Comments on: stock classification (GICS)

Question: stock classification (GICS)

jruckman — Fri, 06 May 2005 08:53:02 -0800

Does anyone know of a website where I can lookup a stock's GICS classification? There is plenty of information out there about GICS itself, but I have't been able to find anywhere I could simply enter a stock's symbol, and find it's classification.

By: milkrate

milkrate — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:12:33 -0800

I believe the actual classification of companies into GICS is done by MSCI/S&P and any kind of company-to-GICS tool is only available through one of the services they own, like GICS Direct, Compustat or other MSCI/S&P databases. Having heard some stories about MSCI's lawyers for other products - licensing it, I'm sure, is not cheap or particularly flexible.

If you have a brokerage account, you might have access to "S&P Stock Reports" in the research section (Scottrade has this) - they cover most companies and list the GICS sector and sub-industry. Lexis-Nexis has GICS information, too, I think.

If you just want companies in some kind of classification system, there's SIC codes at the SEC.

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Fri, 06 May 2005 12:55:02 -0800

If you have access to S&P's website, they usually list it on there with their ratings. Also, if you have a Bloomberg terminal you can go to a company (TICKER Equity FPRP ) then click options and search for GICS.

By: JPD

JPD — Sat, 07 May 2005 00:57:56 -0800

I think Yahoo uses GICS to classify stocks by Sector and Industry - though they don't say that. But I just checked a few names S&P puts in non-intuitive sectors and they matched up.

Its kinda the industry standard so whenever you see someone classifying stocks into sectors 9/10 that's what they are using