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Company Stock Splits

The Company Stock Splits Endpoint is used to return a list of stock split objects that within the date range specified by the optional start and end date parameters.

Request Info

Request Method	GET
URL	https://api.ycharts.com/v3/companies/symbol[s]/splits?start_date=start_date&end_date=end_date

Request Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
symbol[s]	Y	The exchange symbol for a company, or a comma separated list of exchange symbols.
start_date	N	The first split date of the desired date range.
end_date	N	The last split date of the desired data range.

Note

• There is a maximum of 100 symbols per request.

Response Info

The response will contain one or more company objects. The key for each company object is the exchange symbol passed in the request.

Company Object Fields

Field	Type	Description
meta	Meta	This object contains information about the query for the company object
results	Results	This object contains one or more stock split objects.

Stock Split Object Fields

Field	Type	Description
is_stock_dividend	bool	Is Stock Dividend
day	date	Day
ratio	decimal	Ratio
status	string	Status

Examples

The following is an example successful request for 1 company.

Request URL

https://api.ycharts.com/v3/companies/AAPL/splits?start_date=2004-10-10&end_date=2015-01-12

Response

{
    "meta": {
        "status": "ok",
        "url": "https://api.ycharts.com/v3/companies/AAPL/splits?start_date=2004-10-10&end_date=2015-01-12"
    },
    "response": {
        "AAPL": {
            "meta": {
                "status": "ok"
            },
            "results": [
                {
                    "day": "2005-02-28",
                    "is_stock_dividend": false,
                    "ratio": 2.0,
                    "status": "executed"
                },
                {
                    "day": "2014-06-09",
                    "is_stock_dividend": false,
                    "ratio": 7.0,
                    "status": "executed"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

The following is an example successful request for multiple companies.

Request URL

https://api.ycharts.com/v3/companies/AAPL,DDR/splits?start_date=2004-10-10&end_date=2015-01-12

Response

{
    "meta": {
        "status": "ok",
        "url": "https://api.ycharts.com/v3/companies/AAPL,DDR/splits?start_date=2004-10-10&end_date=2015-01-12"
    },
    "response": {
        "AAPL": {
            "meta": {
                "status": "ok"
            },
            "results": [
                {
                    "day": "2005-02-28",
                    "is_stock_dividend": false,
                    "ratio": 2.0,
                    "status": "executed"
                },
                {
                    "day": "2014-06-09",
                    "is_stock_dividend": false,
                    "ratio": 7.0,
                    "status": "executed"
                }
            ]
        },
        "DDR": {
            "meta": {
                "status": "ok"
            },
            "results": [
                {
                    "day": "2009-03-10",
                    "is_stock_dividend": true,
                    "ratio": 1.06656,
                    "status": "executed"
                },
                {
                    "day": "2009-06-09",
                    "is_stock_dividend": true,
                    "ratio": 1.04016,
                    "status": "executed"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

The following is an example incorrect request with an invalid date parameter.

Request URL

https://api.ycharts.com/v3/companies/AAPL/splits?start_date=-2015-01-01&end_date=bad-date

Response

{
    "meta": {
        "error_code": 400,
        "error_message": "Invalid end_date format.",
        "status": "error",
        "url": "https://api.ycharts.com/v3/companies/AAPL/splits?start_date=-2015-01-01&end_date=bad-date"
    },
    "response": {}
}