Bloomberg Terminal Cheat Sheet

Bloomberg Terminal Shortcuts

We illustrate our experience using the Bloomberg terminal in an equity-focused analysis. Our goal is to enable users inexperienced with the terminal to do a proper analysis. We identify the most significant challenges we face and provide a useful bloomberg cheat sheet.

Shortcut	Business Summary
DES: Description	Company’s Background Information
HH: Hoover’s Handbook	Company’s Background Information
FA: Financial Analysis	Fiscal Year Revenues

Shortcut	Economic and Industry Trends
ECFC: Growth Rates	Real GDP Growth
ECOW: Economic Data Watch	Country Specific Macro Info
BI: Bloomberg Industries	Industry Trends
CN: All News	News Search on Specific Stock
NSE: News Search	News Search on Industry

Shortcut	Valuation
DDM: Dividend Discount Model	Calculation of intrinsic value
DVD: Dividend/Split Summary	Historical Dividends/Splits
BI: Bloomberg Industries	Industry Trends
FA CF: Cash Flow Analysis	Estimate of Free Cash Flow
BETA: Beta Calculations	Estimate Adjusted Beta
WACC: Weighted Av. Cost of Capital	Obtain Risk-free Rate

Shortcut	Company Overview
CF	Company Filings
HH	Hoover’s Handbook
CRPR	Credit Profile
MGHL	Management Holdings
DES	Description
OWN	Ownership Summary
DVD	Dividend/Split Summary
RSKC	Company Risk
GPTR	Insider Transactions

Shortcut	Company Analysis
BETA	Beta Calculations
FA	Financial Analysis
DDM	Dividend Discount Model
WACC	Weighted Average Cost of Capital

Shortcut	Research & Estimate
ANR	Analyst Recommendations
EE	Earnings Estimates
CN	All News/Research
SURP	Surprise Analysis

Shortcut	Comparative Analysis
COMP	Comparative Total Returns
RV	Relative Value
PC	Peer Correlation
RVR	Relative Value Ranking

Shortcut	Charting & Reporting
FG	Fundamentals Graph
HP	Price Table w/Avg Daily Volume
GIP	Intraday Price Graph
IGPO	Intraday Bar Graph
GP	Price Graph w/Volume
TECH	Technical Study Browser
GPO	Price Bar Graph w/ Moving Avg

Shortcut	Security Surveillance
BQ	Bloomberg Quote
QR	Trade Recap
EVT	Event Calendar
LITI	Company Litigation Summary

Shortcut	Economic Analysis Functions
ECFC	Economic Forecasts
ECST	World Economic Statistics
ECO	World Economic Calendar
FED	Federal Reserve Portal
ECOF	Economic Data Finder
FOMC	FOMC Activities
ECOW	Economic Data Watch

Shortcut	Portfolio Construction
ALPM	Alpha Menu
PBEN	Portfolio Benchmarks
PLST	Portfolio List
PDIS	Portfolio Distribution
PRTU	Creating and Updating Portfolios
PTT	Portfolio Trade Ticket
PFST	Portfolio Update

Shortcut	Ongoing Management
EVTS	Event Calendar
PDSP	Portfolio Display
NPH	Portfolio News and Research Headlines
PRT	Equity Portfolio Real Time Monitor

Shortcut	Performance Reporting
PDVD	Portfolio Dividend/Split Report
PSD	Portfolio Slice and Dice
PREP	Portfolio Distribution Reports
PVAR	Portfolio Value at Risk
PRPT	Custom Report Writer
RPT	Retrieve and Monitor Reports

