How to get stock earnings data with Python
In this post, we'll walk through a few examples for getting stock earnings data with Python. We will be using yahoo_fin, which was recently updated. The latest version now includes functionality to easily pull earnings calendar information for individual stocks or dates. If you need to install yahoo_fin, you can use pip: [code] pip install yahoo_fin [/code] If you already have it installed and need to upgrade, you can update your version like this: [code] pip install yahoo_fin --upgrade [/code] To get started, let's import yahoo_fin: [code lang="python"] import yahoo_fin.stock_info as si [/code] Getting stock earnings calendar data The first method we'll cover is the get_earnings_history function. get_earnings_history returns a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary contains an earnings date along with EPS actual / expected information. Let's test it out…
