Table Descriptions

Developed and maintained by Kerry Back,
J. Howard Creekmore Professor of Finance
and Professor of Economics, Rice University

This page lists all variables in all tables in the database and their descriptions, with the exception of the Indicators table. The Indicators table is a list of definitions and is the basis for this page.
  • Corporate actions including mergers, splits, dividends, and ticker changes
  • Daily values of PE ratio, enterprise value to EBITDA, etc.
  • SEC 8-K filings and material corporate events
  • Daily values of moving averages and other statistics
  • Daily open, close, high, low, and volume
  • 10K and 10Q data and financial ratios
  • Trades of officers and other corporate insiders from Form 4
  • Industry, sector, current size category, etc. of each stock