About Business Metrics (Group)

This endpoint contains annual and quarterly Business Metrics for one of eleven groups of companies. Each company contains both asset-specific (iPhone Sales for AAPL) and sector-specific (Revenue per Passenger for Airline companies) information. Users have the option to view the data aggregated both by year and by quarter.

About our grouping

Companies are grouped according to common characteristics or shared Business Metrics by which they can be compared. This endpoint can be useful for comparing companies to others, for example on a chart or other visual, who share the same Business Metrics.

Request

• Group: This request takes in a group as an input parameter. Users have the option to view data from the following Business Metrics groups:
  • adSocialMedia: Advertising and Social Media
  • airlines
  • banks
  • consumerInternet: Consumer Internet
  • ecommerce
  • hotels
  • onlineTravel: Online Travel Agencies
  • payments
  • restaurants
  • software: SAAS
  • other: Other Large Caps

Response

The endpoint returns a list of objects - each object pertaining to a specific company. For each individual company, results are organized in two objects:

• asset: Contains asset metadata for a given ticker
• data: Contains Annual and Quarterly data for a given ticker, structured as two arrays:
  • annual: contains a list of objects, each object pertaining to a specific fy (fiscal year). Each item in this list contains an array of metrics containing the Business Metrics data corresponding to a specific fiscal year.
  • quarterly: contains a list of objects, each object pertaining to a specific fy (fiscal year) and fq (fiscal quarter) combination. Each item in this list contains an array of metrics containing the Business Metrics data corresponding to a specific fiscal year.