WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is an online data platform that specializes in company financials (financial statements, audit and regulatory filings, banks, segments / industry data, compensation, intellectual property), financial markets, prices, and returns (stock prices, analyst estimates, bonds and fixed income, mutual fund / hedge fund, ETF returns, derivatives / options, REITs, currency exchange rates), ownership, mergers and acquisitions, sustainability/ESG, economics, marketing, news, and healthcare.

WRDS' strengths include:

• Historical data with a variety of output formats
• A shared web interface and retrieval process for all datasets
• A linking suite to combine data from different vendors
• The ability to query the data from statistical software (SAS, R, STATA, Python, MATLAB, and PostgreSQL)
• WRDS Cloud, a high-performance research computing center that you can access via an SSH connection

WRDS is primarily intended for use by BIs staff and PhDs conducting academic research or teaching courses with assignments that require the analysis of WRDS data.