Obtain the profile of the specified tickers. These include important metrics such as the beta, market capitalization, currency, isin, industry, and ipo date that give an overall understanding about the company.

Also known as: company description, sector, industry, CEO, employee count.

Company Profiles in Python

get_profile is part of the Toolkit module of the open-source Finance Toolkit. Install it with:

pip install financetoolkit -U

Then call get_profile as shown below.

from financetoolkit import Toolkit

toolkit = Toolkit(["MSFT", "AAPL"], api_key="FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_KEY")

toolkit.get_profile()

Which returns:

  MSFT AAPL
Symbol MSFT AAPL
Price 316.48 174.49
Beta 0.903706 1.286802
Average Volume 28153120 57348456
Market Capitalization 2353183809372 2744500935588
Last Dividend 2.7199999999999998 0.96
Range 213.43-366.78 124.17-198.23
Changes -0.4 0.49
Company Name Microsoft Corporation Apple Inc.
Currency USD USD
CIK 789019 320193
ISIN US5949181045 US0378331005
CUSIP 594918104 37833100
Exchange NASDAQ Global Select NASDAQ Global Select
Exchange Short Name NASDAQ NASDAQ
Industry Software—Infrastructure Consumer Electronics
Website https://www.microsoft.com https://www.apple.com
CEO Mr. Satya Nadella Mr. Timothy D. Cook
Sector Technology Technology
Country US US
Full Time Employees 221000 164000
Phone 425 882 8080 408 996 1010
Address One Microsoft Way One Apple Park Way
City Redmond Cupertino
State WA CA
ZIP Code 98052-6399 95014
DCF Difference 4.56584 4.15176
DCF 243.594 150.082
IPO Date 1986-03-13 1980-12-12
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