WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

• Capital IQ - Capital IQ Transcripts is now available in WRDS. Capital IQ Transcripts package provides historical conference call transcripts around the world covering approximately 8,000 public companies. It covers not only earnings conference calls but other types of conference calls such as shareholder/analysts calls, M&A calls, or company conference presentations. More information about Transcripts data.
• Refinitiv ESG - WRDS has released Version 2 of Refinitiv ESG. Version 1 will be removed at the end of August. Please click on any ESG query page for details. (A WRDS account is needed for access.)

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is an online data platform that specializes in company financials (financial statements, audit and regulatory filings, banks, segments / industry data, compensation, intellectual property), financial markets, prices, and returns (stock prices, analyst estimates, bonds and fixed income, mutual fund / hedge fund, ETF returns, derivatives / options, REITs, currency exchange rates), ownership, mergers and acquisitions, sustainability/ESG, economics, marketing, news, and healthcare.

WRDS' strengths include:

• Historical data with a variety of output formats
• A shared web interface and retrieval process for all datasets
• A linking suite to combine data from different vendors
• The ability to query the data from statistical software (SAS, R, STATA, Python, MATLAB, and PostgreSQL)
• WRDS Cloud, a high-performance research computing center that you can access via an SSH connection

WRDS is primarily intended for use by NYU professors and PhDs conducting academic research or teaching courses with assignments that require the analysis of WRDS data.

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