Provides detailed company financial information for US and international public and private companies and investments firms. Great for financial statement analysis, comparable analysis, sector analysis, and charting. Also includes 40+ million investment analyst research reports (some with SWOT analyses) from more than 1,800 firms including top global investment banks like Barclays, Citi, J.P. Morgan, and Wells Fargo, as well as regional providers and independent brokers.
Most databases and financial web sites provide only a few years of stock price history. Daily stock price history is available in relatively fewer sources.
As it relates to investments, Beta is a statistical measure of the relative volatility of a stock, fund, or other security in comparison with the market as a whole. The beta for the market is 1.00. Stocks with betas above 1.0 are more responsive to the market, but are also more risky investments. Stocks with a beta below 1.0 tend to move in the opposite direction of the market.
Beta is available in the following resources:
Data, reports, and analysis on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, special situations, and exchange-traded funds.