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Security Description (DES)

The Security Description page (function DES) presents the most important corporate and financial information about the selected security and is a good start when analyzing a company.

There are five tabs (outlined below) with different categories of data available. In each tab we have multiple sections, by clicking on the title of which we can dig deeper and get more detailed data about the selected topic.

The 5 tabs of DES function

The Profile tab is the one we land on by default. It offers the most important information for the security such as:

  • its description,
  • basic market data,
  • corporate information and its key people.

In the Issue Info tab we can find for example:

  • various identifiers of a security,
  • a list of index memberships and their weights (for example we can observe that Microsoft represents 6.2% of INDU, which is the Dow Jones Industrial Average),
  • institutional, insider and top holdings (for example we can see that Vanguard is the top holder of company equity with 8.7%).

Ratios provides us with a plethora of financial ratios regarding security's capital structure, operations, profitability, market data and more.

Past, current and estimated future revenues and earnings per share can be found in the Revenue & EPS tab. Revenue data regarding individual regions and segments is also presented here.

The ESG tab shows environmental, social and governance data for the selected security.

Company report

A PDF file with a short report on the most important security data can be accessed by selecting the Report button.

Company Profile (CP)

Another overview page for a company can be found using the function CP (Company Profile). Here, the emphasis is more on key insights of the company and related news. 

eTUTOR-CEK, ISSN: 2591-1090, Izdajatelj: Ekonomska fakulteta Ljubljana, Centralna ekonomska knjižnica, 2017-, Urednika: Urban Golob in Martina Petan

Foto: Arhiv EF. Tehnična podpora