Get U.S. Stock Symbols

getStockSymbols obtains symbols in U.S. stock markets or symbols of U.S. index components.

Description

getStockSymbols obtains symbols in U.S. stock markets or symbols of U.S. index components. The function also outputs the company name, sector type, market cap, p/e, last price, last price percent change and volume in the second output parameter in the form of structs. These data are pulled from http://finviz.com.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; Get Stock Information from Yahoo
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)

[Dan]

Good job!!
Great financial Web site. Do they have fundamental info to be retrieved (e.g. sales, net income, etc.) from their quarterly reports?

[Ted P Teng]

Thank you Dan, you can head to the website's screener feature to see what they have to offer. Click on help (top right corner of website) for the calculation of each parameter.