Knowledge Base

Ratios for Individual Companies

You can look up financial ratios for individual companies in many of our company financial databases such as D&B Hoovers , LSEG Workspace – see LSEG Workspace access help, or Capital IQ – see Capital IQ access help. Locate the company's profile and find the tab that includes the ratios.

If those databases don't include the ratio you're looking for, you can calculate it yourself using the underlying financial information. The Corporate Finance Institute has some guidance.

Ratios for Many Companies

If you want to pull the ratios for many companies at one time, your best options are:

• Financial Ratios Suite – see WRDS access help
• Datastream – see Datastream access help

Screening for Companies with Certain Ratios

If you want to create a list of companies that have a specific ratio (e.g. they have above a certain debt-to-equity ratio) you can do that in many sources. Some options include: 

• Capital IQ – see Capital IQ access help
• FactSet – see FactSet access help
• Bloomberg – see Bloomberg access help

Print Sources (Historical Ratios)

• Almanac of business and industrial financial ratios
• Industry norms and key business ratios