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Estimates, Events & Fund Flows

Estimates, events, and fund-flow data is market metadata: analyst consensus, corporate-event and dividend calendars, and records of money moving in and out of funds.

9 providers tracked9 verifiedAs of 2026-07-02

The primer

This category covers the forward-looking scaffolding of the market: consensus earnings and revenue estimates, calendars of corporate events such as earnings dates, dividends, splits, and conferences, and measurements of where money is actually flowing between funds and asset classes. Providers assemble these from analyst contributions, corporate-actions databases, and fund-level reporting, then clean and standardise them so they line up cleanly against tickers. Alongside the datasets sit the data marketplaces that aggregate and redistribute non-market financial and economic series. Investors use consensus estimates to define what the market already expects and to measure surprise; they use event calendars to schedule research and manage exposure around catalysts; and they use fund-flow data to read sentiment and positioning across regions and sectors. A dividend-forecast feed, for instance, lets an income investor model two fiscal years of expected payments, while a fund-flow series can flag a rotation out of an asset class before prices fully reflect it. Key buyer considerations are the breadth and timeliness of contributor or fund coverage, the depth of point-in-time history needed to back-test without look-ahead bias, and the accuracy of corporate-event dates. For marketplace data, the questions shift to licensing terms, provenance, and how cleanly third-party series are documented and maintained.

The register

Every estimates, events & fund flows provider on file. Verified means the site is live, on its own brand, and editorially checked — never paid placement. Listings are informational, not investment advice.

ProviderGeographySinceDeliveryPrice band

AccrueVerifiedForward-looking global event calendar and historical event database, marketed as a digital almanac for event-driven investors.UK2016——

DataYesVerifiedChinese investment-research platform with an open data marketplace covering fundamental and quantitative datasets for institutional users.China2013——

EPFRVerifiedDaily and weekly fund-flows and asset-allocation data tracking traditional and alternative funds worldwide; part of ISI Markets.US1995——

EstimizeVerifiedCrowdsourced consensus earnings and revenue estimates contributed by buy-side, sell-side, and independent analysts.US2011——

Exante DataVerifiedMacro data and analytics on cross-border capital flows, FX, and global liquidity for macro-focused investors.US2016——

Nasdaq Data LinkVerifiedData marketplace, formerly Quandl, distributing financial, economic, and alternative datasets from many publishers through a single API.Canada2012API—

QUICK CorpVerifiedJapanese financial information company, a Nikkei group member, providing QUICK Consensus estimates and market data with deep coverage of Japanese equities.Japan1971——

Wall Street HorizonVerifiedForward-looking and historical corporate-event data, including earnings dates, dividends, splits, spin-offs, and investor conferences.US2003——

WoodseerVerifiedDividend forecast data covering dates and amounts for tens of thousands of securities, combining an algorithm with analyst review; now part of OptionMetrics.UK2017——

Elsewhere in the atlas

Previous chapter: Auto & Vehicle Data. Next chapter: Card & Transactions. All 20 categories are defined in the glossary; the full register is on the front page, and the market counts are in the Atlas Briefing.