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Access more data with Moody’s Research Assistant

Gen AI-powered insights. Expanded data at your fingertips.

At Moody’s, we're committed to improving our award-winning data solutions to help you navigate risk and unlock opportunities, with more coverage of key market players and diverse data sources. 

We’ve expanded Moody’s Research Assistant to incorporate 169,000 additional companies, including 121,000 of the world’s largest privately-owned entities, providing you with a comprehensive view of financial health and potential risks to empower your decision making. 

Moody's Research Assistant combines Generative AI (GenAI) with Moody's extensive data estate — and your proprietary information — to deliver a powerful, time-saving solution for generating holistic risk insights and accelerating workflows. 

Leveraging the latest in cutting-edge technology, Research Assistant supports deeper exploration and comprehensive analysis across a vast data repository — enriched with the addition of these new entities.    

 
Wider access to global private and public company data

With an expanded view across more entity data, Research Assistant can help you analyze, benchmark and save time in your analysis of potential borrowers across: 

  • 10K rated entities 
  • 53+ listed corporate entities globally 
  • 128K+ of the largest privately owned entities worldwide 
 
Driving efficiency across your workflows

Now incorporating data on a significantly larger number of companies, our new and improved Research Assistant offers access to high-quality, standardized data on rated companies, as well as public and private companies that are not actively rated by Moody’s. Gain insights into company performance, and financial health to strengthen your credit analysis with data covering: 

  • Firmographics, peers’ information, and financials 
  • Probability of default (PD) Implied ratings 
  • Annual reports, earnings transcripts, and recent news 
 
Streamline your analysis

With seamless data integration, our centralized platform helps you conduct holistic company analyses faster than ever. Instantly gather and analyze data to uncover credit risk insights and view risk across a broader range of rated, public and private companies — all in a fraction of the time it would take manually. 

 
Gain enhanced insights on names not actively rated by Moody's

Dive deeper into companies not actively rated by Moody’s to uncover new opportunities and gain a comprehensive understanding of the market landscape. Leverage Moody’s proprietary data, timely news updates, annual reports, and earnings call transcripts in your insights. Conduct early evaluations of a potential borrower with key financial line items, to compare across rated, public and private entities. 

Prompt: List the PD-Implied rating for all entities in the [sector] sector.

Prompt: Calculate the 2024 median revenue growth for private chemical companies in North America broken down by revenue bucket: 200M - 500M, 500M - 1B, 1B - 5B, 5B+.

 
Increase transparency

Mitigate blind spots in your analysis by incorporating unique datasets to uncover hidden risks and opportunities in company performance, financial health, and current trends. Leverage company news, annual reports and earnings transcripts to empower your decision-making with broader data perspectives. 

Prompt: Provide an overview of [Private Company X], including its financials, ownership information, recent news, and any available annual reports or earnings call transcripts.

Prompt: Detail the rated entity's factors for an upgrade or downgrade and compare [Private Company]'s most recent financials to these factors.  

 
Perform advanced benchmarking

Elevate your analysis with expanded datasets for enhanced peer comparisons, benchmarking comparable financial information across companies rated or not actively rated by Moody’s. You’ll have access to high-quality, consistent financials across key line items, ownership data, firmographic details, and probability of default metrics. 

 

Prompt: What are the key financial ratios for [Private Company X] over the last three years, and how do they compare to the industry median?

Prompt: Compare the credit risk profile of [Private Company X] with its closest rated peer (as determined by implied rating, segment, and region).

 
Discover more companies

Screen entities and identify prospective targets from a larger universe of companies across a variety of sectors and geographies, drilling into their rating and financial information.  

Prompt: List the top 10 fastest-growing private companies in the [Sector] industry in EMEA based on revenue growth over the past three years.

Prompt: Find all private companies in the [Specific Region] with an implied rating above [Threshold] and revenue between [Range].

 

Interested in learning more?

We invite you to experience this next evolution of Moody’s Research Assistant — this integration is more than just additional data; it presents a unique opportunity for you to effortlessly take your research and analysis to the next level.  

Discover how the company data expansion in Moody’s Research Assistant can help your organization stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Connect with us to find out more and request a demo today. 

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