On 04/02/2021 09:21 AM, Andre Mikulec wrote: > H, > > The software product AAII Stock Investor Pro has this information. > > If one really wants the raw data (and not use the GUI), then one can get this > information directly from the .dbf files on disk. These .dbf (Foxpro) files > can be opened and read-in using Libre Office Calc. 16 GBs of RAM, in my case, > seems to be needed, to read the big .dbf files. This memory requirement > seems to be a challenge of Libre Office. > > Alternately, and simply, the .dbf file data can be read in through the base R > package foreign​, function read.dbf,​ into R data.frames, with only a small > amount of computer memory. > > The .dbf file reading code is by Frank Warmerdam in both cases: Calc and > read.dbf. > > The software, product AAII Stock Investor Pro is updated daily. In the past, > it was updated from weekly then from monthly. It requires a yearly > subscription. The product is much much much less expensive than Compustat > (but does not have as much), but may have just-as-much, as you need. > > ________________________________ > From: R-SIG-Finance <r-sig-finance-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Andrew > Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> > Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 5:14 AM > To: r-sig-finance@r-project.org <r-sig-finance@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Retrieving corporate event information for > listed companies > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:46:35PM -0400, H wrote: >> I would appreciate thoughts on a question pertaining to corporate event >> information: >> >> What would be the "best" source for automating retrieval of eg dividends, >> ex-dividend dates, earning dates going forward etc.? > For company fundamental data, in years past I used the S&P Compustat > XpressFeed product, and was pretty happy with it. It had all filings, > plus daily prices and other ancillary data, arranged in a sane SQL > schema, loadable into either Oracle or MS SQL Server (using their > Windows C# XpressFeed Loader app, later converted to Java). It was > expensive, but if you're willing to pay, it's likely still a good > choice today. > > Since we had Compustat, I never tried parsing data myself from Edgar > or wherever else. But of course if all you really want are dates of > earnings announcements and dividends, it wouldn't make sense to pay > for a full-featured product Compustat. > > -- > Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go.
Thank you, will keep that product in mind. My first choice would be to see if it is in EDGAR though. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
