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Company Data | I/B/E/S Estimates

Broker Estimates

Broker estimate data with forecast values, recommendations, sources, footnotes and earnings season calendar details.

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Key facts for Broker Estimates

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; Contributors/Providers - 950 Research providers (incl. brokerages, investment banks, contributors, analysts); Documents/Reports/Records - 350+ Records/datapoints, 50000000 Transactions
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
Russian, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, German, English
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 Broker Estimates

COMPANY LEVEL CONSENSUS VIEW

Support Company forecast analysis

• Uses consistent methodologies for reliable company forecast comparison.

• Uses US history from 1976 and global history from 1987.

• Supports valuation, screening and quantitative research.

DETAILED BROKER ESTIMATES

Access Broker Estimates Intelligence

• Track analyst level estimates, recommendations, company level consensus, Starmine analyst ranking etc from one source.

• Covers 22,000+ companies across 90+ markets.

• Source data from 950+ firms and 18,000+ analysts.

FLEXIBLE ESTIMATES DELIVERY

Integrate estimates into workflows

• Deliver through Realtime feeds, API's, Desktop, Excel, Snowflake, cloud and bulk services.

• Access 350+ measures and KPIs across 15 industry sectors, with deep history.

• Use SmartEstimates, Analyst Rankings and earnings calendar data sets.

Description of the dataset

  • LSEG delivers I/B/E/S Broker Estimates as a market standard for analyst detail, consensus inputs, recommendations, company guidance context and estimate-driven decision support. Our coverage spans 22,000+ active companies across 90+ countries and is sourced from over 18,000 analysts.
  • We curate estimate contributions from 950+ firms, ranging from large global houses to regional and local brokers. LSEG provides more than 350+ metrics and key performance indicators across 15 industries, with U.S. history back to 1976 and international history back to 1987.
  • Our Broker Estimates data captures estimate values, estimate sources, announcement dates, preferred measures, fiscal periods, currencies, unit scales and normalization attributes. We also provide recommendation codes, recommendation text, earnings season calendar references, company footnotes, estimate footnotes and objects of forecast.
  • LSEG structures this content through tables such as Estimate, ProductEstimate, Recommendation, EarningsSeasonCalendar, PeriodOfInterest and RecommendationScale. We support research, valuation, screening and forecast comparison workflows with 500 data dictionary rows of estimate, recommendation and governance metadata.

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