic Resources\CB_Data\cstat\annual\ )
  2. quarterly  (file: P:\1. Academic Resources\CB_Data\cstat\quarterly\ )
  3. bif  (file: P:\1. Academic Resources\CB_Data\cstat\bif\ )
  4. indexff  (file: P:\1. Academic Resources\CB_Data\cstat\indexff\ )
  5. naicsf  (file: P:\1. Academic Resources\CB_Data\cstat\naicsf\ )
  6. pde  (file: P:\1. Academic Resources\CB_Data\cstat\pde\ )
Also, see CSTAT List