sample_secref: Sample security reference data for examples and testing

Description Usage Format

Description

A dataset containing sample reference data for the securities of 492 large companies. All securities in the dataset were in the S&P 500 for most or all of the period June-August 2020.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 492 rows and 4 variables:

id

Unique security identifier (the security's ticker).

name

Company name.

symbol

Human-readable symbol for display and reporting purposes. In the case of this dataset it is the same as the id variable.

sector

GICS sector for the company according to the Wikipedia page List of S&P 500 companies.


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