Kscope · deep dive · 2026-10-22
The Terminal is the all-in seat. Filings, ownership, and transcripts are the slice we take. Live prices, estimates, the wire, and the rest of the bundle stay theirs.
The row stays slice. Filings, ownership, insiders, transcripts, people, and the agreement graph are live, and SEDAR continues through QuoteMedia. Live prices, estimates, the wire, and the terminal bundle stay theirs. No dollar price is printed. Bloomberg Intelligence headcount, research-source counts, document counts, the fundamentals universe, IBVAL, and the index count each disagree across the pages read, and each figure is left as printed.
| Feature | Bloomberg | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What an analyst opens | The Bloomberg Terminal, including Bloomberg Anywhere. Functions named on the pages read: Launchpad, the Professional app, Instant Bloomberg, Document Search, company financials, earnings and estimates, analyst recommendations, Financial Analysis, equity screening, Bloomberg Intelligence, Bloomberg Economics, PORT, and NOTE. BQuant Desktop is now included with the Bloomberg Anywhere subscription. ASKB, announced 2026-02-24, is conversational AI in beta. Excel is BQL. B-PIPE and Data License are enterprise feeds, separate from the seat. | Console is the filing workstation: documents, as-reported financials, ownership, insiders, and transcripts, joined on the company graph. An agent over that graph is packaging. A terminal bundle that includes the wire and the price book is their seat. | Match |
| The seat | No dollar price is printed on the Professional pages opened. Every commercial page ends in a request for a demo. Off-terminal index data requires an additional license. | The filing seat can be priced on its own. Their Anywhere price was not on these pages. | Partial |
| Feature | Bloomberg | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documents and news | The research hub says sell-side and independent research from more than 1,500 sources. The ASKB announcement says over 800 providers, plus Bloomberg Intelligence, BloombergNEF, and Bloomberg Economics, and hundreds of millions of company documents. The Professional app says search 200 million company documents. The same announcement says 5,000 original stories and more than 1.1 million curated stories daily. A news introduction page says 2,700 news professionals and analysts, 120 bureaus, and 70 countries, and also sells the consumer digital subscription. | Filing search is live, including 17,871,301 sections across eight form families, 2016 through 2026. The news archive on 2026-09-19 was 30,176,943 documents. Their original newsroom is a different corpus. | Partial |
| Fundamentals | The pages disagree. A company-financials point-in-time catalog of 2024-04-05 says 85,000 companies, 530 fields, and 17 years. Investment research data of 2025-01-13 says 100,000-plus companies, 33 years of fundamentals, 1,200 industry KPIs, and operating-segment data for 53,000 public companies. A 2024-10-24 note on the financials function says fundamental data for nearly 200,000 listed and private securities, with deep coverage for over 8,000 companies, and over 100 institutions contributing models to consensus. | As-reported face statements are about 473,000 filing-rows. Segment dollars we already extract are a slice of that operating-segment file. Their three universe counts are left as printed. | Partial |
| Ownership and people | Document Search and the company pages carry filings, holders, and insiders inside the Terminal. The overview page, search stamp 2025-02-28, prints no company-coverage count. Bloomberg Intelligence's own page says 500-plus research professionals, 2,000 company primers, and 135-plus industries. The research hub lists Bloomberg Intelligence as 350-plus. | US ownership, Form 4, and the person graph are live. People recounted 2026-10-09 are 3,876,749. Their research desk is their staff. | Ahead |
| Feature | Bloomberg | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates and research | Consensus is fed by contributor models. The financials note says over 100 institutions contribute. Bloomberg Intelligence is their research staff, and the headcount on the two pages is 350-plus and 500-plus. | A model we train on filings is our number. Their contributor consensus, and the note their analysts write, stay theirs. | Beside |
| Prices, the wire, and evaluated bonds | BVAL is evaluated prices for over 2.7 million fixed-income securities. One IBVAL page says about 30,000 USD investment-grade credits. The IBVAL product page says about 45,000 USD, GBP, and EUR credits. Indices are over 30,000 on a 2024-02-20 page and over 55,000 on a 2025-09-29 subscription page. News on the Terminal is Bloomberg's. Second Measure appears only as transaction data inside Terminal workflows. It is a different scored row. | A live price, an evaluated bond price, and the wire stay a license. A card panel is the other row, and it stays theirs. | Gap |
Ahead The feature is data we already hold, in a form an investor can use.
Match Both products do this.
Partial We hold the filing or the extract, and not their finished screen.
Gap They ship it. We do not.
Beside Live prices, contributor estimates, Bloomberg Intelligence, BVAL, and the wire stay theirs. Second Measure is a different scored row.