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This page provides a glossary for the Issuer Fields.

Guarantor Country

This field allows you to search the country of incorporation of the guarantor.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.

Guarantor Primary Industry This field allows you to search the industry that the guarantor earns most of its revenues from. It is very rare that a company has more than one primary industry, but this can happen if all of its primary industries have equal revenues!

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Issuer Continent / Region:

This field allows you to search the continent or region in which the country of incorporation of the issuer resides.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.

Click here to view a complete list of countries included in each region.

Issuer Country This field allows you to search the country of incorporation of the issuer.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Issuer Group Industry This field searches through all industries that an issuer, its parent and subsidiaries are active.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Issuer Group Industry SIC Code

This field contains the four digit Standard Industry Code(s) of the industry (ies) in the Issuer Group Industry field. For example, for 9224 – fire protection, type in the four digits 9224.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.

Issuer Investment Grade If you select the High Yield checkbox, you will only find High Yield issuers. A High Yield issuer is defined as a corporate issuer with either no issuer rating at all or at least a below investment grade rating by S&P or Moody’s. Below investment grade means a rating below BBB- for S&P and below Baa3 for Moody’s.
Issuer Moody's Rating This field allows you to search the Issuer’s credit rating by Moody’s. If the Issuer does not have a credit rating by Moody’s, we use the Issuer’s unsecured unsubordinated long-term debt rating by Moody’s as a proxy.
Issuer Primary Industry This field allows you to search the industry that the issuer earns most of its revenues from. It is very rare that an issuer has more than one primary industry, but this can happen if all of its primary industries have equal revenues!

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Issuer Primary Industry SIC Code This field contains the four digit Standard Industry Codes (SIC) for the primary industry (ies) of the issuer. For example, for 9224 – fire protection, type in the four digits 9224).

Visit the U.S. Department of Labor's website to see a list of all the SIC codes in detail.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Issuer Secondary Industry This field contains the industries that an issuer may receive revenues from, but are not its primary source of earnings.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Issuer Secondary Industry SIC Code

This field contains the four digit Standard Industry Codes (SIC) for the secondary industry (ies) of the issuer. For example, for 9224 – fire protection, type in the four digits 9224).

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.

Issuer Sector This field allows you to search the issuer sector field to find the issuer’s sector rather than specific industry. Industries are more detailed than sectors, therefore the 68 industries merge into 21 industry sectors.

For example, if you are looking for deals by financial issuers, select Finance from Issuer Sector).

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Issuer Standard & Poor's Rating This field allows you to search the Issuer’s credit rating by S&P. If the Issuer does not have a credit rating by S&P, we use the Issuer’s unsecured unsubordinated long-term debt rating by S&P as a proxy.
Issuer Ticker This field allows you to search the ticker or symbol of the issuer.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.