Data Services
Unleashing the Power of Consensus Data
Take control of your data delivery. Opt for lightning-fast data ingestion through a RESTful API, seamless file-based data feeds, or harness the cloud via Snowflake.
Unparalleled Data Control
In addition to our powerful web app and Excel add-in, you have the freedom to access data your way via:
API: Run ad hoc queries to test new ideas and integrate Visible Alpha data with other applications and platforms.
Data Feed: Maintain a copy of our data and access our complete library of historicals in whatever data structure suits you best.
Snowflake: Access our complete data set in a ‘ready to query’ self-maintaining database.
Choose the Best Delivery Mechanism for You
| CHARACTERISTIC | API | DATA FEED | SNOWFLAKE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment Time | Within 24 hours | 30+ days | Within 48 hours |
| Data Delivery | RESTful HTTPS calls with input parameters | Text files available via AWS S3 or SFTP | Database share |
| Data Freshness | Updated as data is requested | Updated throughout the day in real-time | Updated throughout the day in real-time |
| Recovery Options | N/A as data is hosted by Visible Alpha | Historical files are always available | Time Travel |
Choose the Best Delivery Mechanism for You
Deployment Time
API: Within 24 hours
Data Feed: 30+ days
Snowflake: Within 48 hours
Data Delivery
API: RESTful HTTPS calls with input parameters
Data Feed: Text files available via AWS S3 or SFTP
Snowflake: Database share
Data Freshness
API: Updated as data is requested
Data Feed: Updated throughout the day in real-time
Snowflake: Updated throughout the day in real-time
Recovery Options
API: N/A as data is hosted by Visible Alpha
Data Feed: Historical files are always available
Snowflake: Time Travel
Data That Delivers
Expedite Screening Processes
With Visible Alpha data services, you can conduct advanced multi-faceted queries to help quickly sort through thousands of companies and metrics
Example queries include finding companies that satisfy the following conditions:
- Revenue growth greater than X% over the past Y years
- Profit margins of at least X%
- Low debt-to-equity ratios
- Low price-to-earnings ratios compared to industry peers
- Trading at a discount relative to their intrinsic value based on discounted cash flow analysis
- Beat earnings estimates for the past X years
Find Critical Line Items
Visible Alpha Data Services help users sort through hundreds of line items and data points to identify those capable of producing alpha.
Example queries include returning the following:
- A quarterly time series of VA Actuals data on X different line items going back to the first possible data point for each security.
- The latest consensus forecast values for X specific line items over the next Y fiscal years.
- The consensus forecast values each of the last X quarters for Y specific line items, along with VA Actual figures for each line item Z days after reported earnings.
Integrate with Third-Party Data Sets
Bring Visible Alpha data into your existing proprietary applications to develop custom views or analytics for your end users.
Explore Visible Alpha’s Data in Action
Earnings Surprise
Analyze detailed revenue, cost and profitability drivers that contribute to earnings announcement surprises that move the stock price post- release.
Example:
Do social media company returns respond more strongly to positive news around user/subscriber growth?
Visible Alpha Advantage
Revision timestamps let you know when changes occurred historically; data items available in Visible Alpha that are not available elsewhere.
Peer Analysis
Identify companies where consensus expectations are materially different from peers.
Example:
How are analysts forecasting growth in subscribers to Disney+ versus other streaming services?
Visible Alpha Advantage
Standardized items across 170+ industries for multi-company analysis.
Valuation Analysis
Compute key valuation metrics using historical actuals & forward-looking consensus estimates across a large universe of stocks.
Example:
Does the factor ‘3-year cumulative expected free cash flow yield’ help predict returns across a universe of companies?
Visible Alpha Advantage
Longer forecast horizon, greater source count and well-stitched actuals-to-forecasts for backtesting.
Forecast Comparison
Combine our data with alternative data sets to discover how they correlate with analyst predictions.
Example:
Does an increase in foot traffic at Apple stores result in upward sales revisions by analysts?
Visible Alpha Advantage
Granular line items for comparison and consensus statistics to show dispersion of broker opinions.
Portal Development
Bring Visible Alpha data into your new or existing proprietary applications to develop custom views or analytics for your end users.
Example:
Allow your clients and internal colleagues to access Visible Alpha content in your own research portal.
Visible Alpha Advantage
Our API allows you to replicate views from the Visible Alpha web application so you can easily reconstruct financial statements, comp tables, and other reports.
Third-Party Integration
Utilize Visible Alpha content in your favorite third-party apps and platforms to help add unique insights to your user’s workflow.
Example:
Enable your Data Science team to leverage Visible Alpha data in statistical tools such as R or MATLAB.
Visible Alpha Advantage
Our data delivery options give you flexibility in how you access our content; bring all the data into a database via our feed or make ad hoc requests via our API.
Benchmark Alternative Data
Visible Alpha’s consensus estimates data can serve as a benchmark for alternative data by allowing analysts to compare and assess the impact of alternative data sets.
Example:
Benchmark website traffic against an established metric like e-commerce sales to identify correlations and trends.
Visible Alpha Advantage
Our data goes beyond headline numbers, so you can benchmark alternative data across the most granular line items.
Selecting the Best Data Service Option
Deciding which data service is best for your needs can be challenging, which is why we created a simple questionnaire to help steer you in the right direction.
What is the size and scope of data you want to look at?
- I want to view all historical data and query content in bulk.
- Data Feed or Cloud Delivery via Snowflake
- I only look at a handful of items at a time.
- API
Where do you intend to send your data?
- I plan to load Visible Alpha data into a database such as SQL, Postgres, Mongo, MariaDB, or Oracle and comingle with other data sources.
- Data Feed or Cloud Delivery via Snowflake
- I plan to use Visible Alpha data in a downstream application (i.e. dashboard) and comingle it with other data sources.
- API
Do you plan on making on demand queries or looking to consistently receive data?
- I need to maintain a copy of Visible Alpha data and receive regular updates.
- Data Feed or Cloud Delivery via Snowflake
- I plan on running ad hoc queries to test new ideas and explore data.
- API
