Using Commercial Share of Wallet To Rate Investments

A computer-based system comprising:

• a processor for rating an investment fund;
• and
• a tangible, non-transitory memory in communication with the processor for storing a plurality of instructions for directing the processor to perform operations comprising:
• estimating, by the processor, a commercial size of spending wallet for a plurality of companies in which an investment fund has likely invested based on known financial statement data of each company in the plurality of companies, total known business spending of each company in the plurality of companies, and a model of industry spending patterns, wherein the commercial size of spending wallet is the total business spending of the plurality of companies that can be transacted using a transaction account, wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer financial statement data and spending data that is not known;
• and
• determining, by the processor, a quality rating for the investment fund based on the commercial size of spending wallet for the plurality of companies.

A method comprising:

• identifying, by a computer-based system for evaluation of the business prospects of a company comprising a processor and a tangible and non-transitory memory, a plurality of businesses that are potential marketing targets;
• modeling, by the computer-based system, industry spending patterns using individual corporate data and aggregate corporate data, including financial statement data;
• estimating, by the computer-based system, a commercial size of spending wallet for a business in the plurality of businesses, wherein the estimating is based on known financial statement data of the business, total known business spending of the business, and the model of industry spending patterns, wherein the commercial size of spending wallet is the total spending of the business that can be transacted using a transaction account, and wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer financial statement data and spending data that is not known;
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• rating, by the computer-based system, the business based on the commercial size of spending wallet.