Extensive Web Site Functionality

• Easy-to-use Web Interface — Provides easy and efficient access to all of the content and functionality with a consistent look and feel throughout the product.
• User Preferences — Provides users with the ability to configure Market Insight to begin sessions with the companies, industries, countries and reports that they use most.
• Text searching — Allows the user to search through the majority of the S&P documents (i.e., Stock Reports, News stories, Long Business Descriptions, etc.). An advanced search option allows the user to search through a specific Company, Industry or Country document type or a set of document types, as well as all EDGAR documents (i.e., 8-Ks, 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 11-Ks, etc.).
• Company Screening — The improved screening functionality allows the user to screen for companies. From screen results, the user can select a company to research and the screening results will remain open (in the background) for future reference. Additionally, users can create a report on the fly for the companies that passed their specific screening criteria.
• Company & Industry Lookup Lists — Provides the user with company and industry searching capabilities.
• Enhanced Help and Administrative tools — Make it easy for the user to e-mail Customer Support, access how-to information, reference materials and data item definitions.
• Logout button — Lets users clear the research processes and reset Market Insight for the next user (very useful in a library setting or shared environments).

The Market Insight base package consists of the following functional categories: Company Data, Industry Data, Country Data and Commentary.

Company Data

• Company Profile — A snapshot report identifying a company's address, web site, phone number, S&P Sub-Industry, primary SIC, GICS, business description and executive officers, as well as pricing, valuation and return data. (Available for U.S. companies.)
• Company Home Page Addresses — Provide links to more than 10,000 company homepages directly from your Market Insight Company Profile.
• Long Business Descriptions — Include detailed company descriptions for more than 10,000 companies.
• Financial Highlights — Generated daily from the Compustat database, this report provides the latest company data: valuation, profitability, 12 month performance, financial risk, 5-year growth rates and more—plus, the report includes Industry Averages.
• Industry-Specific Content — Annual and quarterly reports covering the most frequently reported deep-level operational data that drives company performance. (Industries covered include: Airlines, Health Care Facilities, Homebuilding, Managed Health Care, Mining, Oil & Gas, Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing, and Retail.)
• Peer Group — Identifies the ten closest industry peers (based on sales) for a chosen company, and allows comparative analysis for several key data items such as market value, P/E from operations, dividend yield and 1-year sales growth.  Report includes sorting capabilities for each column header.
• Corporate Action Reports — Provides company-based historical corporate actions such as name changes, acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, ticker changes, etc.
• Global Company Research — Annual fundamental data, business descriptions, company information (GIC, CUSIP, GVKEY) and ratios for more than 20,000 global companies, including approximately 600 Canadian companies, presented in html format.
• Standard & Poor's Stock Reports — Fundamental, quantitative and technical analysis from Standard & Poor's for more than 6,000 companies, with Industry Overviews, News Headlines and Wall Street Consensus Estimates (in pdf and html formats). S&P Corporate Profiles for more than 2,000 companies.
• Excel Analytics — 13 reports including annual and quarterly balance sheets, income statements, ratio reports and cash flow statements, an annual comparative report, monthly adjusted price reports, profitability, forecasted values and monthly valuation data reports for U.S. companies. The reports allow users to track trends with period to period changes and key item charting.
• EDGAR — The comprehensive collection of forms (including the 10-K, 10-Q and more) that companies are required to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The reports are available in four formats—work, excel, outline and html—and are completely searchable. Current and historical documents are available, back to 1994, where applicable. The reports may also be available for inactivated companies (acquired, liquidated, merged, and gone private).
• Recent News — Full press release and financial release coverage for the Market Insight population provided by PR Newswire and Business Wire. News stories are archived for 90 days.
• Executive Compensation Reports — Six reports that cover current, historic and total compensation, executive options and compensation of industry peers and comprehensive and objective executive compensation data on the top officers of more than 2,700 companies.

Industry Data

• Industry Profile — Provides a snapshot of how the industry is performing with returns and valuations by market capitalization compared to the widely followed S&P 500.  This report also provides a brief description of the S&P Sub-Industry, a listing of the SIC's that make up the Sub-Industry, the number of constituent companies and total industry sales.
• Industry Constituents List — Provides the user with the list of companies that make up a specific industry with links to drill down to company-level research.
• Industry Revenue Share Report — This report ranks the Sub-Industry constituents by revenue share for each of 154 S&P GICS Sub-Industries.
• Industry-Specific Content — Reports highlighting the top companies in an industry for key industry-specific data items. (Sub-Industries covered include: Airlines, Apparel Retail, Department Stores, Diversified Metals & Mining, Drug Retail, Food Retail, General Merchandise Stores, Gold, Health Care Facilities, Homebuilding, Hypermarkets & Superstores, Integrated Oil & Gas, Managed Health Care, Oil & Gas Exploration & Production, Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing, Precious Metals & Minerals, Restaurants, and Specialty Stores.)
• Industry Financial Highlights — Generated weekly from the Compustat database, this report provides the latest Sub-Industry data by market capitalization: valuation, profitability, % weight of the broader index, 12-month performance, financial risk, 3-year growth rates and more.
• Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys — An in-depth look at industry trends, how the industry operates, key industry ratios, statistics and more for 112 industries incorporated into 57 reports (available in both pdf and html formats).
• Recent News — Full press release and financial release coverage for the Market Insight population provided by PR Newswire and Business Wire. News stories are archived for 90 days.

Country Data

• Regional Profile — A snapshot report providing some key regional specifics such as location, boundaries and population.
• Country Overviews — This report provides forecasts for growth, investment, housing, fiscal balances, interest rates and more for more than 65 countries.

S&P Commentary

• Investment Policy Committee Notes — Weekly reports based on the meetings of the Standard & Poor's Investment Policy Committee.
• Asia Investment Policy Committee Notes — Asia IPC Notes offers a bi-weekly report with investment outlooks and sector performance for Asia with Japan and Japan separately.
• European Investment Policy Committee Notes — Euro IPC Notes offers a monthly report with investment outlooks and sector performances for Europe.
• Standard & Poor's Trends & Projections — A monthly newsletter, co-written by Standard & Poor's Chief Investment Strategist Sam Stovall and Managing Director and Chief Economist David Wyss, that provides an in-depth review and analysis of the U.S. economy.

• Corporation Records and Register of Corporations — Corporation Records, a subset of the full S&P product, provides detail on over 10,000 U.S. and over 1,000 non-U.S. public companies such as subsidiaries, debt issues, stock and officers/directors. Register of Corporations, a subset of the full S&P product, delivers information on over 90,000 private companies such as sales, year started, industry, auditors, market area, and officers/directors.
• Risk Reports — A complete document that examines a country's current economic climate, assessing risk in key categories for more than 100 countries.
• Global Reports^TM — Offers an extensive on-line collection of international company source d ocuments including Annual Reports, Annual Report Summaries, Financials, Interims and IPO Prospectuses for 13,000 co mpanies around the world. With EDGAR filings, the collection covers over 28,000 companies. These high-quality, PDF reports are quick to download and print due to compact file sizes (average 2.5 MB) and are available in English and native language. Up to 5 years of history per company is available.

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