financial sectoral indicators (ECB/INPI)

These data are used to position a company’s financial ratios to a cohort of similar firms, based on a comparison by industry, turnover and year of year.

Each line of this data source allows you to consult the percentiles of each sector ratio, calculated on a cohort of selected balance sheets (50 minimum) based on their sector of activity, turnover and year of year.

The distribution of percentiles is carried out on a sample sorted in ascending order. The percentiles are calculated using a continuous percentile method, following a linear regression (see PostgreSQL percentile_cont method).

The values q10/q25/q50/q75/q90 mean the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th percentiles of the distribution:
- Q10 represents the value below which is 10 % of the data. If this value does not exist exactly in the data, it will be determined by linear interpolation.
- Q25, or the first quartile, represents the value below which is 25 % of the data.
- Q50, or median, is the value that divides the data into two equal halves, i.e. 50 % of the data is less than this value.
- Q75, or the third quartile, is the value below which is 75 % of the data.
- Q90 is the value below which is 90 % of the data.

Sectoral ratios from INPI/ECB financial indicators