ZACKS HISTORY FILES
Contents
Availability
Zacks History Files include earnings estimates, stock recommendations, and earnings surprises from 1978 through 2003. These data are available to current faculty and doctoral students in Kellogg. The files are stored in Kellogg's Unix server, skew3 in the /kellogg/data/zacks directory. Please note Zacks requires a copy of published research which relies, or has relied upon, Zacks data. Please send the published copy to research computing and we will forward it for you to Zacks.
Description
The Zacks History Files are a collection that includes the following items:
- Company descriptive information
- Price and volume related monthly price
- Dividends
- Historical growth rates
- Consensus earnings per share (EPS) estimates, with a consistent definition through time
- years and quarters
- Estimate revisions
- Stock selection models
- Broker recommendations
- Surprises
- EPS detail
Vendor information
Zacks Investment Research
155 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: (312) 630-9880
Fax: (312)630-0954
Accessing Zacks History Files
- Zacks History Files are in ASCII format; hard copy of documentation may be borrowed from Research Computing.
- Zacks History Files record layouts
