Highlights

• Gain unprecedented visibility into global companies and the specialty sectors in which they compete.
• Leverage a comprehensive classification system, consisting of 1,700+ sector groups and six levels of depth to more accurately define each company’s primary line of business.
• Utilize a more consistent and detailed framework for investment research, comparable company analysis, portfolio construction, thematic screening and risk management.Create accurate and granular peer groups and identify multi-industry competitors based on a company’s detail product offering FactSet Revere Business Industry Classification System (RBICS) Focus relies on sector specialists and consistent methodology to assign each company’s primary line of business to the lowest-level (RBICS) sector from which it derives 50% or more of its revenues. At the lower levels, the patented bottom-up approach of classifying companies according to the products and services offers unpreceded level of precision and granularity. At the top levels, the market-defined approach, widely accepted by the investor community, is introduced to group companies based on performance characteristics and stock co-movement.