Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

Leading business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform of top subscription and public-domain databases

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Getting Started

• Getting started with WRDS
• Research at WRDS
• Video tutorials

Get data

• Subscription data sources
• CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices)
• Compustat-Capital IQ (North American and global financial statement and market data)
• IBES (Institutional Brokers' Estimate System)
• TAQ (NYSE Trade and Quote)
• Trucost and S&P Global ESG Scores
• Public domain data (Macro-economics, healthcare)
• All data sources

Other resources

• Analytics tools
• Programming (Access WRDS through SAS, Python, R, MATLAB, and Stata)
• Sample programs
• Research applications (customizable source code from widely-cited papers on topics including portfolio construction, earnings surprise calculation, institutional ownership ratios, deriving NBBO, signing trades, and option pricing
• WRDS Research paper series