Reuters Estimates - Financial

Get forecasts you can trust. Reuters Estimates (formerly Multex Estimates) provides high-quality real-time forecasts, serving the research and analytic financial services, media and corporate firms.

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With Reuters Estimates, you can:

Get the full picture – because we capture over 25 financial measures and include multiple presentations of profit measures.
Stay ahead of the game – our estimates track up-to-the-minute forecast revisions
Plot the impact of guidance without the bias of analysts who have not yet reacted – we provide a post-event consensus but preserve pre-event values as suppressed.
Receive information the way you want – via FTP, XML APIs or our channel partners

Why choose Reuters Estimates?

Global coverage - over 600 contributing brokerage firms and coverage of over 20,000 active companies (15,000 inactive) in more than 70 countries

Consensus and detailed estimates

Ratings, target prices and long-term growth rates
Company-reported actuals and earnings surprise information
Over 27 financial measures (including three flavors of EPS)
Annual and Interim forecast data plus history
Confirmation and initiation/revision dates for all forecast items
Company-issued guidance/pre-announcements

Outstanding quality

Data collection team with more than 20 years of experience
Rigorous training program for all data analysts and editors
Direct access to source documents in real time
Numerous automated error checks

Superior methodology

Only the post-event estimates are included in the consensus
All estimates per company are provided on the same accounting basis
Reported actuals are provided on the same accounting basis as estimates

Exceptional timeliness

All data is collected in real time on a 24x7 basis
Automated data feeds from brokers
Data collection centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia
Consensus and reported actuals in real time

Leading brand

Used by major institutional sell-side and buy-side firms
Regular attributions by leading publications and media around the world

Flexible delivery

Data files (FTP)
APIs
Reuters proprietary applications
Third-party channels (including FactSet)

We believe that our products and services ought to be delivered in ways that best meet our customers' needs. To that end, Thomson Reuters provides a variety of methods to access our content in a way that fits with your existing workflow. Thomson Reutes data can delivered in XML format via FTP (data files) or API. Our data is also available through Reuters proprietary applications or third-party channels.

Data Files via FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

Data Files (usually in XML format) meet the demands of users who need to store and manipulate the data, integrate the data into proprietary analysis or merge the data with other data sets. The files are usually designed to be database ready and work at various levels to meet different user groups' requirements -- At the most basic level, users can build a system that will store current data and create custom reports with their own 'look and feel'. Users with more complex needs can create a full time series database to mirror the Thomson Reuters database and track data changes over time, analyze historical performance, do proprietary modeling and perform custom queries and calculations.

How It Works:

A data file is generated from Thomson Reuters database on a scheduled basis.
The data file is placed on Thomson Reuters FTP server and a client is given an ID and password to access the FTP and retrieve the file.
On the client-side, a script is written to extract all data, or a sub-set of licensed data, which is then stored in a client's database.
From the database, a client can manipulate the data and/or design reports with their own look and feel.

XML API (Application Programming Interface)

XML API is a hosted solution where the content resides at Reuters but is offered seamlessly through the client's Internet or Intranet, relieving clients from tasks associated with data and server management (downloading the data, building and managing the database, creating loading and retrieval routines). This solution allows you to define the display, customization, and use of the information tightly integrated with your web site or application.

How It Works:

A user searches for company information by entering search parameters into a user interface.
Reuters XML API takes the search parameters and sends the query to the Thomson Reuters database.
Reuters sends requested information back to the client through the API. Data is processed through a client side style sheet or application, and presented to the user.

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