SNP 500 Company List

An example of obtaining a list of companies that are in the SNP500. The companies are obtained from the wikipedia article.

This functionality is present in the companyList module. You can use the functionality as follows:

>>> import financeMacroFactors as fM
>>> companyList = fM.companies.getSNP500CompanyList()
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> len(companyList)
505
>>> pprint(companyList[:3])
[{'CIK': '0000066740',
  'Date first added': '1976-08-09',
  'Founded': '1902',
  'GICS Sector': 'Industrials',
  'GICS Sub Industry': 'Industrial Conglomerates',
  'Headquarters Location': 'St. Paul, Minnesota',
  'SEC filings': 'reports',
  'Security': '3M Company',
  'Symbol': 'MMM'},
 {'CIK': '0000001800',
  'Date first added': '1964-03-31',
  'Founded': '1888',
  'GICS Sector': 'Health Care',
  'GICS Sub Industry': 'Health Care Equipment',
  'Headquarters Location': 'North Chicago, Illinois',
  'SEC filings': 'reports',
  'Security': 'Abbott Laboratories',
  'Symbol': 'ABT'},
 {'CIK': '0001551152',
  'Date first added': '2012-12-31',
  'Founded': '2013 (1888)',
  'GICS Sector': 'Health Care',
  'GICS Sub Industry': 'Pharmaceuticals',
  'Headquarters Location': 'North Chicago, Illinois',
  'SEC filings': 'reports',
  'Security': 'AbbVie Inc.',
  'Symbol': 'ABBV'}]
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