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The Datastream database contains a comprehensive market data for over 63,000 quotes (approx. 45,000 companies) worldwide, and 12,000 global market indexes. Datastream also has extensive details on fundamental indicators such as earnings, dividends, and sales.
The Datastream market data provides a "rolling" 10 years of daily historical data.
Datastream’s information covers over 50 markets and 150 countries, with a key focus on emerging and pre-emerging markets.
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AdjustmentFactor
The stock split which has occurred on that day, not a cumulative factor.
ADRIndicator
Indicates companies which have American Depository Receipts trading on a U.S. exchange. If a company has ADRs, an "X" would be provided in this field.
AnnualizedDividendRate
The rolling 12-month dividend amount.
Beta
A coefficient that measures an equities relative volatility compared to the markets.
BetaCorrelation
A statistical measure of the degree to which two variables are related in this case the variables being the market and a particular security.
BreadthIndex
The number equities expressed as a percentage which had trading activity for that day.
CashEarningsPerShare
Cash earnings on a per share basis for the current period for a particular issue.
CashEarningsPerShareDate
Date of the earnings per share.
CashFlow
Net income plus depreciation and other non-cash charges synonymous with cash earnings for a company.
CommonSharesOutstanding
The current number of common shares outstanding for an issue.
CountryCode
A code that determines which country a security resides in.
CurrencyCode
A code that determines which currency an issue is being traded in.
CurrentCurrencyCode
A code that determines what the current currency the issue is being traded in.
CurrentPeriodAnnual
Code used to denote annual data.
CurrentPeriodDaily
Code used to denote daily data.
CurrentPeriodMonthly
Code used to denote monthly data.
CurrentPeriodQuarterly
Code used to denote quarterly data.
CurrentPeriodWeekly
Code used to denote weekly data.
CUSIP
Nine digit CUSIP number for issue identification.
CUSIP6
First six digits of the CUSIP number.
DatastreamCode
A code used by Datastream to identify that issue
DatastreamIndex
A code used to identify an index in Datastream.
DCN
Disclosure Company Number.
DividendAmount
The dividend amount paid for the past year.
DividendAmountCurrent
Returns the Last dividend amount Paid.
DividendCover
Dividend Coverage Ratio.
DividendCurrencyCurrent
Currencyofthe Current Dividend Amount
DividendExDate
The time interval between the announcement and payment of a dividend an investor who buys shares during that interval will not receive a dividend payment it will instead go to the seller.
DividendExDateCurrent
Provides the last ex-dividend date
DividendIndex
Dividend amount paid by the composite of an index.
DividendPaymentDate
The date that a dividend has been paid.
DividendPaymentDateCurrent
The date that the last dividend was paid.
DividendPerShareFYREnd
The total amount of dividends paid over the company’s fiscal year.
DividendPerShareFYREndDate
The Company’s fiscal year end date for the dividend per share payout.
DividendTaxCode
The tax code associated with a companies dividend (i.e. country, dividend type).
DividendTaxCodeCurrent
The tax code associated with a company’s last dividend payment.
DividendType
Code that identifies the type of dividend the company is paying (stock or cash).
DividendTypeCurr
Code that identifies the type of dividend the company paid last (stock or cash).
DividendYield
The percentage yield an issue is paying out on an annual basis for dividends.
EarningsIndex
The level of earnings as a percentage past a certain point for an index.
EarningsYield
The portion of a company's profit paid on each share of common stock expressed as a percentage.
EntityKey
A unique identifying key for each company, issue, index, quote, etc.
EntityName
The Entity Name represents the name of the Company, Issue, Quote, etc.
EntitySubType
Indicates the subclass of entity within the Entity type class.
EntityType
Indicates the type of Entity - e.g. Company, Issue, Quote, Index, etc.
EPSConsensusForecastPeriodFYR1
The Earnings Forecast for next fiscal year.
EPSConsensusForecastPeriodFYR2
Earnings forecast for the fiscal year two years out.
EPSFYREnd
Earnings for the past Fiscal Year end.
EPSFYREndDate
The Company’s fiscal year end for earnings.
EPSLast12Months
A trailing 12 months earning value.
EPSLast12MonthsDate
First EPS date for the trailing 12 month earnings value.
EPSMeanFYR1
The mean estimate for the next fiscal years earnings estimates.
EPSMeanFYR2
The mean estimate for the fiscal year two years out earnings estimates.
EquityStatus
Code that distinguishes living and dead securities.
EuroConversionDate
Euro Conversion Date is the date that a company converted to the Euro from its native currency.
Exchange
The exchange a quote or issue is listed on.
