S&P Capital IQ vs. D&B Credit Insights

Cap IQ is well suited for analyzing security pricing and valuation, tracking stock performance over time, looking up comparable transactions, and analyzing valuations on an industry basis. The service is also well suited for charting and data analysis purposes.

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For businesses looking to boost their business credit and get approved for small business loans that are not personally guaranteed, this is a game changer. You will always know where your business stands and what creditors will see when they are deciding to loan to you or not. If you are a sole proprietor I don't think this will help, I believe you need an LLC, Corporation, Parntership, etc - a separate entity from your SSN so that entity can begin to build credit based on the business and not your personal assets and credit

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• Plugins that change and analyze analysis improve it.
• Capital IQ is user-driven, unlike other market participants, which helps streamline the dashboard and acquire accurate data.
• Any report or analysis delivers the most in fewest words. In this data-driven world.

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• Gives us free alerts whenever there's a change on our credit profile.
• Helps us understand what factors are affecting score and how to increase it.
• Allows us ability to get better rates!
• Excellent price point especially compared to other services!

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• S&P Capital IQ's add-in slows down my Excel when I incorporate formulas into it.
• S&P Capital IQ's algorithms don't necessarily look in the footnotes of company filings, which can make for a less robust analysis of financials and multiples than desired.
• The user interface is not very user-friendly and thus makes maximizing the software's features difficult. It could be more intuitive to use and not so busy (e.g. not so many small icons on one web page). The S&P Capital IQ support team, however, is always available and very helpful.

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• Using the correct personal credit score. My score is not right and won't allow me to change it.
• Have more financial options available for businesses that actually need funding. The requirements state we need to make a certain large amount in order to be approved for funds.
• New and slow growing businesses should have business lives of credit automatically.

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[It's the] best ever.

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Best product I've tried

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We had Capital IQ in addition to Bloomberg. It was much easier for a new person to use Capital IQ than Bloomberg. The ease of use was a huge selling point for us. Yahoo finance on the other hand is free, but you cannot gather all the data you may need in one location like you can in Capital IQ.

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it was our first foray and seemed vast and easy to use

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• We were a boutique investment bank, so it helped multiple people doing their job at the same time instead of waiting for a turn on the Bloomberg terminal.
• Brought more interactive reports in PDF format to the table.
• Saved some money, if I have to go basic.

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• D&B Credit Insights has provided us with credit recommendation to prepare ourselves for potential bad customers
• It has provided us with PAYDEX information to determine how long it would take us to collect the outstanding receivables
• It has provided information for existing customers if they will or have gone bankrupt, closure or failure to prepare our potential bad debt for outstanding receivables

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