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08. Data from Bloomberg Formulas. Launch Bloomberg and Press GO. Enter your login details. Choose Settings Wheel, then set window size to Normal . From Windows Menu Click Install Excel Add-In. Press Install. Click OK. Click Microsoft Excel 2010. File -> Open -> 08b-datastart.xlsx.
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When we know the Ticker symbol of an asset we can use Bloomberg formulas to download data directly to Excel
Historical Data: BDHBloomberg Data HistoricalSpecify particular dates
For variables with a calendar we use a BDH formula, which also needs a start and end date for the data
Historical Data: BDHBloomberg Data HistoricalAccounting Data
Balance sheet data is usually only available on a quarterly or annual basis so we need to be careful about dates
Use the same BDH formula as before but specify Financial Years as“FY2011”,and request data per Financial Year “per=fy”
Select Top 20 Holders and Addto get largest shareholders in a company
Extract first row using=BDS(Ticker,Datafield,“StartRow=1”,“EndRow=1”)
Shows largest shareholder in this company, with the percentage of shares which he owns
Challenge • Calculate the current Dividend Yield for each company • Calculate the Total Assets for Financial Year 2011 for each company
Multiple rows of data for one company • All of the examples so far have been used to get one piece of data at a time for a particular company • The formulas can also be used to get data for multiple time periods at once
If we want to find data for Google we type itsticker symbol which is GOOG US Equity