Balance Sheets
Get balance sheets for a ticker.
π Overview
The balance sheets API provides balance sheet data for a given stock ticker.
Balance sheets are financial statements that summarize a companyβs assets, liabilities, and shareholdersβ equity at a specific point in time.
You can filter the data by ticker
, period
, limit
, and cik
.
The period
parameter can be set to annual
, quarterly
, or ttm
(trailing twelve months). The limit
parameter is used to specify the number of statements to return.
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.
π Available Tickers
You can fetch a list of available tickers with a GET
request to:
https://api.financialdatasets.ai/financials/balance-sheets/tickers/
π 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
,period
andlimit
to filter the data. - Execute the API request.
π Filtering the Data
You can filter the data by ticker
, period
, limit
, and report_period
.
Note: ticker
and period
are required. Alternatively, you can use cik
instead of ticker
as a company identifier in your request.
By default, period
is ttm
,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 statement. For example, you can include filters like report_period_lte=2024-09-30
and report_period_gte=2024-01-01
to get statements 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
π» Example
π» Example (with report_period)
Authorizations
API key for authentication.
Query Parameters
The ticker symbol.
The time period of the balance sheets.
annual
, quarterly
, ttm
The maximum number of balance sheets to return
The Central Index Key (CIK) of the company.