Key facts for Guidance
Coverage metric
Geography:
North America, Asia / Pacific, EMEA, Latin America and the Caribbean
History:
United States from 1994; Rest of the World from 2003
Coverage count:
Legal entities - 9500+ Public companies; Documents/Reports/Records - 110 Records/datapoints
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
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 Guidance
MANAGEMENT OUTLOOK DATA
Company Guidance across key forecast measure
• Company guidance data covering 9,500+ active companies globally.
• Includes 110 guidance measures across quantitative and textual data.
• Covers outlooks for KPIs, segments etc.
GUIDANCE VERSUS CONSENSUS
Compare Management and Market Expectations
• Compare company guidance against analyst expectations.
• Identify guidance that exceeds, meets or misses consensus.
• Support earnings analysis and forecast evaluation workflows.
INTEGRATED WITH I/B/E/S ESTIMATES
Built for Guidance and Estimate Analysis
• Links guidance and I/B/E/S Estimates across shared measures.
• History extends to 1994 for back-testing and trend analysis.
• Structured fields and text support quantitative research.
Description of the dataset
- LSEG captures company guidance as a critical forward-looking component of the earnings cycle, helping customers compare management expectations with analyst forecasts. Our active guidance coverage includes 9,500 companies, while historical guidance coverage extends to 15,000 companies.
- We provide both quantitative guidance for numerical company outlooks and qualitative guidance for non-numerical or textual management commentary. LSEG supports 20 measures for comparable numerical guidance and 110 measures for as-reported guidance across quantitative and qualitative records.
- Our Guidance data includes guidance source, currency, effective date, event ID, event type, guidance measure, collected measure, estimate period and activation date. We also capture guidance values, segment dates, normalisation, scale and guidance mean estimate at date to support expectation-gap analysis.
- LSEG maintains comparable guidance history dating back to 1994 and as-reported guidance history dating back to 2002 or 2003 where available. We structure the dataset across GuidanceCollectedData, GuidanceComparableData, GuidanceCompanySegment and GuidanceCollectedText with 174 data dictionary rows.
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