# Visible Alpha

> Visible Alpha is an institutional financial data and analytics business within S&P Global Market Intelligence. It extracts and standardizes forecasts from sell-side analysts’ working models, allowing investors, banks and companies to compare consensus expectations, operating assumptions and revisions through Insights, BioPharma, Excel and data services.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Scott Rosen (Founder and founding CEO), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Founding bank), Citi (Founding bank), Jefferies (Founding bank), Morgan Stanley (Founding bank), UBS (Founding bank)
- **Products:** Visible Alpha Insights, Visible Alpha BioPharma, Excel Add-In, Visible Alpha Data Services, Visible Alpha on S&P Capital IQ Pro
- **Notable:** Commercial platform launched in February 2017 with more than 1,500 companies and over 20 research contributors., Raised $38 million in strategic equity financing in January 2018., Acquired by S&P Global on May 1, 2024.

## Products & services

- **Visible Alpha Insights** — Granular consensus, broker estimates, historical actuals and tools for comparing forecasts and revisions.
- **Visible Alpha BioPharma** — Drug-level consensus forecasts, attributes, indication and geography analysis, and gross versus risk-adjusted revenue estimates.
- **Excel Add-In** — Data export, templates and dynamic formulas for spreadsheet-based research.
- **Visible Alpha Data Services** — API, bulk feeds and Snowflake access to consensus and broker data.
- **Visible Alpha on S&P Capital IQ Pro** — An add-on providing granular historical financials and consensus estimates within Capital IQ Pro.
- **Visible Alpha in the S&P Global AI Data Portal** — Structured retrieval of licensed estimates, financial line items and segment data in MCP-enabled AI workflows.

## Achievements

- Commercial platform launched in February 2017 with more than 1,500 companies and over 20 research contributors.
- Raised $38 million in strategic equity financing in January 2018.
- Acquired by S&P Global on May 1, 2024.
- Integrated into Capital IQ Pro as an add-on in March 2025.
- October 2026 announcement reported more than 8,000 companies across 170+ industries and over 250 contributing brokers.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — October 15: Visible Alpha data became available through S&P Global’s AI Data Portal using Deterministic Retrieval; Adaptive Retrieval support was expected later in 2026.
- **2026-09** — September 25: published analysis separating price and volume contributions to consumer-products growth expectations.
- **2025-03** — March 25: granular historical financials and estimates launched as a Capital IQ Pro add-on.

## Links

- Website: https://visiblealpha.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/visible-alpha/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/visiblealpha
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/visiblealpha/

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Last updated: 2026-10-17