get_statistics: Get Key Statistics

In pverspeelt/Quantfunctions: Contains a diverse set of functions and indicators to add functionality to Quantmod, TTR and Quantstrat

Description

This function get the information from the key statistics page from yahoo finance. For individual statistics or statistics to calculate with, it is better to use 'quantmod::getQuote' together with 'quantmod::yahooQF'.

Usage

get_statistics(symbol)

Arguments

symbol

a stock symbol

Value

Returns a data.frame containing the key statistics from the statistics page from Yahoo Finance. Available fields are symbol, statistic_group, statistic and value. All values are character values are only as good as the data on Yahoo.

Examples

## Not run: 
library(dplyr)
# returns the statistics for AAPL
aapl_stats <- get_statistics("AAPL")

# get all the profitability stats
aapl_stat %>% 
  filter(statistic_group == "Profitability")
 
# returns the statistics for AAPL and FB
symbols <- c("AAPL", "FB")
symbol_stats <- get_statistics(symbols)

symbol_stats %>% 
  filter(statistic == "Forward Annual Dividend Rate")

## End(Not run)

pverspeelt/Quantfunctions documentation built on Oct. 10, 2021, 1:01 p.m.