Credit ratings, research, and analytics
1 conceptS&P Global Ratings provides credit ratings, surveillance, research, and analytics for issuers and debt instruments.
A tighter look at the products that matter most to S&P Global, along with the free, open, decentralized, or cooperative alternatives already creating pricing pressure and the original disruption concepts that could widen that pressure further.
Products
These pages zoom into the products and services that matter most to each company, the alternatives already nibbling at them, and 3 structured disruption concepts across the current product set.
Credit ratings, research, and analytics
1 conceptS&P Global Ratings provides credit ratings, surveillance, research, and analytics for issuers and debt instruments.
Financial indices and benchmarks
2 conceptsS&P Dow Jones Indices maintains benchmark indices and licenses them for investment products, derivatives, data subscriptions, and analytics.
Paper trail
These sources shaped the scoring and writing. The site is opinionated, but it should not behave like it is improvising facts in a dark room.
S&P Global · annual report
Primary source for 2025 revenue, operating profit, Ratings economics, Indices economics, and business descriptions.
Reviewed 2026-05-27
S&P Global · investor relations
Supports the moat narrative around proprietary benchmarks, data, tools, and trusted market brands.
Reviewed 2026-05-27
CompaniesMarketCap · market data
Market-cap source for SPGI around the May 2026 snapshot refresh.
Reviewed 2026-05-27
StockAnalysis · market data
Valuation source for trailing P/E and cross-check market capitalization.
Reviewed 2026-05-27