Historical

👋 Overview

The historical financial metrics API provides historical financial metrics and ratios for a given stock ticker.

Financial metrics include a company’s valuation, profitability, efficiency, liquidity, leverage, growth, and per share metrics over a specified period.

To get started, please create an account and grab your API key at financialdatasets.ai.

You will use the API key to authenticate your API requests.

📊 Available Tickers

You can fetch a list of available tickers with a GET request to: https://api.financialdatasets.ai/financial-metrics/tickers/

🚀 Getting Started

There are only 3 steps for making a successful API call:

Add your API key to the header of the request as X-API-KEY.
Add query params like ticker to filter the data.
Execute the API request.

🔎 Filtering the Data

You can filter the data by ticker, period, limit, and report_period.

Note: ticker and period are required. By default, limit is 4 and report_period is null.

The period parameter can be set to annual, quarterly, or ttm (trailing twelve months). The limit parameter is used to specify the number of periods to return.

The report_period parameter is used to specify the date of the financial metrics. For example, you can include filters like report_period_lte=2024-09-30 and report_period_gte=2024-01-01 to get financial metrics between January 1, 2024 and September 30, 2024.

The available report_period operations are:

report_period_lte
report_period_lt
report_period_gte
report_period_gt
report_period

💻 Example

Financial Metrics
import requests

# add your API key to the headers
headers = {
    "X-API-KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}

# set your query params
ticker = 'NVDA'     # stock ticker
period = 'annual'   # possible values are 'annual', 'quarterly', or 'ttm'
limit = 30          # number of periods to return

# create the URL
url = (
    f'https://api.financialdatasets.ai/financial-metrics'
    f'?ticker={ticker}'
    f'&period={period}'
    f'&limit={limit}'
)

# make API request
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

# parse financial_metrics from the response
financial_metrics = response.json().get('financial_metrics')

💻 Example (with report_period)

Financial Metrics
import requests

# add your API key to the headers
headers = {
    "X-API-KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}

# set your query params
ticker = 'NVDA'     
period = 'ttm'      
report_period_lte = '2024-01-01' # end date
report_period_gte = '2020-01-01' # start date

# create the URL
url = (
    f'https://api.financialdatasets.ai/financial-metrics'
    f'?ticker={ticker}'
    f'&period={period}'
    f'&report_period_lte={report_period_lte}'
    f'&report_period_gte={report_period_gte}'
)

# make API request
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

# parse financial_metrics from the response
financial_metrics = response.json().get('financial_metrics')

Authorizations

X-API-KEY

string

header

required

API key for authentication.

Query Parameters

ticker

string

required

The ticker symbol of the company.

period

enum<string>

required

The time period for the financial data.

Available options:

annual,

quarterly,

ttm

limit

integer

The maximum number of results to return.

Response

200 - application/json

asset_turnover

number

Revenue divided by average total assets.

book_value_growth

number

Year-over-year growth in book value.

Shareholders' equity divided by shares outstanding.

cash_ratio

number

Cash and cash equivalents divided by current liabilities.

current_ratio

number

Current assets divided by current liabilities.

days_sales_outstanding

number

Average accounts receivable divided by revenue over the period.

debt_to_assets

number

Total debt divided by total assets.

debt_to_equity

number

Total debt divided by shareholders' equity.

earnings_growth

number

Year-over-year growth in earnings.

Net income divided by weighted average shares outstanding.

Growth in earnings per share over the period.

ebitda_growth

number

Growth in EBITDA over the period.

enterprise_value

number

The total value of the company (market cap + debt - cash).

enterprise_value_to_ebitda_ratio

number

Enterprise value to EBITDA ratio.

enterprise_value_to_revenue_ratio

number

Enterprise value to revenue ratio.

free_cash_flow_growth

number

Growth in free cash flow over the period.

Free cash flow divided by shares outstanding.

free_cash_flow_yield

number

Free cash flow yield.

gross_margin

number

Gross profit as a percentage of revenue.

interest_coverage

number

EBIT divided by interest expense.

inventory_turnover

number

Cost of goods sold divided by average inventory.

market_cap

number

The market capitalization of the company.

net_margin

number

Net income as a percentage of revenue.

operating_cash_flow_ratio

number

Operating cash flow divided by current liabilities.

operating_cycle

number

Inventory turnover + receivables turnover.

operating_income_growth

number

Growth in operating income over the period.

operating_margin

number

Operating income as a percentage of revenue.

payout_ratio

number

Dividends paid as a percentage of net income.

peg_ratio

number

Price to earnings growth ratio.

price_to_book_ratio

number

Price to book ratio.

price_to_earnings_ratio

number

Price to earnings ratio.

price_to_sales_ratio

number

Price to sales ratio.

quick_ratio

number

Quick assets divided by current liabilities.

receivables_turnover

number

Revenue divided by average accounts receivable.

return_on_assets

number

Net income as a percentage of total assets.

return_on_equity

number

Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity.

return_on_invested_capital

number

Net operating profit after taxes as a percentage of invested capital.

revenue_growth

number

Year-over-year growth in revenue.

ticker

string

The ticker symbol of the company.

working_capital_turnover

number

Revenue divided by average working capital.

Get Started

Our APIs

👋 Overview

📊 Available Tickers

🚀 Getting Started

🔎 Filtering the Data

💻 Example

💻 Example (with report_period)

Authorizations

Query Parameters

Response

Get Started

Our APIs

​👋 Overview

​📊 Available Tickers

​🚀 Getting Started

​🔎 Filtering the Data

​💻 Example

​💻 Example (with report_period)

Authorizations

Query Parameters

Response

👋 Overview

📊 Available Tickers

🚀 Getting Started

🔎 Filtering the Data

💻 Example

💻 Example (with report_period)