Financials & Equities in Eikon and Compustat: the basics
This support session is intended for students Economics and Business Administration who consider performing an emperical study with company specific, stock market, investment or fixed income data for their BA or MA thesis.
Related LibGuide: Library Guide Business Administration & Economics by Norma Fötsch
- Date:
- Thursday, March 11, 2021
- Time:
- 12:20pm - 1:20pm
- Campus:
- Nijmegen School of Management
- Faculty:
- Nijmegen School of Management
- Categories:
- Other
Thomson Reuters Eikon/ Datastream is the flagship among the economic databases of this university. A wide range of variables is available on e.g. equity, stock & money markets, accounting data, options, futures, bonds and much more. Eikon is only available fot 4 concurrent users.
The databases Compustat Global & North America provide company financials for listed firms worldwide. A WRDS account is necessary in order to use these databases and can be requested here: https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/register/. Students choose a 'Masters' account. See for more information the Library Guide Business & Economics (https://libguides.ru.nl/BE).
In this support session you will be introduced to some of the most important basic elements in the process of retrieving data from Eikon and Compustat. We will focus on financials and index data, but the process is the same for many other data types as well.
- understand which data types can be found where in Eikon and Compustat;
- retrieve financial company data in Excel;
- work with more more advanced requests to find the historical constituents of an index (e.g. the AEX);
- and retrieve historical stock prices and index returns (Eikon).
The workshop will take place through Zoom. Duration: up to 1 hour. Language spoken: English.
