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Zacks began in 1978 collecting the individual EPS estimates for over 4,400 US and Canadian companies made by 3,000 analysts employed by 180 US brokerage firms. We aggregate this information to form the consensus of the brokerage analyst estimates of future earnings per share, and in fact, we originated the concept of the EPS surprise in 1981 by comparing reported EPS to our consensus of analyst EPS forecasts for the quarter. In the early 1990s, we developed consensus estimates of other key investment metrics such as brokerage analyst stock ratings, forecasts of future sales, and target prices. More recently, we are expanding again the set of items for which we calculate consensus estimates to include many of the line items and ratios that can be determined from income statements such as ROE, Margins, Net Income, etc.

Zacks extensive data sets give you access to over 25 years of data history on over 16,000 active and inactive US and Canadian equities. Zacks data is accessible through raw data feeds for both history files and updates, as hosted web pages that can be framed into finance oriented websites, as APIs in XML or JSON format, and through partners providing on-demand data-as-a-service (DaaS) platforms.

Zacks produces data in the areas of company financial statements, consensus earnings estimates, sales estimates, target prices, analyst ratings, institutional holdings, insider transactions, splits, dividends, and industry/sector classifications. To see more details on what is provided in each of these areas, click on the data category links on the left side of this page. GLB.