Kscope · deep dive · 2026-10-22
Capital IQ Pro is the desktop beside Console. As-reported financials, ownership, transcripts, and disclosed deals are the slice we take. Estimates, RatingsDirect, and unpublished private financials stay theirs.
The row stays slice. As-reported financials, ownership, transcripts, people, and the disclosed private graph are live. Estimates, Visible Alpha broker models, RatingsDirect, and financials a private company never publishes stay theirs. No seat price is printed. The pages disagree on public-company counts, private-company counts, estimates coverage, ownership, and fixed income, and each figure is left as printed.
| Feature | Capital IQ | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What an analyst opens | Capital IQ Pro is the desktop: company financials, a screener, estimates, ownership, transactions, filings, transcripts, news, investment research, an Excel plug-in, and fixed income. ChatIQ, Document Intelligence, and Chart Explainer are on the product page. Release notes dated 2026-09-14 and the press release of 2026-10-06 add ChatIQ across company, market, credit, and documents, plus ChatIQ Spreadsheets and ChatIQ Presentations in Labs. Capital IQ, the older platform, is still named as a second registerable product. With Intelligence private-markets data was put on Capital IQ Pro on 2026-07-29. | Console is the filing workstation on the same public graph: as-reported financials, ownership, transcripts, people, and the disclosed private deals. Chat over that graph is packaging. | Match |
| The seat | No seat price is printed. The pages say request a demo. The September 2026 notes say access to Visible Alpha BioPharma requires an additional subscription. | The filing seat can be priced on its own. A broker-model add-on is their subscription. | Partial |
| Feature | Capital IQ | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public and private companies | The English Capital IQ Pro page says 109,000-plus public companies, 49,000 active with current financials, 60 million-plus private companies, and 16 million-plus with recent financials. The Marketplace solution card says 54 million-plus private companies and 14 million-plus with financials. Chinese and Spanish pages still say about 66,000 public and 54 million private. A Discover campaign says 62-plus thousand public and 52-plus million private. An audit page says 88,000 public and 45,000 active. A private-company line says more than 70 million profiles. The 2022 brochure, footer 1022, says 62,000 public and 6-plus million private, and is left off the current Pro page. | Recounted 2026-10-09. Operating companies are 123,381, of which 82,476 are private and 40,905 are public filers. The company table holds 1,416,991 rows, and that total is a different cut: shells, unknown rows, and vehicles. Each of their figures is left as printed. Direct HTML of the product domain returned 403, so these lines are indexed text of the live URLs. | Partial |
| Filings, transcripts, and ownership | Marketplace transcripts cover 24,000-plus entities back to 2004. Machine-readable filings are 200,000-plus. The English ownership line is 49,000-plus public companies, 35,000-plus institutions, 51,000-plus funds, 337,000-plus insiders, and 12,000-plus activism campaigns. The Marketplace card says 336,000 insiders. The ownership dataset was enhanced on 2026-09-08 and is sourced from regulatory filings and documents from news vendors. | US calls are 264,816 pointers as of 2026-10-14, 189,500 joined. US ownership is 13F, N-PORT, 13D and 13G, and Form 4, the same books as the other filing pages. People are 3,876,749. A non-US filing collection is one public regime at a time. | Ahead |
| Transactions | The English page says 1.2 million-plus M&A, 340,000 equity offerings, 330,000 debt offerings, 907,000-plus funding rounds of which 258,000-plus are Crunchbase, and 104,000-plus buybacks. The Marketplace card says 646,000-plus public offerings and 870,000-plus funding rounds. The transactions dataset is about 3 million. Key developments are more than two million, from over 20,000 news sources. Named providers on the Marketplace card include Markit, Preqin, Crunchbase, CreditSafe, Dun and Bradstreet, and UK Companies House. | Parsed funding is 357,023 deals on 135,173 companies, recounted 2026-10-09. Form D is 775,619 filings and 365,054 issuers. Those two overlap and are kept separate. Mergers are 175,614 deals. A round that hits a filing, a press hit, or the crawl is on the company id. | Match |
| Feature | Capital IQ | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates and Visible Alpha | The English page says 140-plus Capital IQ Estimates metrics for 19,200-plus active companies in 110-plus countries, and Visible Alpha at over 200 million data points, 1 million-plus consensus line items, and more than 200 brokers. The current Estimates page says Capital IQ Estimates at 20,000-plus companies and 60,000-plus historical, 600-plus active contributors, history from 1996 outside the US and 1999 in the US, and Visible Alpha at 7,500-plus companies, 250-plus model contributors, and 100,000-plus line items. A 2026-02-17 case study says 7,000-plus companies. Visible Alpha is broker models they own. | An estimate trained on filings is our number. Their contributor consensus, and the broker working model inside Visible Alpha, stay a license. | Beside |
| Ratings, private financials, and bond prices | RatingsDirect is in the release-note category list. The English page says 29 million-plus government, supranational, agency, and corporate securities from Markit, and 1.6 million-plus loan facilities, 5,500-plus with current-day live prices. A 12 March 2026 press item says over 4 million structured securities from Markit were added, after 20 million-plus fixed-income securities in earlier releases. That does not arithmetic-match 29 million. Chinese and Spanish pages still say 19.4 million Markit securities and 115,000 loan facilities. Private companies with recent financials, on the English page, are 16 million-plus. | A credit view on filings we hold is a model we can publish. The S&P rating letter stays theirs. Financials a private company never publishes stay theirs. An evaluated bond price stays a license. | 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 Estimates, Visible Alpha, RatingsDirect, With Intelligence mandates, and an evaluated bond price stay a license. Financials a private company never publishes stay theirs.