Key facts for IBES Actuals
Coverage metric
Geography:
North America, Asia / Pacific, EMEA, Latin America and the Caribbean
History:
United States from 1976; Rest of the World from 1987
Coverage count:
Legal entities - 22000+ Public companies
Asset Class
Units, Other Equities (AssetClass), Company Options, Participation Shares, Depository Receipts, Rights, Equity Derivatives, Ordinary Shares, Depositary Shares, Preference Shares, Company Warrants, Equities
Delivery metadata
Data Frequency
Continuous
Language
Dutch, French, English, Swedish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, German, Chinese, Italian
Delivery methods:
Excel, Deployed/Onsite Servers, API, Web Service, SFTP, Cloud, Desktop, FTP, Bulk, Snowflake, Website, RSS Feed
Data formats:
PDF, GZIP, XML, JSON, CSV, SQL, Text, Python, HTML, Bitmap, MPEG, User Interface, PCAP
Minimum service frequency
Continuous
Overview of IBES Actuals
INTEGRATED ACTUALS DATA COVERAGE
Connect actual outcomes to estimates data
- Access actual values, changes, KPI actuals and surprise windows in structured tables.
- Use currencies, unit scales and normalization flags for integration.
- Analyse global public companies from deep historical coverage.
RELIABLE EARNINGS SURPRISE SIGNALS
Evaluate earnings beats with precision
- Measure beats and misses using comparable actuals against consensus mean estimates.
- Support point-in-time earnings analysis with announcement dates.
- Maintain historical trend integrity with restated actuals.
COMPARABLE ACTUALS
Compare reported results with confidence
- Standardise reported actuals to the consensus basis for accurate company comparisons.
- Align results with broker estimates across companies and periods.
- Use comparable actuals, restated actuals and go-forward actuals
Description of the dataset
- I/B/E/S Actuals from LSEG align reported company results with the operating or comparable basis used by the majority of contributing analysts. We help customers evaluate earnings beats and misses by adjusting actuals to the consensus basis where reported figures contain unusual, one-time or non-comparable items.
- LSEG captures comparable actuals, restatement actuals and go-forward actuals to support changes in accounting basis and restated company filings. We provide fields such as actual announcement date, effective date, estimate measure, estimate period, activation date and period advance indicators to support point-in-time earnings analysis.
- Our Actuals content includes actual values, actual changes, normalization flags, currencies, unit scales and KPI-specific actual values. We structure these elements across tables including Actual, ActualChange, ProductActual and PeriodIndex so customers can connect outcomes to estimate measures and fiscal periods.
- LSEG supports earnings surprise workflows through actual surprise windows and product-level surprise window structures. We provide 158 data dictionary rows covering core actuals, change metrics, KPI actuals and related currency and scale attributes for consistent integration.
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