Get the quote of the specified tickers. These include important metrics such as the price, changes, day low, day high, year low, year high, market capitalization, volume, average volume, open, previous close, earnings per share (EPS), price to earnings ratio (PE), earnings announcement, shares outstanding and timestamp that give an overall understanding about the company.

Also known as: real-time price, current stock price, live quote.

Current Quotes in Python

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

pip install financetoolkit -U

Then call get_quote as shown below.

from financetoolkit import Toolkit

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

toolkit.get_quote()

Which returns:

  TSLA AAPL
Symbol TSLA AAPL
Name Tesla, Inc. Apple Inc.
Price 443.21 254.43
Change % 0.6380600000000001 -0.40319000000000005
Change 2.81 -1.03
Volume 78840639 39443231
Day Low 439.5 253.01
Day High 450.98 254.87
Year High 488.54 260.1
Year Low 212.11 169.21
Market Capitalization 1429511519286 3775840427700
Price Average 50 Days 354.2336 229.3156
Price Average 200 Days 334.7398 222.012
Exchange NASDAQ NASDAQ
Open 444.355 254.64
Previous Close 440.4 255.46
Timestamp 2025-09-29 20:00:00 2025-09-29 20:00:01
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