Stock Market Price Series

This module’s main class is Stock. It defines the following methods:

market_value()

Return the current market value of this stock.

current_price_data()

Get Yahoo current price data for this stock.

history()

Return an immutable sequence of historical price data for this stock

open()

Return a time series containing historical opening prices for this stock.

close()

Return the time series of all historical closing prices for this stock.

load_from_file()

Load historical data from a local csv formatted data file.

Warning

The \(Stock\) class is currently broken due to the change in the Yahoo interface. See trac ticket #25473.

AUTHORS:

  • William Stein, 2008

  • Brett Nakayama, 2008

  • Chris Swierczewski, 2008

Classes and methods

class sage.finance.stock.OHLC(timestamp, open, high, low, close, volume)

Bases: object

Open, high, low, and close information for a stock. Also stores a timestamp for that data along with the volume.

INPUT:

  • timestamp – string

  • open, high, low, close – float

  • volume – int

EXAMPLES:

sage: from sage.finance.stock import OHLC
sage: OHLC('18-Aug-04', 100.01, 104.06, 95.96, 100.34, 22353092)
 18-Aug-04 100.01 104.06 95.96 100.34   22353092
class sage.finance.stock.Stock(symbol, cid='')

Bases: object

Class for retrieval of stock market information.

close(*args, **kwds)

Return the time series of all historical closing prices for this stock. If no arguments are given, will return last acquired historical data. Otherwise, data will be gotten from Google Finance.

INPUT:

  • startdate – string, (default: 'Jan+1,+1900')

  • enddate – string, (default: current date)

  • histperiod – string, ('daily' or 'weekly')

OUTPUT:

A time series – close price data.

EXAMPLES:

You can directly obtain close data as so:

sage: finance.Stock('vmw').close(startdate='Jan+1,+2008', enddate='Feb+1,+2008')                 # optional -- internet # known bug
[84.6000, 83.9500, 80.4900, 72.9900, ... 83.0000, 54.8700, 56.4200, 56.6700, 57.8500]

Or, you can initialize stock data first and then extract the Close data:

sage: c = finance.Stock('vmw')  # optional -- internet # known bug
sage: c.history(startdate='Feb+1,+2008', enddate='Mar+1,+2008')[:5]    # optional -- internet # known bug
[
  1-Feb-08 56.98 58.14 55.06 57.85    2490481,
  4-Feb-08 58.00 60.47 56.91 58.05    1840709,
  5-Feb-08 57.60 59.30 57.17 59.30    1712179,
  6-Feb-08 60.32 62.00 59.50 61.52    2211775,
  7-Feb-08 60.50 62.75 59.56 60.80    1521651
]
sage: c.close()    # optional -- internet # known bug
[57.8500, 58.0500, 59.3000, 61.5200, ... 58.2900, 60.1800, 59.8600, 59.9500, 58.6700]

Otherwise, history() will be called with the default arguments returning a year’s worth of data:

sage: finance.Stock('vmw').close()   # random; optional -- internet # known bug
[57.7100, 56.9900, 55.5500, 57.3300, 65.9900 ... 84.9900, 84.6000, 83.9500, 80.4900, 72.9900]
current_price_data()

Get Yahoo current price data for this stock.

This method returns a dictionary with the following keys:

'price'

'change'

'volume'

'avg_daily_volume'

'stock_exchange'

'market_cap'

'book_value'

'ebitda'

'dividend_per_share'

'dividend_yield'

'earnings_per_share'

'52_week_high'

'52_week_low'

'50day_moving_avg'

'200day_moving_avg'

'price_earnings_ratio'

'price_earnings_growth_ratio'

'price_sales_ratio'

'price_book_ratio'

'short_ratio'.

