Factset vs. CapIQ?

What are your opinions? My firm is thinking about switching over. Factset seems like they are more integrated based on the presentation we got. Do they really do anything CapIQ doesn't? I'm coming from a long/short portfolio and equity research perspective.

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Personally use both. CapIQ is decent enough but can give some dogshit info when it comes to M&A etc (for which I mainly use mergermarket). Plus the factset interface is pretty nice. My two cents

 

Bloomberg :-P

When I used these I thought CapIQ was 10x better than factset (and bbg) in terms of interface, data cleaning. Nowadays I find Bbg has actually pretty much caught up so I have no need for CapIQ.

I am on the public side though - might be different if you do more deal/ m&a type work

 

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