Company Data

The London Stock Exchange has access to comprehensive, up-to-the-minute data covering over 3,000 companies listed on our markets, dating back to January 2000.

We ensure you get only the information most relevant to your business, at a time most convenient for you. So whether you’re an investment banker looking for data such as shares in issue to help evaluate investments, or a financial analyst wanting information on company accounts and director deals to help build a financial model, we can assist you.

Company data is:

• Accurate – Reliable data is gathered directly from the source. The data provided comes from a range of preliminary and interim regulatory announcements.
• Timely – Our state-of-the-art data collection systems enable us to deliver information in real time and make it available to you within hours of publication to the market. Data files can be provided to you on an hourly basis if need be.
• In-depth – Company Data covers all UK listed companies on both the Main Market and AIM. That’s over 3,000 securities.
• Relevant – Select the data of most value to your business and only pay for what you need.
• Convenient – We can provide Company Data in a simple format, allowing you to integrate the information into your own systems.

The Company Data service consists of five core sets of information. Identify which of the following datasets are most suited to your business and we’ll take care of the rest. You will be sent simple data files which are available weekly, daily, or hourly.

Board Membership

We provide information on the board membership of all UK, Irish and FTSE® All Share foreign incorporated companies with a UK listing as well as all AIM companies. Each director is assigned a unique, unchanging identity number, allowing you to track the activities of a particular director between roles and across companies. Board appointments and resignations are tracked through the regulatory news distribution network managed by the London Stock Exchange.

Board Membership data provides an excellent resource for compiling databases, particularly in regard to marketing databases. Data fields provided for each director include:

• names
• appointment titles
• executive/non-executive board member status
• board committee memberships
• salary and bonus
• shareholding.

Company Accounts

We provide accurate and frequently updated company accounts data such as profit and loss and balance sheets on all UK listed companies. We also have financial accounts data going back to January 2000.

To ensure you gain quick access to the companies you want, we’ve grouped them by sector:

• industrials
• investment trusts
• banks
• real estate
• insurance.

From the Company Accounts dataset, the information available includes:

• profit and loss
• cash flow
• balance sheet
• interim announcements.

We can also offer a further breakdown of the data, such as additional detail on debt and exceptional items. We carefully list and categorise a company’s exceptional items to create a  standardised view of a company’s accounts suitable for trend analysis over multiple years.

Director Deals

The extent to which directors invest in the company is one indicator of the level of confidence they have in the organisation’s financial performance. You can access full details on all director deals since April 2002 for all UK, Irish and FTSE All Share foreign incorporated companies with a UK listing, as well as all AIM companies. Organisations are required to announce insider transactions through the London Stock Exchange’s RNS [link to RNS] division or another Primary Information Provider.

From the Director Deals dataset, the information available includes:

• date of the transaction
• identity of the director making the transaction
• type of transaction
• number of shares traded and trade price
• total value of the transaction.

Shares in Issue

Our Shares in Issue data is a valuable source of information for determining company benchmarking and performance measures, such as per-share ratios and market capitalisation. An up-to-date source for Shares in Issue data is also becoming increasingly relevant under the regulatory changes brought about by the Transparency Directive and MiFID. Our collection methods for this information are tailored to provide the most frequently updated Shares in Issue information in the market. We collect data intra-day from all regulatory news announcement types in which companies may announce their latest position.

Shareholders

We track and distribute shareholder information on a daily basis by following all regulatory announcements regarding major shareholdings of 3 per cent or more. We provide the shareholder name and their holdings, both in number of shares held and the percentage of the overall share capital they own.

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Company Fundamentals Data (file pdf - 740 KB)