Installation of Yahoo Finance Module in Python
Let us install them via pip commands
pip install yfinance
Once it is installed, we can import yfinance package in Python code. We need to pass as an argument of Ticker i.e. the company’s ticker.
Note: A stock symbol or a ticker is a unique series of letters assigned to a security for trading purposes. For example:
- For Amazon, it is “AMZN”
- For Meta, it is “META”
- For Google, it is “GOOGL”
Get Financial Data from Yahoo Finance with Python
This article will show how to get financial data from Yahoo Finance using Python. We can retrieve company financial information (e.g. financial ratios), as well as historical market data by using this.