“The behemoths of the stock market have become so big that they’re distorting gauges that define company size. CRSP’s definition of large stocks includes those in the top 85% of the entire market. The norm from other index providers is to count stocks from the biggest down and define those after a certain number as small.”
Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.
As communicated previously, CRSP is migrating to a new back office. This requires that subscribers migrate to the Stock & Indexes Flat File Format 2.0 (CIZ), which was made available in summer 2022. The December 2024 data which will be released in January 2025, is scheduled to be the last release of datasets produced in the Legacy (FIZ) and Flat File Format 1.0 (SIZ) formats. Subscribers may refer to several documents to become familiar with the Flat File Format 2.0 (CIZ) files.
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