FactSet’s corporate governance database, SharkRepellent, provides takeover defense and corporate governance data for more than 4,500 U.S. incorporated public companies. You can obtain comprehensive data to prospect for new business, assess the defensive characteristics of specific companies, and perform comparable analyses across endless variables, including industry, market index, market capitalization, and state of incorporation. 

You can access FactSet SharkRepellent through FactSet applications and the FactSet SharkRepellent.net website.

Scope and Coverage

(as of August 2007)

Source documents: 25,000

Data items: 200

Defense profiles: 4,500 U.S. incorporated public companies

Coverage: Since 1999

Updated: Daily

Dataset Features:

• Find out how well defended a company is with SharkRepellent’s proprietary Bullet Proof Rating System, which quantifies relative defense protection and allows you to find companies with strong or weak defenses
• Quickly create and save custom reports by compiling information from a company’s articles of incorporation, bylaws, state takeover laws, and shareholder rights plans, or access SharkRepellent’s expanding library of presentation-ready reports designed to help simplify complex research
• Receive custom alerts to monitor adoptions and changes to poison pills as well as share repurchase programs for client portfolios
• Automatically generate comprehensive company defense profiles and compare them across a group of selected peers