
Attribute Definition
performance of the issuer over upcoming reporting
periods.
Financial ratios Derived statistics from various performance data are
widely used by analysts and investors. These values
provide an empirical measure of a company’s health,
and serve the purpose of supporting meaningful
comparisons of performance.
Industry classifications
In similar fashion to security classification schemes, issuer organizations are catego-
rized based on industry. There are a number of classification schemes in use as well as
proprietary data vendor schemes, with little or no concordance between them. Industry
classifications are widely used as a means of ...