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Yahoo Finance market data downloader. Stock prices, options chains, fundamentals, dividends, splits, earnings, institutional holders, and financial statements. Quick data ingestion for quant research and backtesting.

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Overview

yfinance downloads Yahoo Finance market data: stock prices, options chains, fundamentals, dividends, splits, earnings, institutional holders, and financial statements. The fastest path from ticker symbol to pandas DataFrame for quant research and backtesting.

Installation

uv pip install yfinance

Price History

import yfinance as yf

msft = yf.download("MSFT", start="2024-01-01", end="2024-12-31")
print(msft.head())

Fundamentals & Financials

ticker = yf.Ticker("AAPL")
info = ticker.info
print(f"Market cap: {info['marketCap']:,}")
print(f"PE ratio: {info['trailingPE']}")
print(f"Dividend yield: {info.get('dividendYield', 0)*100:.2f}%")
print(ticker.balance_sheet)
print(ticker.financials)

Options

opt = ticker.option_chain(ticker.options[0])
print(opt.calls[["strike", "lastPrice", "impliedVolatility", "volume"]].head())
print(opt.puts[["strike", "lastPrice", "impliedVolatility", "volume"]].head())

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