WITH ESTIMATES, YOU CAN:

• Predict surprise across the whole range of our forecast fields by comparing StarMine SmartEstimates® to the mean
• Access detailed and consensus company earnings forecasts and stock recommendations from more than 800 contributors around the globe
• Conduct thorough historical analysis, including backtesting investment strategies across decades of past market conditions
• Compare “apples to apples” by only using estimates created on the same accounting basis
• Combine our Estimates with other company-related content sets including Fundamentals, StreetEvents and Ownership to create the ultimate corporate analysis package

WHY CHOOSE ESTIMATES?

• A trusted source of estimates content for over 30 years, a level of experience unmatched in the industry
• The most extensive global coverage and the largest number of contributors, meeting our clients’ current and future coverage needs regardless of their location or investment focus
• Unmatched history going back to 1970, allowing our clients to analyze and understand companies’ expected vs actual performance over many business cycles
• StarMine SmartEstimates® are proven to be more accurate over time than traditional mean estimates.  The patented model is simple but effective – overweight those analysts with strong track records for that company and overweight more recent contributions
• Key Performance Indicators, such as Same Store Sales for retailers and restaurants, complement those available from Fundamentals, allowing our clients to include industry-specific performance expectations into their forward-looking analyses
• I/B/E/S Global Aggregates, with over 20 years of history, facilitates top-down analysis based on industry, sector, index, country and region

Thomson Reuters Estimates are made up of four industry leading brands including:

• I/B/E/S - Access detailed and consensus estimates featuring up to 28 forecast measures for more than 41,000 companies in 80 countries worldwide.
• StarMine TM - Access the most powerful equity insight available – with patented quantitative models, like SmartEstimates®, designed to cut through the noise of the marketplace.
• First Call - A leading provider of real-time broker-sourced research and earnings estimates.
• Reuters Estimates- Access real-time forecast information, serving the research and analytic needs of thousands of companies in the financial services, media and corporate markets.

In addition to the Thomson ONE suite of products, I/B/E/S and First Call Estimates are available in several powerful FTP feeds:

I/B/E/S

• I/B/E/S Quantitative File System (QFS), an intra-day file system of current estimates data designed for quantitative and analytical users of earnings estimates data, provides users a concise representation of 26 data measures and allows users to easily maintain and manipulate a customized database of earnings estimates.
• I/B/E/S History allows you to backtest investment strategies across 30+ years of estimates and reported data, in new and innovative ways. Our deep estimates history, back to 1976, is essential to tracking historical performance and predicting future trends, gaining insight and identifying similarities among market conditions, and tracking revision momentum.
• I/B/E/S Key Performance Indicators (KPI) allows you to quickly identify and retrieve analyst forecast information on key drivers within the retail, restaurant and pharmaceutical industries. Make informed portfolio allocation changes and target investment opportunities based upon market moving industry-specific data.
• I/B/E/S Global Aggregates (IGA) provides bottom-up earnings forecasts plus related data for 56 countries and major international indices back to 1985.  IGA provides the whole picture in order to limit risk exposure, identify which markets are under/overvalued and gauge aggregated sentiment of an index. This powerful service provides a unique source of data for use in many global investment applications, including Global Asset Allocation, Cross-border Valuation, Sector and Industry Aggregation, and Derivatives.
• Thomson Reuters Guidance (I/B/E/S) brings company guidance together with I/B/E/S Estimates to allow true comparisons amongst company versus analyst forecasts. Fielded guidance data, across 14 key data measures, is available with history back as far as 1994, with key forward-looking information directly from management about future company expectations – all on the same accounting basis as the estimates data. Observe and gauge the reaction of analysts to all corporate statements and fully evaluate a company’s earnings potential.

First Call

• First Call Datalink is a real-time data delivery system for First Call Estimates and Research. Data is delivered through continual streams of updated information and regardless of delivery option (Circuit or Internet), for simple ingestion of the streaming data directly into your applications. React to estimates revisions as they happen, across key forecast data measures.

Reuters Estimates

In addition to the Reuters 3000 Xtra and Knowledge suite of products, Reuters Estimates are available as a powerful FTP feed:

• Reuters Estimates Delta is a real-time stream of changes to the earnings estimates provided by brokers. Each "delta" provides a distinctive set of forecast, actual and derived data such as direction, standard deviation and mathematical sign. It is a true alerting system which requires no manual action from the end-user to retrieve the files.