EXAMPLES:

sage: finance.Stock('GOOG').current_price_data()  #  random; optional - internet # known bug
{'200day_moving_avg': '536.57',
 '50day_moving_avg': '546.01',
 '52_week_high': '599.65',
 '52_week_low': '487.56',
 'avg_daily_volume': '1826450',
 'book_value': '153.64',
 'change': '+0.56',
 'dividend_per_share': 'N/A',
 'dividend_yield': 'N/A',
 'earnings_per_share': '20.99',
 'ebitda': '21.48B',
 'market_cap': '366.11B',
 'price': '537.90',
 'price_book_ratio': '3.50',
 'price_earnings_growth_ratio': '0.00',
 'price_earnings_ratio': '25.62',
 'price_sales_ratio': '5.54',
 'short_ratio': '1.50',
 'stock_exchange': '"NMS"',
 'volume': '1768181'}
history(startdate='Jan+1,+1900', enddate=None, histperiod='daily')

Return an immutable sequence of historical price data for this stock, obtained from Google. OHLC data is stored internally as well. By default, returns the past year’s daily OHLC data.

Dates startdate and enddate should be formatted 'Mon+d,+yyyy', where 'Mon' is a three character abbreviation of the month’s name.

Note

Google Finance returns the past year’s financial data by default when startdate is set too low from the equity’s date of going public. By default, this function only looks at the NASDAQ and NYSE markets. However, if you specified the market during initialization of the stock (i.e. finance.Stock("OTC:NTDOY")), this method will give correct results.

INPUT:

  • startdate – string, (default: 'Jan+1,+1900')

  • enddate – string, (default: current date)

  • histperiod – string, ('daily' or 'weekly')

OUTPUT:

A sequence.

EXAMPLES:

We get the first five days of VMware’s stock history:

sage: finance.Stock('vmw').history('Aug+13,+2007')[:5] # optional -- internet # known bug
[
 14-Aug-07 50.00 55.50 48.00 51.00   38262850,
 15-Aug-07 52.11 59.87 51.50 57.71   10689100,
 16-Aug-07 60.99 61.49 52.71 56.99    6919500,
 17-Aug-07 59.00 59.00 54.45 55.55    3087000,
 20-Aug-07 56.05 57.50 55.61 57.33    2141900
]
sage: finance.Stock('F').history('Aug+20,+1992', 'Jul+7,+2008')[:5] # optional -- internet # known bug
[
 20-Aug-92 0.00 7.90 7.73 7.83    5492698,
 21-Aug-92 0.00 7.92 7.66 7.68    5345999,
 24-Aug-92 0.00 7.59 7.33 7.35   11056299,
 25-Aug-92 0.00 7.66 7.38 7.61    8875299,
 26-Aug-92 0.00 7.73 7.64 7.68    6447201
]

Note that when startdate is too far prior to a stock’s actual start date, Google Finance defaults to a year’s worth of stock history leading up to the specified end date. For example, Apple’s (AAPL) stock history only dates back to September 7, 1984:

sage: finance.Stock('AAPL').history('Sep+1,+1900', 'Jan+1,+2000')[0:5] # optional -- internet # known bug
[
  4-Jan-99 0.00 1.51 1.43 1.47  238221200,
  5-Jan-99 0.00 1.57 1.48 1.55  352522800,
  6-Jan-99 0.00 1.58 1.46 1.49  337125600,
  7-Jan-99 0.00 1.61 1.50 1.61  357254800,
  8-Jan-99 0.00 1.67 1.57 1.61  169680000
]

Here is an example where we create and get the history of a stock that is not in NASDAQ or NYSE:

sage: finance.Stock("OTC:NTDOY").history(startdate="Jan+1,+2007", enddate="Jan+1,+2008")[:5]  # optional -- internet # known bug
[
  3-Jan-07 32.44 32.75 32.30 32.44     156283,
  4-Jan-07 31.70 32.40 31.20 31.70     222643,
  5-Jan-07 30.15 30.50 30.15 30.15      65670,
  8-Jan-07 30.10 30.50 30.00 30.10     130765,
  9-Jan-07 29.90 30.05 29.60 29.90     103338
]

Here, we create a stock by cid, and get historical data. Note that when using historical, if a cid is specified, it will take precedence over the stock’s symbol. So, if the symbol and cid do not match, the history based on the contract id will be returned.

sage: sage.finance.stock.Stock("AAPL", 22144).history(startdate='Jan+1,+1990')[:5] #optional -- internet # known bug
[
  8-Jun-99 0.00 1.74 1.70 1.70   78414000,
  9-Jun-99 0.00 1.73 1.69 1.73   88446400,
 10-Jun-99 0.00 1.72 1.69 1.72   79262400,
 11-Jun-99 0.00 1.73 1.65 1.66   46261600,
 14-Jun-99 0.00 1.67 1.61 1.62   39270000
]
load_from_file(file)

Load historical data from a local csv formatted data file. Note that no symbol data is included in Google Finance’s csv data. The csv file must be formatted in the following way, just as on Google Finance:

Timestamp,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume

INPUT:

  • file – local file with Google Finance formatted OHLC data.

