S&P Capital IQ vs CB Insights

• S&P Capital IQ's blackline tool allows for the effortless comparison of changes in company filings over time.
• The screening tool when searching for comparable companies and/or transactions is very comprehensive and customizable.
• It allows users to customize their dashboards and tearsheets in any number of ways.

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• Transparency - lets me separate the hype from the reality.
• Real-time intelligence-packed reporting. The graphs and metrics they provide along with their perspectives allow anyone to apply their own understanding and reproduce a nearly identical perspective.
• Their daily e-newsletter is chock full of intelligence presented in such a fun and entertaining way, it makes you want to pay for it too!

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• Sources. In Bloomberg, when you click on a figure anywhere it leads you to the source. That is a great feature, as in finance everything has to be backed with the original source.
• Cannot always find the needed information, the menu is too complex.

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• Might only suggest more corporate events

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• Cap IQ has helped tremendously with employee efficiency when it comes to investment analysis and gaining market perspective. The service is relied upon for use in financial modeling as well.

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• Positive in both volume and detail of the most relevant information upon which to make key strategic decisions.
• It's not an inexpensive service, but worth the price given the accuracy, timeliness and criticality of the information they are able to provide.
• Strategy - strategy - strategy! There's no way anyone could gather that much intelligence in just one stop with any other service.

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