Introduction to Compustat | Part 1

Our doctoral-level expert guides you through an overview of Compustat data on WRDS:

  • What is Compustat?
  • Coverage
  • Important types of data in Compustat

Compustat provides more than 500 company-level fundamentals, including items such as Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Flow of Funds. It also offers an even larger number of supplemental data items for more than 47,000 active and 37,000 inactive companies.