S&P Capital IQ vs. ListGrabber

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.

Incentivized

Since we use ListGrabber basically only for mail outs and extractions out of Yellow Pages, our organisation is probably not the best one to provide such information.

• 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.

Incentivized

• Easy to use - Pretty user friendly.
• Compatible with Australian Yellow Pages.
• Extracts information into Excel which helps us to create mail outs.

• 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.

Incentivized

• Drivers are updated constantly by Yellow Pages. Since we use ListGrabber only twice or thrice a year it is not really worthwhile to purchase new versions each year. The product should come with at least a couple of years of free updates.
• Product crashes from time to time when extracting a large amount of information.

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Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Increased efficiency - ListGrabber helps us get pages of contacts in a few hours, which would probably take days if done manually.
• Since the product extracts to Excel, it is easy to convert into mail out formats.