[R-SIG-Finance] Finding stock splits and dividend information

H @gent@ @end|ng |rom medd@t@|nc@com
Sat Jan 1 01:19:49 CET 2022


On 12/26/2021 11:41 AM, H wrote:
> On 12/26/2021 09:15 AM, Joshua Ulrich wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 8:20 PM H <agents using meddatainc.com> wrote:
>>> Can anyone suggest a source for stock splits and dividend information on US listed stocks? I already have the quotes but in order to do fundamental analysis using historical information the two items above are required. I am looking to go back to ca 2010 (or earlier, if possible).
>>>
>> Tiingo [1] provides this information, and more, for free. All you need
>> is a free API key. The riingo package [2] implements a substantial
>> portion of the API.
>>
>> [1] https://api.tiingo.com/
>> [2] https://cran.r-project.org/package=riingo
>>
>>> I have looked into parsing XBRL information from the SEC (8-K filings as I understand it) but it does not seem promising for two reasons: (1) XBRL has a short history, shorter the smaller the company is; and (2) the quality of submissions and taxonomies used is not as good as one would like...
>>>
>>> Is CRISP or Compustat data available without a subscription?
>>>
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> Thank you, will check it out!
>
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I began testing the riingo package but whenever I try to call riingo_fundamentals_metrics() R tells me "could not find function..."

Is anyone successfully using the riingo_fundamentals_...() family of functions? Btw, I am running R 3.6.



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