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starmine: StarMine Rankings, 1995

Description

StarMine rankings of some stocks in 1995, with corresponding returns and other data.

Usage

data(starmine)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing 53328 observations on the following 23 variables.
date
Date on which the observation was recorded. The dates have a monthly frequency. Dates range from 1995-01-31 to 1995-11-30.
id
Unique identifier for each stock.
symbol
Company symbol.
name
Full company name.
country
Country of the exchange on which the company is listed. This factor has levels AUS, CHE, DEU, DNK, ESP, FIN, FRA, GBR, HKG, ITA, JPN, NLD, NOR, NZL, SWE and USA
sector
Sector specification. This factor has levels Durbl, Enrgy, HiTec, Hlth, Manuf, Money, NoDur, Other, Shops, Telcm and Utils
sec
An alternative sector specification. This factor has levels CND, CNS, COM, ENE, FIN, HTH, IND, MAT, TEC and UTL.
ind
Industry specification. This factor has levels AERDF, AIRLN, AUTOP, AUTOS, BANKS, BEVGS, BIOTC, BUILD, CHEMS, CNENG, CNFIN, CNMAT, COMEQ, COMPT, COMSS, CONGL, CPMKT, DICNS, DISTR, DVFIN, DVTEL, ELEQI, ELEQT, ELUTL, ENEQS, FDPRD, FDRET, GSUTL, HEPSV, HEQSP, HETEC, HOTEL, HSDUR, HSPRD, INSUR, INTSS, IPPET, ITCAT, ITCON, LEISR, LFSCI, LOGIS, MACHN, MEDIA, METAL, MGFIN, MLRET, MLUTL, OFFIC, OILGS, PACKG, PAPER, PHARM, PRPRD, REALE, REDEV, REITS, RRAIL, SEMIP, SEMIS, SHIPS, SMOKE, SOFTW, SPRET, TEXAP, TRADE, TRINF, WIREL and WTUTL
size
cap.usd normalized to N(0,1).
smi
StarMine Indicator (smi) score
liq
Liquidity of the company.
ret.0.1.m
One-month forward return of the company.
ret.0.6.m
Six-month forward return of the company.
ret.1.0.m
One-month prior return of the company.
ret.6.0.m
Six-month prior return of the company.
ret.12.0.m
Twelve-month prior return of the company.
mn.dollar.volume.20.d
Mean dollar volume of the past 20 days.
md.dollar.volume.120.d
Median dollar volume of the past 120 days.
cap.usd
Market capitalisation of the company in USD.
cap
Market capitalisation of the company in local currency.
sales
Annual gross sales of the company.
net.income
Annual net income of the company.
common.equity
Annual common equity of the company.

Source

StarMine Corporation. For more information, see http://www.starmine.com.

Details

starmine contains selected attributes such as sector, market capitalisation, country, and various measures of return for a universe of approximately 6,000 stocks. The data is on a monthly frequency from January 31, 1995 to November 30, 1995.

Examples

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data(starmine)
head(starmine)

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