I Used This Stock and Company Identification API - Full Company Deets

If you want company information / company details data on your website, chances are you’ll have 2 choices: either scrape it from other websites or depend on the magic of external data. In my case, I was glad to find this stock and company identification API as it probs halved the time I was gonna spend implementing company data. Paying a little instead of doing major extra work makes more sense, IMO. Here’s my review of the API for anyone in the same situation 🎉

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General Info About the Company Information API

This is the company information API by Finnworlds. You can find reviews for their other products on my blog. I like it that you can access multiple endpoints with a single API key. No access limits. So I went ahead and integrated a whole bunch of them to give it a go. This stock and company identification API being one of them, I used it to display company details on my mock-up website, and it worked!

Instead of explaining the data points in it one by one, here’s an example company details API output which is pretty self-explanatory :)

https://api.finnworlds.com/api/v1/information?key=APIKEY&ticker=BYND

{
    "status": {
        "code": 200,
        "message": "OK",
        "details": ""
    },
    "result": {
        "basics": {
            "company": "BEYOND MEAT, INC.",
            "ticker": "BYND",
            "isin": "US08862E1091",
            "sector": "Consumer Defensive",
            "industry": "Packaged Foods"
        },
        "output": {
            "name": "BEYOND MEAT, INC.",
            "ticker": "BYND",
            "cik": "1655210",
            "isin": "US08862E1091",
            "cusip": "08862E109",
            "ein_employer_id": "264087597",
            "lei": "549300XQ946NCE51DR09",
            "series_id": "",
            "item_type": "equity",
            "sector": "Consumer Defensive",
            "industry": "Packaged Foods",
            "sic_code": "2000",
            "sic_name": "Food and Kindred Products",
            "exchange_code": "NMS",
            "exchanges": [
                {
                    "exchange_name": "Investors Exchange",
                    "acronym1": "IEX",
                    "exchange_mic": "IEXG",
                    "country": "USA",
                    "alpha2_code": "US",
                    "city": "New York",
                    "website": "www.iextrading.com"
                },
                {
                    "exchange_name": "NASDAQ Stock Exchange",
                    "acronym1": "NASDAQ",
                    "exchange_mic": "XNAS",
                    "country": "USA",
                    "alpha2_code": "US",
                    "city": "New York",
                    "website": "www.nasdaq.com"
                }
            ],
            "full_time_employees": "787",
            "ipo_date": "",
            "date_founded": "",
            "key_executives": [
                {
                    "name": "Mr. Akerho  Oghoghomeh",
                    "function": "Senior Vice President of Global Marketing",
                    "salary": "",
                    "exercised": "",
                    "birth_year": ""
                },
                {
                    "name": "Mr. Henry  Dieu",
                    "function": "VP of Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer",
                    "salary": "",
                    "exercised": "",
                    "birth_year": "1985"
                },
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                {
                    "name": "Mr. Mark J. Nelson",
                    "function": "Consultant",
                    "salary": "530.22k",
                    "exercised": "",
                    "birth_year": "1969"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Mr. Ethan  Brown",
                    "function": "Founder, Pres, CEO & Director",
                    "salary": "684.35k",
                    "exercised": "",
                    "birth_year": "1972"
                }
            ],
            "incorporation": "DE",
            "incorporation_description": "DE",
            "start_fiscal": "",
            "end_fiscal": "1231",
            "reporting_currency": "",
            "address": {
                "street1": "888 N. DOUGLAS STREET, SUITE 100",
                "street2": "",
                "city": "EL SEGUNDO",
                "stateOrCountry": "CA",
                "postal_code": "90245",
                "state_or_country_description": "CA"
            },
            "post_address": {
                "street1": "888 N. DOUGLAS STREET, SUITE 100",
                "street2": "",
                "city": "EL SEGUNDO",
                "stateOrCountry": "CA",
                "postal_code": "90245",
                "state_or_country_description": "CA"
            },
            "phone": "866-756-4112",
            "website": "https://www.beyondmeat.com",
            "previous_names": [
                {
                    "name": "Savage River, Inc.",
                    "from": "2015-10-15"
                }
            ],
            "about": "Beyond Meat, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, and sells plant-based meat products in the United States and internationally. The company sells a range of plant-based meat products across the platforms of beef, pork, and poultry. It sells its products through grocery, mass merchandiser, club, convenience, and natural retailer channels, as well as various food-away-from-home channels, including restaurants, foodservice outlets, and schools. The company was formerly known as Savage River, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond Meat, Inc. in September 2018. Beyond Meat, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.",
            "mission": "",
            "vision": ""
        }
    }
}

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Pros and Cons of the Stock and Company Identification API

Pros: 1️⃣ Versatile details. All company detail data I was looking for was there. Of course, this depends on individual projects.

2️⃣ This company information database seems to be somewhat global, too. I tested it for European stocks which worked well. Not entirely sure about the Indian and SE Asia as a few test requests came back empty but might be better to check with Finnworlds.

Cons: 1️⃣ Noticed some null values in the output from time to time. I like consistency, so I would prefer to have the IPO and founding date for all items.

Note: In case you do not need a whole lot of details like in the above stock and company identification data output, they also have a “lite” version of it (notice the different endpoint when testing)👇🏼

https://api.finnworlds.com/api/v1/identifiers?key=APIKEy&ticker=BYND

{
    "status": {
        "code": 200,
        "message": "OK",
        "details": ""
    },
    "result": {
        "basics": {
            "company": "BEYOND MEAT, INC.",
            "ticker": "BYND",
            "isin": "US08862E1091"
        },
        "output": {
            "name": "BEYOND MEAT, INC.",
            "ticker": "BYND",
            "cik": "1655210",
            "isin": "US08862E1091",
            "cusip": "08862E109",
            "ein_employer_id": "264087597",
            "lei": "549300XQ946NCE51DR09",
            "series_id": "",
            "item_type": "equity",
            "sector": "Consumer Defensive",
            "industry": "Packaged Foods",
            "sic_code": "2000",
            "sic_name": "Food and Kindred Products",
            "previous_names": [
                {
                    "name": "Savage River, Inc.",
                    "from": "2015-10-15"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

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Should You Buy This Company Information API?

The short answer is "IMO, yes" if you are looking for this type of data, this company information API is probably a good choice without having to spend more time looking for a better one (see the prices here). It has good company details that investors would want to see on an app or a website, such as all tickers and codes used in registration as identifiers, industry, sector, exchanges it is listed on, employee number, important dates, key executives, incorporation details, address, contact info and more.

If it is a "magical" all-in-one directory for all known and active companies worldwide, this company information API might fall short a bit but then again, if you ever find that especially at this price, send me a DM :)