The Company Connections: Detailed Estimates (CCDE) describes the relationships between companies implied from sell-side analyst coverage by leveraging S&P Capital IQ Detailed Estimates data. These relationships are useful in identifying connections between companies, and can be used to improve understanding of peer groups and inform signals based on those connections.

Company-to-Company point-in-time connections are derived from the number of shared sell-side analysts between a pair of companies, a measure otherwise difficult to obtain without a full picture of all brokers’ coverage. Utilize this dataset to determine the strength of the relationships between companies through a unique network and build leading quantitative signals. 

This dataset includes:

• Pairwise company relationships through shared sell-side analysts, enhancing peer group understanding
• The Analyst Momentum signal constructed from the network to identify companies whose network is performing well in the last month
• Eight dimensions of the Analyst Momentum signal based on analyst coverage count and further breakdown based on the analyst recommendations