quantmod (version 0.3-1)

getFinancials: Download and View Financial Statements

Description

Download Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statements from Google Finance.

Usage

getFinancials(Symbol, env = .GlobalEnv, src = "google", 
              auto.assign = TRUE,
              ...)
viewFinancials(x, type=c('BS','IS','CF'), period=c('A','Q'),
               subset = NULL)

Arguments

Symbol

a valid google symbol

env

where to create the object

src

currently unused

auto.assign

should results be loaded to the environment

...

currently unused

x

an object of class financials

type

type of statement to view

period

period of statement to view

subset

xts style subset string

Value

• Six individual matricies organized in a list of class financials:
• IS
  a list containing (Q)uarterly and (A)nnual Income Statements
• BS
  a list containing (Q)uarterly and (A)nnual Balance Sheets
• CF
  a list containing (Q)uarterly and (A)nnual Cash Flow Statements

Details

A utility to download financial statements for publically traded companies. The data is directly from Google finance. All use of the data is under there Terms of Service, available at http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS.

Individual statements can be accessed using standard Rlist extraction tools, or by using viewFinancials.

viewFinancials allows for the use of date subsetting as available in the xts package, as well as the specification of the type of statement to view. BS for balance sheet, IS for income statement, and CF for cash flow statement. The period argument is used to identify which statements to view - (A) for annual and (Q) for quarterly.

References

Google Finance BETA: http://finance.google.com/finance

Examples

JAVA <- getFinancials('JAVA')
AAPL <- getFin('AAPL')

JAVA$IS$Q   # Quarterly Income Statement
AAPL$CF$A   # Annual Cash Flows

str(AAPL)