S&P Global Announces Successful Completion of Visible Alpha Acquisition

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Visible Alpha, the financial technology provider of deep industry and segment consensus data, creating a premium offering of fundamental investment research capabilities on S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Capital IQ Pro platform. Visible Alpha will be operated within the S&P Global Market Intelligence division.

“Visible Alpha and its innovative team are an outstanding complement to S&P Global’s culture and capabilities,” said Adam Kansler, President of S&P Global Market Intelligence. “The integration of Visible Alpha into S&P Capital IQ Pro demonstrates another transformative leap for our platform and reflects our combined commitment to providing customers with the highest quality investment research, estimates and analytics in the market.”

Founded in 2015, Visible Alpha provides consensus forecast estimates, key performance indicators, and analytics from in-depth sell-side analyst models and distributes the data through a variety of distribution channels including a web-based platform, APIs and Feeds. Visible Alpha is backed by a group of investment banks that are key contributors of research and data to the platform. Their continued contributions will further enhance the depth and breadth of the overall Visible Alpha and S&P Capital IQ Pro offering.
more at: https://investor.spglobal.com/news-releases/news-details/2024/SP-Global-Announces-Successful-Completion-of-Visible-Alpha-Acquisition/default.aspx

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