Calcbench

Calcbench offers a huge amount of data to our subscribers, and sometimes that’s all a subscriber wants — reams and reams of historical data, that you can use to populate your own models and analytical tools.  Today we wanted to give curious readers a quick look at how that works. The place to start is our Standardized Metrics page .  This page lists all the specific pieces of financial data that Calcbench tracks: nearly 1,500 items, from universally known disclosures reported by everyone on the primary financial statements, to some truly obscure stuff disclosed by a relative few companies, only in the footnotes.  When you first arrive at the Standardized Metrics page, you’ll see something like Figure 1, below. From there you can expand the menu for each of those five categories of data, to see a brief description of each data item we track. See Figure 2, which shows some of the non-GAAP disclosures we track.  From there you can select or de-select the specific data ...