# S&P Global

> S&P Global is the company behind some of finance's most-quoted numbers - the S&P 500 index, sovereign and corporate credit ratings, and the Platts oil benchmarks that price much of the world's energy. Formed over 160 years from Henry Varnum Poor's railroad ledgers and supercharged by the $44 billion merger with IHS Markit in 2022, it sells ratings, data, indices, and analytics to banks, asset managers, corporations, and governments. Roughly 40,000 employees turn raw market and commodity data into the reference points other people trade on.

- **Founded:** 1860
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Henry Varnum Poor (Founder, H.V. & H.W. Poor Co. (1860)), Luther Lee Blake (Founder, Standard Statistics Bureau (1906))
- **Team size:** ~40,000 employees
- **Products:** S&P Global Ratings, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts), S&P Capital IQ Pro
- **Notable:** Created and maintains the S&P 500, the world's most widely followed equity benchmark., Completed the $44 billion IHS Markit merger in 2022, one of the largest deals in financial-information history., One of the 'Big Three' credit rating agencies, alongside Moody's and Fitch.

## Products & services

- **S&P Global Ratings** — Independent credit ratings and research on corporate, financial, and sovereign debt, using the familiar AAA-to-D scale that helps set borrowing costs worldwide.
- **S&P Dow Jones Indices** — The index business behind the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, calculating hundreds of thousands of indices that ETFs and funds track globally.
- **S&P Global Market Intelligence** — Data, research, and analytics platforms - including S&P Capital IQ Pro - used by investors, banks, and corporates to screen companies, model deals, and assess risk.
- **S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts)** — Price assessments and benchmarks for oil, gas, metals, petrochemicals, and agriculture markets, including the widely referenced Platts energy benchmarks.
- **S&P Capital IQ Pro** — Flagship desktop and API platform with data on 60M+ private companies and 110,000+ PE/VC funds, now embedding generative-AI tools like ChatIQ and Document Intelligence.
- **S&P Global Mobility** — Automotive data and forecasting (including the former IHS Markit auto business), which S&P Global announced in 2025 it intends to spin off as a standalone public company.

## Achievements

- Created and maintains the S&P 500, the world's most widely followed equity benchmark.
- Completed the $44 billion IHS Markit merger in 2022, one of the largest deals in financial-information history.
- One of the 'Big Three' credit rating agencies, alongside Moody's and Fitch.
- Traces its origins to 1860 and Henry Varnum Poor's push for transparent investor information.
- Calculates over 830,000 indices that serve as the basis for hundreds of ETFs worldwide.

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Martina Cheung became President and CEO of S&P Global, succeeding Douglas Peterson.
- **2025-04** — S&P Global announced its intent to spin off S&P Global Mobility into a standalone public company to focus on its four core divisions.
- **2025-01** — Expanded private-markets datasets from With Intelligence integrated into S&P Capital IQ Pro.

## Links

- Website: https://www.spglobal.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spglobal
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SPGlobal
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/spglobal
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spglobal
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandpglobal

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Last updated: 2026-08-12