ExDividendAdjustment
The fall in the price that is equivalent to the dividend payment
FiscalPeriod
Time period associated with the data.
FiscalYearEndDate
The date of the last Fiscal Year End for the company.
FYREndMonth
The month that the companies fiscal year ends in.
FYREndMonthCurr
The current month that a companies fiscal year ends in. Useful if it has changed recently.
FYRTransitionMonth
The month in which the company changes fiscal year.
GeographyGroupCode
Code that determines the companies geographic region.
InactiveDate
The date an issue has gone inactive.
IndustryGroupCode
A code used to determine the industry group a company belongs to.
InstrumentType
The type of investment instrument.
ISIN
Identification Number
LastDividendDate
The date associated with the last dividend paid.
LastNationalCurrencyDate
Last National Currency Date is the last date that a company was still reporting in its native currency.
LastPriceDate
Date associated with pricing.
LicensePackage
Piranha license code.
LocalCode
Official Local Exchange Code.
MarketToBookValue
Market price compared to the price of the company on its books.
MarketValue
The value of a corporation as determined by the market price of its issued shares and common shares outstanding (Market Capitalization).
MaxAnnualPeriod
Maximum Annual Period Available
MaxDailyPeriod
Maximum Monthly Period Available
MaxMonthlyPeriod
Maximum Quarterly Period Available
MaxQuarterlyPeriod
Maximum Weekly Period Available
MaxWeeklyPeriod
Maximum Daily Period Available
MinAnnualPeriod
Minimum Annual Period Available
MinDailyPeriod
Minimum Daily Period Available
MinMonthlyPeriod
Minimum Monthly Period Available
MinQuarterlyPeriod
Minimum Quarterly Period Available
MinWeeklyPeriod
Minimum Weekly Period Available
NetDividendYield
The dividend yield after taxes are figured.
NumberOfConstituents
The number of companies contained in an index.
NumberOfFalls
Declining Issues
NumberOfMarks
Number of companies
NumberOfRises
Advancing Issues
NumberOfTrades
Index or exchange volume.
NumberOfUnchanged
Number of issues unchanged.
ParentKey
Used to determine if a company is the parent or which issues are a child of a parent company.
PayoutRatio
The percentage of earning paid to shareholders in cash.
PERatio
The current price to earnings ratio
PERatioFYR1
The estimated PE Ratio one fiscal year out from the present
PERatioFYR2
The estimated PE Ratio two years out from the present.
PERatioRebased
The PE Ratio as a percent change over time.
PreEuroCurrency
A code that represents a company's currency prior to its conversion to the Euro.
PriceAsk
The lowest value a prospective seller would be willing to accept for a particular security.
PriceBid
Highest price a prospective buyer is willing to pay for a security at a particular price.
PriceClose
The last price an issue traded at for that day.
PriceHigh
The highest price an issue traded at that day.
PriceIndex
The closing price of a stock index.
PriceIndexRebased
Index price rebased to show percentage change over time.
PriceLow
The lowest price that an issue traded at that day.
PriceOpen
Price an issue opened at for that day.
PriceToBookRatio
Price to Book Value of a company or the market value compared to the value of the company according to its books.
PriceToCashFlowRatio
Price to Cash Flow or the price compared to the net income of the company.
PriceToSalesRatio
Price to Sales that compares today’s price to the companies sales as a ratio.
PrimaryChildKey
Code that determines if an issue is a child of another company.
PrimaryIssueIndicator
Code that determines if an issue is the primary issue.
PrimaryNAICSCode
North American Industry Classification Standard Code.
PrimaryQuoteIndicator
Code that indicates if a quote is the companies primary quote.
PrimarySICCode
Companies primary Standard Industry Classification Code
ReturnIndex
The 12-month return assuming dividends are reinvested.
ReturnIndexNet
The net return assuming dividends are reinvested after tax.
ReturnIndexOfficial
The official return assuming dividends are reinvested.
ReturnOnEquity
A percentage that expresses the amount earned on a companies common stock investment for a given time period.
SEDOL
Identifying code assigned by the LSE.
StartDate
When a security began its pricing history.
StockIndex
A mnemonic of the leading stock market index for the county with which a stock is associated.
StrengthIndex
A percentage of the advancing issues vs. declining issues.
Ticker
Companies ticker symbol used on an exchange.
ToUSD
Conversion to US Dollars value (historical or at time of issue).
ToUSDCurrent
The current value converted to US Dollars.
TradedValue
Total value of the constituent shares traded.
VALOR
Identifying number
The total number of shares traded for a particular period.
Volume
Number of shares of the issue traded that day
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