Chart: Compustat Coverage#
Number of firms in Compustat by year
Chart#
Sources: Compustat
Bar chart showing the number of unique firms in Compustat by fiscal year. Demonstrates data coverage expansion over time from 1950 to present.
Chart Specs#
Chart Name |
Compustat Coverage |
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Chart ID |
compustat_coverage |
Topic Tags |
Compustat, Data Coverage |
Data Series Start Date |
1930-01-01 |
Data Frequency |
Annual |
Observation Period |
Fiscal year |
Lag in Data Release |
Variable |
Data Release Timing |
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Seasonal Adjustment |
None |
Units |
Number of Firms |
Data Series |
g, v, k, e, y |
HTML Chart |
Dataframe Manifest#
Dataframe Name |
Compustat Fundamentals |
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Dataframe ID |
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Data Sources |
Compustat |
Data Providers |
WRDS |
Links to Providers |
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Topic Tags |
Accounting Data, Book Equity, Compustat |
Type of Data Access |
S,u,b,s,c,r,i,p,t,i,o,n, ,(,W,R,D,S,) |
How is data pulled? |
WRDS Python API |
Data available up to (min) |
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Data available up to (max) |
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Dataframe Path |
C:\Users\Zara\Documents\GitHub\FINM-Winter\full-stack-quant\p01_kelly_pruitt_2013_data\Compustat.parquet |
Download Data as Parquet |
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Download Data as Excel |
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Linked Charts |
Pipeline Manifest#
Pipeline Name |
Market Expectations in the Cross-Section of Present Values |
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Pipeline ID |
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Lead Pipeline Developer |
Zara and Dylan |
Contributors |
Zara, Dylan |
Git Repo URL |
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Pipeline Web Page |
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Date of Last Code Update |
2026-03-05 23:55:41 |
OS Compatibility |
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Linked Dataframes |
P01:crsp_monthly_stock |