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Overview
Get forecasts you can trust. Reuters Estimates (formerly Multex Estimates) provides high-quality real-time forecasts, serving the research and analytic financial services, media and corporate firms.
With Reuters Estimates, you can:
Get the full picture – because we capture over 25 financial measures and include multiple presentations of profit measures.
Stay ahead of the game – our estimates track up-to-the-minute forecast revisions
Plot the impact of guidance without the bias of analysts who have not yet reacted – we provide a post-event consensus but preserve pre-event values as suppressed.
Receive information the way you want – via FTP, XML APIs or our channel partners
Why choose Reuters Estimates?
Global coverage - over 600 contributing brokerage firms and coverage of over 20,000 active companies (15,000 inactive) in more than 70 countries
Consensus and detailed estimates
Ratings, target prices and long-term growth rates
Company-reported actuals and earnings surprise information
Over 27 financial measures (including three flavors of EPS)
Annual and Interim forecast data plus history
Confirmation and initiation/revision dates for all forecast items
Company-issued guidance/pre-announcements
Outstanding quality
Data collection team with more than 20 years of experience
Rigorous training program for all data analysts and editors
Direct access to source documents in real time
Numerous automated error checks
Superior methodology
Only the post-event estimates are included in the consensus
All estimates per company are provided on the same accounting basis
Reported actuals are provided on the same accounting basis as estimates
Exceptional timeliness
All data is collected in real time on a 24x7 basis
Automated data feeds from brokers
Data collection centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia
Consensus and reported actuals in real time
Leading brand
Used by major institutional sell-side and buy-side firms
Regular attributions by leading publications and media around the world
