I/B/E/S Estimates Detail & Consensus

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I/B/E/S Details & Consensus is the highest-quality, most granular and transparent estimates provider. We offer industry-leading coverage, with decades more history and experience (1976 US), hundreds more brokers (over 900), and thousands more companies (more than 22,000) – especially in emerging markets – for the most complete view of the market. Additionally, we offer analytics not available anywhere else – like StarMine SmartEstimates, StarMine Analyst Ratings and Predicted Surprises.

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- Tap into content from 950+ contributors covering 90+ developed and emerging markets, and benefit from the insights of over 18,000 individual analysts.

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- Leverage Comparable Actuals, adjusted to the consensus mean, to provide clear information on a beat/miss; and Restated Actuals to view true year-on-year comparisons for companies with restated results.

- Use our Comparable Guidance to compare a company’s own view of its future performance to the market view. Reported Guidance, collected as given by the company, includes both quantitative and qualitative (textual) guidance.

- Unlock Macro-Level Views - I/B/E/S Global Aggregates, and view over 30 years of history to facilitate top-down analysis and better assess potential growth, risk and future value – across industry, sector, index, country and region.

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