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Company Name, End of Period

Category: Name History

Data Type: String

Summary

Company name effective at the end of the period reported.

Extended Information

Company Name is the name of the company at the time of its name history record. CRSP allocates a 35 character name description field for all securities. Preference is given to the spellings and abbreviations provided in Standard & Poor's CUSIP Directory. In cases where name sources provide descriptions in excess of 35 characters, CRSP furnishes its own abbreviations.Daily: The daily file includes all historical names included in the file beginning in 1925.

Date Range Availability

DailyMonthly
19251925

Database Availability and Product Types

Database FormatsProduct Types
CRSPAccessSTK

ts_print/TsQuery Usage

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Monthly ITEMIDmcomnam
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