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Worldscope is a computer-readable database containing fundamental financial data, analysis and stock performance data on the world's leading public corporations, as well as a number of key private companies.

Widely respected for content quality, depth of detail, extensive company coverage and content presentation, Worldscope provides annual and interim/quarterly data, detailed historical financial statement content, per share data, calculated ratios, pricing and textual information.

The comprehensive coverage available on Worldscope represents more than 95% of the world's market value. Worldscope includes up to 20 years of historical data on more than 50,000 public and private companies, with up to 1,500 data elements on each company record.

Worldscope has extensive coverage - more than 50,000 companies incorporated in over 70 countries.

With Thomson Worldscope Fundamentals, you can:

• Construct successful strategies and investment advice with industry and sector analysis.
• Make informed investment recommendations with the ability to
  compare the capital structures and financing strategies of corporations.
• Examine and analyze opportunities with a wealth of company data.
  

Why choose Thomson Worldscope Fundamentals?

• Comprehensive Annual History: Access records from the late 1980s for firms in developed markets, and from the early 1990s for firms in emerging markets. Some annual records date back to 1980.
• Interim History: Access records from 1998 for U.S. companies and from 2001 for non-U.S. companies.
• Standardized Presentation of Adjustments: Increases the comparability of data among companies; differences in accounting terminology, presentation, and language are normalized.
• Ratios: Hundreds of pre-calculated per share and growth/leverage ratios are offered.
• Four Major Templates: Industrial, Insurance, Banks, and Other Financial templates are available to facilitate comparisons between companies and industries within and across national boundaries.
• Global Updates: Speakers of more than 20 different languages with extensive accounting expertise update the Worldscope database from strategic locations ensuring a timely update cycle.
• Click-Through Functionality: Enhances data transparency, understanding and usability.
• Anytime Access: Clients have access to 24-hour client support.

Extensive Coverage:

• More than 50,000 companies incorporated in over 70 countries. (Over 33,000 of these companies are actively covered.)
• Up to 1,600 data items (including ratios) are potentially available for each full annual record.
  Approximately 800 items are available for small-cap companies¿ annual records.
• Some 250 data items are available for each interim U.S. company record; up to 180 data items for non-U.S. interims.
• Companies meeting any one of several criteria, including market capitalization equal to or greater than US $100 million, receive full data set coverage. Others receive limited data set coverage.

Valuable Content:

• Standardized financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement).
• Calculated ratios (annual and five-year averages for growth rates, profitability, leverage,liquidity, asset utilization, etc.).
• Weekly and monthly market price data; market capitalization.
• Extensive per share data (EPS, BVPS, CFPS, etc.).
  

Security and market identifiers:

• Product and geographic segment data.
• Textual profile data (including officers, address, web address, major shareholders,business descriptions).
• Restated data available from 2004 in addition to original accounts.
• Click-through functionality provides unprecedented data transparency by displaying calculations of Worldscope values and linking to where the individual components appear in the original source document.

COMPANY HISTORIES:

• Worldscope offers comprehensive annual history from the late 1980s for firms in developed markets, and from the early 1990s for firms in emerging markets. Some annual records date back to 1980. Worldscope also provides interim history from 1998 for U.S. companies and from 2001 for non-U.S. companies.