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S&P Capital IQ

S&P Global's research platform for company financials, private-company data, screening and comparable analysis.

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S&P Capital IQ (now branded Capital IQ Pro) is a research and data platform used heavily in investment banking, private equity and equity research for building comparable-company analyses, screening on fundamentals, and pulling standardized financial statements including for private companies. It draws on S&P Global's ratings, ownership and transaction databases, and offers a well-used Excel plug-in for building models directly from sourced data. It is delivered as a hosted web platform with a desktop Excel add-in, sold under enterprise licenses rather than self-serve pricing, and is a frequent alternative or complement to Bloomberg and FactSet, particularly for private-company and M&A data depth.

At a glance

Vendor S&P Global Market Intelligence
Pricing model Quote only
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Investment banking, private equity and equity research teams needing standardized comps and private-company data.

Pricing

Sold per seat under a negotiated enterprise contract; no public price list.

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Features

  • Standardized global company financials, public and private
  • Comparable company and precedent transaction screening
  • Ownership, M&A and capital markets transaction databases
  • Excel plug-in (CIQ Plug-in) for model building
  • Industry and credit ratings research from S&P Global
  • Company and people search across a broad private-company universe

Integrations

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Alternatives

Bloomberg Terminal The dominant institutional terminal for real-time market data, news, analytics, execution and messaging. FactSet Integrated financial data, analytics and portfolio platform for buy-side, sell-side and wealth management teams. LSEG Workspace LSEG's cross-asset data and analytics desktop, the successor to Refinitiv Eikon, built around Reuters News.

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