Our Unique, Global Database

Credit Suisse HOLT seeks to provide clients with the highest quality and most timely corporate performance and valuation insights by leveraging leading independent data vendors and a highly trained team of industry-focused accounting and valuation experts .

Breadth:

HOLT uses the highest quality independent data vendors in each region of the world, enabling us to provide complete global coverage of more than 18,000 companies in over 55 countries. HOLT's global database includes coverage of over 6,000 firms in North America, 4,000 in Europe, 3,500 in Japan, and 3,000 in Non-Japan Asia.

Consistency:

The use of data vendors enhances the accuracy of financial data, and provides a level of consistency that is difficult to achieve on a hand-collected basis.

Global Treatment:

HOLT's sector specialist team makes adjustments on a global basis. The sector specialists are an industry-focused team of accounting and valuation experts who oversee the quality and accuracy of financial data.

Training:

All sector specialists receive rigorous training to ensure that data review and adjustments comply with rules set forth within the HOLT™ Model and Framework.

Accuracy:

Data is scrubbed twice for accuracy, once by the data vendor and then again by our sector specialist.

Ongoing Data Improvements:

New companies and countries are added to the ValueSearch™ software database on a regular basis. Data is continuously reviewed to ensure that the HOLT™ Methodology captures the economic profitability of each business, free of accounting distortions. In addition, updates to our ValueSearch product are provided on a weekly basis to facilitate timely analysis and decisions.