Waters Rankings 2026: Best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider—S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P Global Market Intelligence wins best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider in the 2026 Waters Rankings for its S&P Capital IQ Pro product.
Overview
S&P Capital IQ Pro integrates financial data, analytics, and generative AI (GenAI) to support research, valuation, and workflow automation. It is designed to help users analyze documents, interpret market activity, and generate insights from large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
The solution
S&P Capital IQ Pro embeds AI across workflows. Users can interact with transcripts, filings, news and research to extract insights and summarize documents and analyze sentiment scores for earnings call transcripts using Document Intelligence and ChatIQ. They can also summarize news and events driving stock price movement in Chart Explainer and leverage natural language prompts to create formulas for models in Excel with the Capital IQ Pro Office Plug-in, reducing manual effort and accelerating analysis.
This recognition underscores the value of bringing AI directly into the workflows financial professionals rely on every day. By combining trusted data, research and market intelligence with AI capabilities in S&P Capital IQ Pro, we help users move from information to insight faster while maintaining transparency and confidence in their analysis
Whit McGraw, head of platforms, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Secret sauce
S&P Capital IQ Pro differentiates itself by combining proprietary company, market, transcript, news, and research content with embedded AI in a single platform. Rather than requiring separate AI tools, users can access AI-powered insights directly within familiar workflows, with source-linked answers that help support transparency, validation, and decision-making.
Recent milestones
Recent S&P Capital IQ Pro enhancements include multi-document querying, AI-driven transcript summaries, sentiment analysis, GenAI-powered chart explanations, and the introduction of a natural language AI assistant in Excel for formula generation, helping users move from questions to analysis more efficiently.
Product roadmap
S&P Capital IQ Pro’s roadmap focuses on expanding its GenAI capabilities across workflows, including enhanced ChatIQ capabilities that combine broader content coverage, context awareness, screening, and visualizations to provide deeper insights. It also includes Modeling Assistant in Excel that leverages natural language queries to streamline financial modeling and valuation workflows, and personalized user experiences across markets, companies, and deals to enhance market monitoring use-cases.
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