A provider of financial data and tools, FactSet Research System does research for both institutional investors and retail clients.
Users can use FactSet online, which compiles data from several financial information sources into a single source.
The FactSet system offers stock screening, custom data, market analytics, financial information, and other functions. The goal of FactSet is to improve the performance of investing professionals by offering analytical insight derived from unprocessed financial data. The business aims to achieve this by giving investors and other professionals the resources necessary to transform this data into knowledge that can be applied to financial analysis and reporting.
FactSet offers its services at a lesser cost than some of its rivals because it obtains its data from a variety of sources, which encourages price competition among suppliers.
