Thomson Financial, the information and technology supplier for the financial industry, has added alternate earnings estimates for companies traded on US stock exchanges to its First Call Analyst real-time integrated research and analytical application.

Alternate estimates are estimates not calculated on the same basis as those used by the majority of brokers. First Call Analyst already displays these estimates for all forecast measures for companies based in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The addition of the US estimates brings to 20 the number of forecast measures institutional investor users of First Call Analyst can draw on to help value a company. Measures include earnings per share and alternate earnings per share, revenue and sales, earnings before goodwill amortisation, net asset value and return on equity.