Consensus forecasts and the revisions behind them, stored exactly as they stood on each day.
What's included
Mean and median consensus for EPS, revenue, EBITDA, dividends per share and free cash flow across the current and next two fiscal years and the next four quarters. Each consensus row includes the number of contributing estimates, standard deviation, high and low, and 7-day and 30-day counts of upward and downward revisions. Once a company reports, the actual and the surprise versus the final consensus are added. An optional premium file includes individual estimates with anonymized contributor IDs.
How buyers use it
- Trade estimate-revision and earnings-surprise signals
- Measure analyst dispersion as a risk and uncertainty factor
- Prepare earnings season previews and post-mortems
- Compare company guidance with street expectations
Coverage and methodology
Estimates come from about 210 sell-side brokers and independent research firms that contribute through a secure feed. Each submission is normalized to the company's fiscal calendar, checked for stale values (older than 120 days are excluded from consensus) and screened for outliers. Consensus is recalculated hourly during US and European trading hours and snapshotted at the close each day, so history is point in time. Coverage is about 18,000 companies, densest in the US, Europe and developed Asia-Pacific.