Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Useful Data Sets

Before data visualization comes data... and here's a lot of data.

The Data Page

This page provides information on how to collect data from a variety of sources. it also allows you to look at and download a number of data sets that you might find useful in corporate finance and valuation. If you have trouble viewing the data in your browser, you can download the data in excel format. I will try to keep them updated, and include the dates of the updates with the data sets. If you want to see the company-specific information, you can download the data on individual firms below.

Recent additions: While most of the data sets here are based upon U.S. firms, I have added updates for Europe (Western Europe and the UK), Japan and for Emerging Markets (Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe) for a few data items - betas and price multiples. Any company with a market capitalization greater that $ 50 million in US dollar terms should be in the datasets; for the non-US companies, any currency data will be in the local currency unless otherwise specified. You can download the data in excel files but the html files will contain only the US data. While I will update the US data every six months or so, I will update the non-US data once a year. I have also added the archived files from previous years for those of you who want historical data. The data is as of the end of each year.

Useful Data Sets

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