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Virginia Tech’s Finance Department provides students and faculty with industry-leading research tools for financial analysis, academic research, and professional training.

Key resources include Bloomberg Terminals, SDC Platinum, ISS Governance, and WRDS, offering access to datasets like COMPUSTAT, CRSP, and IBES. These tools equip students with real-world skills, preparing them for careers in investment banking, asset management, and corporate finance.

KEY RESOURCES

SUBSCRIPTIONS

  • SDC Platinum from Thomson Reuters is the industry standard for information on new equity and debt issues, M&A, syndicated loans, private equity, project finance, poison pills, and VentureXpert.
  • ISS Governance provides Corporate Takeover Defenses and Director data; Voting Analytics; and Incentive Lab database that covers incentives in executive compensation.

  • Mergent Online is a comprehensive financial database providing company profiles, financial statements, SEC filings, industry reports, and market research for public and private companies worldwide.
  • S&P Industry Surveys has in-depth reports on key industries, offering analysis of market trends, competitive landscapes, financial performance, and economic outlooks to support research and investment decisions.
  • ValueLine Research is a trusted investment research platform featuring stock reports, financial forecasts, and analyst insights, helping users evaluate company performance and make informed investment decisions.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a powerful research platform offering instant access to key databases in finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy. The Departments of Accounting and Finance acknowledge the financial support of the University Libraries in subscribing to Wharton Research Data Services.

DATABASES

  • Audit Analytics – Tracks over 150,000 audits and 10,000+ accounting firms, providing detailed data on public company disclosures, governance, compliance, and litigation.
  • COMPUSTAT – A comprehensive financial database offering over 300 annual and 100 quarterly financial data points for 24,000+ public companies, supporting financial research and benchmarking.
  • COMPUSTAT Execucomp – Provides executive compensation data, including salary, stock options, pensions, and long-term incentive awards.
  • CRSP Stock – A robust database of U.S. stock market data, supporting research on stock performance, benchmarking, and time-series analysis.
  • CRSP Indices – Historical index data designed for investment benchmarking and academic research, offering market analysis with decile subsets.
  • CRSP Mutual Funds – A survivor-bias-free mutual fund database, essential for research and benchmarking in fund performance and investment analysis.
  • IBES – Offers analyst forecasts on earnings, cash flows, and financial metrics, along with buy-sell-hold recommendations for investment research.
  • ISS - RiskMetric – Provides corporate governance data, tracking governance structures, shareholder rights, and risk factors.
  • ISSM – Contains historical tick-by-tick trade and quote data for NYSE, AMEX (1983-1992), and NASDAQ (1987-1992) securities.
  • KLD - MSCI – ESG research and benchmarks assessing corporate social responsibility, governance, and sustainability practices.
  • MFLinks – Links CRSP Mutual Fund data with Thomson Reuters mutual fund ownership data, enabling analysis of fund holdings.
  • Markit – Provides global pricing and reference data for market research, risk control, and financial forecasting.
  • PHLX – Data from the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, one of the oldest U.S. stock exchanges, covering equity and options trading.
  • RepRisk – Specializes in ESG risk analytics, offering business intelligence on environmental, social, and governance factors.
  • TAQ – Intraday transactions data covering trades and quotes for NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ-listed securities.
  • Thomson Reuters Mutual Funds – Offers mutual fund holdings data for all SEC-reporting funds and 3,000+ global funds.
  • Thomson Reuters 13F Holdings – Institutional common stock holdings and transactions data from SEC Form 13F filings.
  • Thomson Reuters Insiders Data – Tracks insider trading activities from SEC Forms 3, 4, 5, and 144, with performance analysis on past insider trades.

  • Bank Regulatory – Provides accounting data for bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loan institutions, sourced from regulatory filings.
  • Blockholders – Standardized dataset on blockholders for 1,913 companies (1996-2001), cleaned for biases and errors, supporting research on large stock ownership.
  • Fama-French – Portfolio and factor data based on size and value metrics, widely used for asset pricing and risk analysis.
  • Federal Reserve Bank Reports – Includes datasets from the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, covering economic and financial conditions.
  • Foreign Exchange Rates – Tracks exchange rates for 30+ currencies based on the Federal Reserve Board’s H.10 report, with data in currency units per U.S. dollar.
  • Penn World Tables – Provides internationally comparable income and economic data, enabling cross-country analysis of national income accounts.