Shortcut	Broad Market Screens	Uses
WEI	World Equity Indices	Allows you to monitor and compare real-time price and volume data for the world’s equity indices.
WPE	World P/E	Allows you monitor and analyze key fundamental ratios, such as price/earnings, across major equity indices and compare intra-day index level ratios against analyst estimates and other regions.
ECO CA	Canadian (& U.S.) Economic Releases	Economic calendars of real-time and upcoming economic releases, commodity, government, central bank and industry data, and events.
ECST	Economic Statistics by Country	Provides economic data with organization and context and allows to analyze multiple datasets using graphical and table formats.
MOV	Index & Industry Group Movers	Shows stocks that drive the movement of a selected index or other equity group.
MA	Merger/Acquisition Database	Allows tracking and analyzing mergers and acquisitions data in real time and easily filter for deals by a range of dimensions, such as deal type, size, and adviser. Also allows finding deal-level data. Additionally, allows searching for comparable transactions.
WFX	Cross Currency Rate Monitors	Gives an overview of currency rates in real time, also provides information on pricing hours for better monitoring.
FXC	Currency Rates Matrix	Allows monitoring cross currency spot, forward, and fixing rates.
RATC	Rating Revisions Monitor	Displays a list of current and historical credit ratings for up to 10,000 issuers, allowing to track upgrades, downgrades, and other moves that reflect the issuer’s fiscal strength and degree of risk.
BTMM	Interest Rates & the Bond Market	Shows all major rates, securities, and economic releases for a selected country.
USSW	Treasury I Swaps Monitor pages	Provides current interest rate swap rates, along with government, agency, index, LIBOR, and futures markets rates, plus economic statistics.
FIT	Fixed Income Trading	Fixed income electronic trading platform for U.S. rates and a broad set of global sovereign debt.
WB	World Bond Markets	Monitor and chart sovereign bond yields, spreads, and historical performance on one screen, along with current yields, spreads and current rates’ statistical deviation from averages.
CDR	Markets Calendar	Shows when markets are open/closed and when they are operating on a partial day schedule.
MMR	Money Market/LIBOR Rates	Displays a menu of real-time global money market rate monitors for comparison against composite prices, third party prices, and electronic trading prices.
SRCH	Corp/Govt/Convert Bond Search	Create customized lists of loans, government and corporate bonds, structured notes, municipal bonds, and preferred securities from the Bloomberg database.
CRVF	All  Yield  Curves – Treas/Muni/Corp	Allows to search for curves, filtering by asset class, and country/region and/or sector.
PICK	Muni Offerings	Monitor U.S. municipal bond market offerings, bids wanted, and reported transactions in one place.

Shortcut	Today’s Markets	Uses
GIP	Intraday Price Graph – up to 240 days	Visual time series analysis tool used to evaluate a security’s intraday price trends for a period of up to 240 days.
QR	Time/Sales  (Quote Recap)	QR displays a quote-by-quote and trade-by-trade history for a selected equity.
BQ	Customizable  Company  Overview	Povides detailed quotes, valuation and earnings ratios, peer activity, consensus forecasts, past performance trends, and related news headlines for an equity, equity option, or fund.
BAS	Broker Activity Summary	Provides broker activity summaries for exchanges, preferreds, equities, commodities, futures, warrants, REITs, funds, ETFs, and bonds.
AQR	Average Quote Recap	Displays the Top Trades in the Price and Volume Dashboard (VWAP) function.
VAP	Volume At Price	Displays the Volume at Price tab in the Price and Volume Dashboard (VWAP) function.
TSM	Trade Summary Matrix	Displays the Trade Summary Matrix tab in the Price and Volume Dashboard (VWAP) function.
OMON	Customizable Option Monitor	Provides real-time pricing, market data, and derived data for exchange-traded call and put options for a selected underlying security in a customizable screen.

Shortcut	Index Analysis	Uses
TRAY	Total Return	Displays the simple, annualized, and semi-annualized price appreciation of an index for 20 different time periods.
MOV	Index Movers	Allows analysis of the stocks that drive the movement of a selected index or other equity group.
MRR	Member Returns	Ranks the members of an equity index, basket, or portfolio by price appreciation or total return.
MEMB	Member Weights	Displays the members of an index and its current weightings, along with shares and price performance.