[R-SIG-Finance] Older financials?

[Mark Knecht]

Thanks Erol. I'll give it a look.

Cheers,
Mark
On Nov 23, 2015 1:35 PM, "Erol Biceroglu" <erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca>
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> The only data source I've been able to find that's affordable is
> Sharadar's fundamental data, which can be downloaded with the "quandl" R
> Package.  Note, it's a premium database (not free), details are on quandl's
> website.  Lastly, they are adding de-listed companies, but my understanding
> is that it's not completely free from survivorship bias.  Note, I
> personally have not used it yet.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any other thoughts as well.  My
> apologies if my the comments above are not completely on topic.
>
>
>
>
> Erol Biceroglu
>
>
> *erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca
> <erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca>416-275-7970 <416-275-7970>*
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm reading a book on quant value investing that wants to look at more
>> financial data than I'm getting with the small program below. Looking at
>> the getFinancials help page I'm not seeing anything that tells it to go
>> back more than 4 years. Is there a way to do that with free data or is
>> this
>> a limitation WRT what Google provides and you have to go somewhere
>> else/pay
>> money to get it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>> library(quantmod);
>>
>> SymList=c("MCD","GD","AAPL");
>> Quotes = getQuote(SymList, src="yahoo");
>>
>> for (Sym in SymList){
>>   getFinancials(Sym, src="google");
>>   getDividends(Sym, src="google");
>> }
>>
>> print(Quotes)
>>
>> print(viewFinancials(MCD.f, period="Q", type="IS"))
>> print(viewFinancials(MCD.f, period="A", type="CF"))
>> print(viewFinancials(MCD.f, period="Q", type="BS"))
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