IHS Markit Launches Stock Score, Bringing New Insights to Investors

New Score on Yahoo! Finance combines proprietary datasets to produce innovative metric on stocks

Monday, August 14, 2017 8:14 am EDT

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"Advanced web technology from Markit Digital distributes the Scores to Yahoo!, which has the reach to expose this innovative new metric to a broad audience."

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced the launch of a Score report that provides investors and others with a new metric based on hard-to-measure factors such as credit worthiness, short selling and ETF activity. The Score report is available in the news feed for select publicly traded companies on Yahoo! Finance .

The report gives access to a range of proprietary financial datasets produced by IHS Markit, including CDS pricing, short interest data, ETF flows and sector level Purchasing Managers Index data.  In addition to metrics from each dataset, the Score also provides a consolidated indicator for a stock through an overall rating from one to 100.

“The new Score reports highlight the breadth of capital markets data we offer and is the first time we have consolidated this many datasets into one tool for investors,” said Adam Kansler, executive vice president of Financial Markets at IHS Markit. “Advanced web technology from Markit Digital distributes the Scores to Yahoo!, which has the reach to expose this innovative new metric to a broad audience.”

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IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. IHS Markit has more than 50,000 key business and government customers, including 85 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the world’s leading financial institutions.  Headquartered in London, IHS Markit is committed to sustainable, profitable growth.

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