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Michael Moghaddam

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Financials API Glossary of Fields

Financials API Glossary of Fields

An individual financial report can have data points specialized for a certain industry, or even a specific company. To make the data more user-friendly and comparable across reports, we parse the XBRL and map tags to the generalized financial concepts that we return in our API.

  • Michael Moghaddam
3 min read
What’s in a Market Cap?
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What’s in a Market Cap?

How do you calculate market cap? The formula to calculate market cap is share price x weighted shares outstanding, where weighted shares outstanding represents the equivalent number of shares of a particular share class that equates to the whole company.

  • Michael Moghaddam
11 min read