OUTPUT:

A sequence – OHLC data.

EXAMPLES:

Suppose you have a file in your home directory containing Apple stock OHLC data, such as that from Google Finance, called AAPL-minutely.csv. One can load this information into a Stock object like so. Note that the path must be explicit:

sage: filename = tmp_filename(ext='.csv')
sage: with open(filename, 'w') as fobj:
....:     _ = fobj.write("Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume\n1212405780,187.80,187.80,187.80,187.80,100\n1212407640,187.75,188.00,187.75,188.00,2000\n1212407700,188.00,188.00,188.00,188.00,1000\n1212408000,188.00,188.11,188.00,188.00,2877\n1212408060,188.00,188.00,188.00,188.00,687")
sage: finance.Stock('aapl').load_from_file(filename)[:5]
[
1212408060 188.00 188.00 188.00 188.00        687,
1212408000 188.00 188.11 188.00 188.00       2877,
1212407700 188.00 188.00 188.00 188.00       1000,
1212407640 187.75 188.00 187.75 188.00       2000,
1212405780 187.80 187.80 187.80 187.80        100
]

Note that since the source file doesn’t contain information on which equity the information comes from, the symbol designated at initialization of Stock need not match the source of the data. For example, we can initialize a Stock object with the symbol 'goog', but load data from 'aapl' stock prices:

sage: finance.Stock('goog').load_from_file(filename)[:5]
[
1212408060 188.00 188.00 188.00 188.00        687,
1212408000 188.00 188.11 188.00 188.00       2877,
1212407700 188.00 188.00 188.00 188.00       1000,
1212407640 187.75 188.00 187.75 188.00       2000,
1212405780 187.80 187.80 187.80 187.80        100
]
market_value()

Return the current market value of this stock.

OUTPUT:

A Python float.

EXAMPLES:

sage: finance.Stock('goog').market_value()   # random; optional - internet # known bug
575.83000000000004
open(*args, **kwds)

Return a time series containing historical opening prices for this stock. If no arguments are given, will return last acquired historical data. Otherwise, data will be gotten from Google Finance.

INPUT:

  • startdate – string, (default: 'Jan+1,+1900')

  • enddate – string, (default: current date)

  • histperiod – string, ('daily' or 'weekly')

OUTPUT:

A time series – close price data.

EXAMPLES:

You can directly obtain Open data as so:

sage: finance.Stock('vmw').open(startdate='Jan+1,+2008', enddate='Feb+1,+2008')                 # optional -- internet # known bug
[85.4900, 84.9000, 82.0000, 81.2500, ... 82.0000, 58.2700, 54.4900, 55.6000, 56.9800]

Or, you can initialize stock data first and then extract the Open data:

sage: c = finance.Stock('vmw') # optional -- internet # known bug
sage: c.history(startdate='Feb+1,+2008', enddate='Mar+1,+2008')[:5]    # optional -- internet # known bug
[
  1-Feb-08 56.98 58.14 55.06 57.85    2490481,
  4-Feb-08 58.00 60.47 56.91 58.05    1840709,
  5-Feb-08 57.60 59.30 57.17 59.30    1712179,
  6-Feb-08 60.32 62.00 59.50 61.52    2211775,
  7-Feb-08 60.50 62.75 59.56 60.80    1521651
]
sage: c.open()    # optional -- internet # known bug
[56.9800, 58.0000, 57.6000, 60.3200, ... 56.5500, 59.3000, 60.0000, 59.7900, 59.2600]

Otherwise, history() will be called with the default arguments returning a year’s worth of data:

sage: finance.Stock('vmw').open()   # random; optional -- internet # known bug
[52.1100, 60.9900, 59.0000, 56.0500, 57.2500, ... 83.0500, 85.4900, 84.9000, 82.0000, 81.2500]