Returns industry price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios. Provide exactly one of date (a snapshot across all industries on that date) or industry (the historical time series for one industry).

Also known as: industry P/E snapshot, industry P/E history, industry valuation trend.

Industry P/E in Python

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

pip install financetoolkit -U

Then call get_industry_pe as shown below.

from financetoolkit import Discovery

discovery = Discovery(api_key="FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_KEY")

industry_pe = discovery.get_industry_pe(date="2024-02-01")

industry_pe.head()

industry_pe_history = discovery.get_industry_pe(industry="Biotechnology")

industry_pe_history.tail()

Which returns:

Industry Date Exchange PE Ratio
Advertising Agencies 2024-02-01 NASDAQ 71.0960
Aerospace & Defense 2024-02-01 NASDAQ 46.0186
Agricultural Farm Products 2024-02-01 NASDAQ 7.4529
Agricultural Inputs 2024-02-01 NASDAQ 58.9849
Agricultural - Machinery 2024-02-01 NASDAQ 10.3538

Parameters

get_industry_pe accepts the following parameters:

  • date (str, optional): The date to retrieve a snapshot for, e.g. “2024-02-01”.
  • industry (str, optional): The industry to retrieve the history for, e.g. “Biotechnology”.
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