Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to update financials after earnings are released?

Our main financial data provider (S&P Capital IQ) updates the financial data very quickly after the company has reported earnings and issued an earnings press release, usually within 1-3 hours.

Why do downloaded files have different data than what is displayed on the site?

Our main financial data provider, S&P Capital IQ, does not allow downloading of data. When you download something to Excel or CSV then the data will be coming from an alternative data provider (usually Nasdaq Data Link).

Although the downloaded data should be similar, there may be minor discrepancies compared to what is displayed on the site. In some cases, data points may be missing in the downloaded file if an alternative data provider does not have them.

Some more info about our financial sources here: Financial Sources.

Why is your data different than the data on another finance site?

Like other finance sites, we get our data from third-party data providers.

Because there are tens of thousands of stocks and funds in the world, it is impossible to gather all this data manually.

For this reason, data providers need to partly rely on automated methods to gather all the data.

Different data providers may use different definitions or collection methods, causing there to be differences in some data points between finance sites.

If you think we have an inaccuracy somewhere, please let us know at contact@stockanalysis.com.

I see an error in the data. What should I do?

Please send an email to contact@stockanalysis.com and we will look into this right away.

We look at every single error report and fix it manually and work with our data providers to ensure that the error is also fixed on their end.

Do you offer an API?

We don't offer API access at the moment. We license our data from third-party providers and we don't have licenses to redistribute the data in most cases.