Mastering Python for Financial Data Analysis: A Guide to Retrieving Stock Earnings Data

If you want to learn how to retrieve stock earnings data using Python, then this is the guide for you!

In this article, we’ll go over a few examples of collecting stock earnings data . We’ll be using the most recent version of yahoo_fin. The most recent version now offers the ability to quickly get earnings calendar data for certain stocks or dates.

If you need to install yahoo_fin, you can use pip:

Install yahoo_fin

pip install yahoo_fin

If you already have it installed and need to upgrade, you can update your version like this:

pip install yahoo_fin --upgrade

To get started, let’s import yahoo_fin:

import yahoo_fin.stock_info as si

Getting stock earnings calendar data

The first method we’ll cover is the get_earnings_history function. get_earnings_history returns a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary contains an earnings date along with EPS actual/expected information. Let’s test it out with a few sample tickers.