.get_stock_outstanding

[ForgeFin]

Hey JECSand,
could you also write a function to retrieve the number of shares outstanding? - or am I missing that it already exists? -
No. of shares is necessary for me to link the statement data to the price data .. I already tried to work around with EPS but this seems error-prone.

Btw. thanks for the help in stackoverflow ;-)

[JECSand]

Hey there,

I just added a new function to the module called get_num_shares_outstanding() and released a new version of the module (v8.0). This new method calculates the current shares outstanding by dividing the current market cap by the current stock price. I was unable to find an easy way to calculate historical shares outstanding and I was unable to find a pre-calculated value directly from yahoo finance to use instead.

Another option with that method is to run it as get_num_shares_outstanding('average'), which will execute the method by dividing the current market cap by the daily average price instead. Just in-case that outputs a more accurate value for you.

Let me know how this works and thank you for using YahooFinancials again.

Also feel free to open another issue detailing any errors/bugs from the EPS method. I'd be happy to fix them.

Not a problem, always glad to help!