World Industry Service: Industry Forecasts, Analysis and Comparisons

The World Industry Service is a valuable market assessment tool for comparing industrial sectors across countries and over time. We utilize data from a variety of public and proprietary sources to create a single, standardized data set for cross-country comparisons. Subscribers receive historical data going back to 1980 and our detailed forecasts extending 20 years for 95 industries in 75 countries. We update our database quarterly, including in-depth industry reports, country summaries, and cross-country industry comparisons. Clients benefit from an array of Data Access options, including a direct data feed into their company's database, a web-based application for creating reports, and customized email alerts following breaking news and developments.

Subscribers to the World Industry Service receive:

• Historical data and forecast database 
• Quarterly updates and in-depth industry reports 
• Macroeconomic country summaries 
• Comparative industry analysis for countries/regions 
• Special reports 
• Access to our senior analysts 
• Multiple data access options

For an additional fee, subscribers may also purchase the following services:

• World Industry Service Sector Risk Ratings: an instrument for loan officers, credit analysts, and portfolio managers to evaluate the risk composition of loans and bond portfolios 
• Word Industry Service Stock Sector Benchmarks: our new tool designed specifically for financial analysts to measure cross-country industry performance using the GICS® classification scheme

Benefits:

The World Industry Service enables you to:

• Compare, rank, and size sector markets at the country, regional, and global levels 
• Identify market risk and opportunity 
• Benchmarks sales and profits 
• Quantify the impact of financial and economic events by sector 
• Track an industry's or country's key demand drivers 
• Identify industry concentrations and correlation in portfolios 
• Research and validate sector investment strategies

Features:

• Historical data going back to 1980 and forecasts extending 20 years with uniform coverage across 95 industries and 75 countries for the following concepts:
  • Total sales
  • Value-added
  • Operating surplus&
  • Purchase of inputs and supplies
  • Apparent consumption
  • Fixed capital investment spending
  • Depreciation of capital equipment
  • Gross output price deflator
  • Final demand composition
  • Exports and imports (goods sector)
• Uniform data coverage for individual countries and geographic composites up to a world total
• Uniform data coverage for single industries and broad industry composites up to an economic total
• Quarterly, in-depth industry reports, including:
  • Scorecard and rankings by size, growth, profitability
  • Recent events and forecast summary
  • Demand: production and end markets&
  • Spending:
    • Input prices and costs
    • Capital expenditures
  • Financial performance
  • Industry profile
    • Key players
    • Industry structure
• Macroeconomic summaries for 75 countries
• Comparative industry analysis for countries and regions
• Special reports

Plus

• Multiple World Industry Service Data Access Options including a direct data feed into your company's platform/database.
• Our web-browser tool, DataInsight-Web, which allows you to view, sort and download data by industry, country, concept, and over time, individually or in combined fashion 
• Unparalleled expertise and a unique methodology that fill the voids in individual databases to provide a single, robust set of global industry benchmarks and data
• Leverage of our event-driven analysis of countries and industries through MyInsight, our client site
• Option to receive email alerts when new content is posted
• Access to senior-level analysts

Our World Industry Service Sector Risk Ratings indicate and measure change in sector-level credit quality and operating risks. The ratings are derived from our World Industry Service's sector benchmarks and forecasts for 95 industries in 75 countries, allowing loan officers, credit analysts, and portfolio managers to stress test their portfolios or measure the risks that arise from the sector composition of corporate loans and bond portfolios. The sector risk ratings provide a "top down" income and cash flow perspective that clients can match against their "bottom up" view of the same concepts. Ratings are globally comparable over time, across countries and sectors, and are computed using 40 factors to measure sector-level credit changes arising from:

• Production and sales growth
• Pricing power and profitability 
• Supply conditions and capacity overhang 
• Industry structure and bargaining positions 
• Sector business cycle and interest rate sensitivity 
• Regulation and technology 
• Macroeconomic environment 
• Sovereign risk factors

Features: 

• A unique methodology developed in conjunction with banking-industry leaders, used and tested by numerous U.S. and European banks for over 20 years 
• Ratings derived from the World Industry Service sector benchmarks and financial indicators 
• Composite risk scores profiling the credit and operating risks in each industry as computed by 40 separate risk factors 
• Historical data going back to 1980, forecasts extending 20 years 
• Quarterly, updated industry outlooks, including: 
  • Summary 
  • Comparative industry view 
  • Risk factor discussion 
  • Industry debt profile 
• Access to senior-level analysts 

Applications:

• Quantify the risk profile of key sectors in a loan or bond portfolio 
• Monitor and anticipate change in sector credit quality, flag troublesome sectors, determine geographical risk distribution 
• Match sector risk to country and sovereign risk analysis 
• Forecast changes in bankruptcies, defaults, and loan loss requirements 
• Compare your company's risk profile to that of your peer groups 
• Identify correlations in portfolios for industries that improve or deteriorate together 
• Assess the relationship between risk and return

The World Industry Service Stock Sector Benchmarks provides financial analysts an ideal tool for asset allocation, security valuation, sector rotation and risk management. They retain the same advantage of general World Industry Service benchmarks in comparing industry performance across 75 countries over time. Measurements of industry performance are tailored to financial analysts using the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®)—the most popular stock market classification managed by MSCI and Standard & Poors. The GICS scheme classifies industries into stock-market sector "peer groups," giving financial analysts access to fundamental indicators of sector performance on a country, regional, and global basis. We employ our proprietary, state-of-the-art methods for converting the World Industry Service data from their original ISIC terms into Stock Sector Benchmarks that use the GICS.

Features

• Offers the advantages of World Industry Service benchmarks with consistent indicators across countries and sectors so you can make informed, timely investment decisions 
• Provides complete coverage of the top-10 sectors in the GICS, with more than 50 additional sub-sectors included, including sector totals 
• Global coverage of 75 countries, with regional and global totals 
• A unique methodology provides a single, robust source of fundamental sector metrics 
• Presents country-by-country sector metrics as time series and organizes them by industry to complement "bottom-up" analysis of company income statements with "top-down" analytical rigor 
• Aligns sector benchmarks and familiar GICS sector price indexes 
• Includes financial statement items such as top-line revenues, operating earnings, and capital expenditures 
• Provides historical data back to 1980 and forecasts extending more than 10 years 
• Delivery through an easy-to-use navigator platform 
• Access to senior-level analysts

Applications 

• Identify growth prospects for company cash flow and earnings through comparisons with sector benchmarks 
• Quantify the macroeconomic impact on expected sector profit performance 
• Determine leading and lagging sectors in the current and future business cycles 
• Research and validate sector investment strategies against historical performance 
• Determine the impact of sector earnings growth on common stock-market price indexes 
• Calculate expected trends in profit margins and sales growth 
• Monitor and anticipate changes to the risk profile of sectors