As an analyst, you’re only as good as your next great idea. Everything we do is built to put you ahead of the curve and keep you there: data that is clean, fast and reliable; analytics that deliver an edge; and tools that streamline your workflow as you consume information, analyze it and pitch your ideas. You also need global access, security and best-in-class customer service in order to succeed. We help you stand apart from the pack with an array of tools and services specifically for analysts’ workflow.
News and Economics
Whether you’re looking at macro trends or researching a specific idea, Bloomberg delivers unparalleled news and economics information. Gain insight into where the economy may be heading using current and historic information and analytical tools from our comprehensive economics platform.
And take advantage of our award-winning news coverage of companies, markets, economies, politics and governments to get the information you need when you need it most.
Research Solutions
Streamline the idea-generation process by sifting through content, downloading what you need in a hurry, and seamlessly publishing your research and ideas to share and track progress. Our research solutions provide world-class, deep sector-specific analysis and fundamental data, research creation tools, and a large and growing distribution platform and analytics to help you understand consumption trends. Access comprehensive research content, including company filings, event calendars, and earnings transcripts; industry analysis and company primers from our Bloomberg Intelligence team; and contributed research from more than 2,000 providers.
Market activity
We make it simpler, faster and clearer for you to monitor the markets, perform surveillance, go deep on company and market news, perform agile research, communicate and collaborate. Graphically map out and sell your investment ideas, using our advanced charting and monitoring tools. With seamless functionality, smarter tools and data that flows cleanly across applications — all contained in an easy-to-manage desktop interface — we deliver unsurpassed analysis of shifting markets to fuel your success.
Alerts
You need to adapt in real time to whatever is affecting the markets, so we consolidate real-time pricing, economic data and breaking news and proactively alert you to keep you informed while at your desk or on the go.
Industry research
Get up to speed on any company in minutes with comprehensive company descriptions, fundamentals, smart industry benchmarking and high-quality data from every corner of the global markets. Bloomberg’s independent research platform, Bloomberg Intelligence, has 500+ third-party data providers that are aggregated for companies and industries to help complement your analysis. Use these comprehensive data sets to facilitate creative investment ideas, simplify financing recommendations and produce compelling presentations. You can also receive the most important information about a company through an automated feed of insightful, data-driven facts as well as reports that reflect current and recent observations across a broad range of data sets.
Fundamentals
Use Bloomberg fundamental analysis tools to identify trends, gain data transparency and compare capital structure and financial statements so you can analyze the value of a potential investment, partnership or acquisition target. Bloomberg currently covers recent fundamentals for over 45,000 companies, which represent more than 99% of the market capitalization of about 62,500 companies listed in global equity markets.
Earnings and estimates
Go beneath the surface of financial forecasts with more brainwork, less legwork. Use a range of tools to prepare for earnings announcements and other events so you can rapidly assess a company’s prospects. With a few keystrokes, view estimates across multiple measures for any time period or access a particular metric across all your entitled providers in a single view. Focus your time on monitoring and analyzing consensus, not spending hours gathering it.
Relative value analysis
If you can’t generate insight into where a security is headed relative to its peers, your ideas won’t get out of the block. We make it easy to perform relative valuation analysis, benchmarking against competitors and comparable companies in the sector of your choice. With multiple data sources to work with, you can customize the groups you use, benchmark against various factors and gauge performance trends with more precision.
Equity screening
When it comes to your positions and the bets you want to make, we help you validate your trade ideas. We offer deeper insight and discovery with advanced screening and backtesting tools. Ranging from historical performance data to intraday performance monitoring, play out your scenarios in a streamlined workflow to analyze growth, trends and estimate revisions over time, as well as compare data against benchmarks.
Portfolio management
Analysts can gain a significant edge with Bloomberg’s portfolio and risk analytics. We provide unmatched transparency into positions and active bets and help you gain decisive insight into your next great idea, enabling you to create and execute investment strategies that will set you apart.
Research evaluation
Bloomberg’s research analytics allows buy-side customers to track results by monitoring their firm’s readership of and engagement with internal and external research, including brokers, independent providers, market research firms, and other providers of premium content, so you can track and evaluate how your users utilize research content.
Internal and external communication
When it comes to communicating with your network, microseconds matter. Whether you’re collaborating on research, building relationships, talking with clients or transferring timely data into notes as you develop and share ideas — a single platform with multiple points of communication is key. And no one else offers a collaborative authoring tool for research that can compare.
Collaboration
Bloomberg’s note-taking and collaboration platform enables you to capture ideas and information, tag them to specific securities or themes and share with colleagues — on both desktop and mobile. You can easily create a custom database of your ideas that is searchable and available permanently.
Mobile
Use the Bloomberg Professional app on iOS or Android to access the real-time news and market data that drive your day; the app keeps you seamlessly connected with your network from virtually anywhere — from your laptop to smartphone, tablet, even wearables. Whether meeting clients or commuting to and from work, the mobile app allows you to create and share notes remotely with your network and read research documents while offline.