The Stock Statistics Parser

Douglas A. Lyon

doi:10.5381/jot.2008.7.6.c2

The Stock Statistics Parser

Douglas A. Lyon

Fairfield University

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Abstract

The focus is on making use of the web to get information about companies, using their stock symbols and YAHOO finance. We show how to map a stock ticker symbol into a company name gather statistics and derive new information. Our example shows how we extract the number of shares outstanding, total volume over a given time period and compute the turnover for the shares.

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Object Technology
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5381/jot.2008.7.6.c2
State	Published - Jul 1 2008

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Computer Engineering
Engineering

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