Access key details on securities with Massive. This category provides information on asset classifications, company fundamentals, identifiers, and metadata essential for informed trading.
Knowledge Base/Reference Data
Knowledge Base
Reference Data
- Title
- Does Massive adjust historic dividends for splits?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- It returns both. cash_amount is the amount actually paid per share on the day, and split_adjusted_cash_amount is the same payment restated on today's share basis. Pick the one that matches the question you are asking.
- Title
- Does Massive have a market holiday or status page?
- Data Coverage Category
Data Coverage
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- Yes, as two API endpoints rather than a web page. /v1/marketstatus/now returns whether each exchange is open, in pre-market or after-hours, and /v1/marketstatus/upcoming returns the coming holidays with their early-close times.
- Title
- Does Massive offer any technical indicators?
- Data Coverage Category
Data Coverage
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- Yes, four calculated for you: simple and exponential moving averages, RSI and MACD, on their own endpoints and included with every plan including the free tier. Anything else you build from the aggregate bars.
- Title
- Does Massive provide the filing date for any financial reports?
- Data Coverage Category
Data Coverage
- Financials Category
Financials
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- Yes. Every record on the financials endpoints carries a filing_date, including the trailing-twelve-month ones, where it is the date of the most recent filing that fed the period rather than the date the period was first reported.
- Title
- Does Massive support normal and reverse splits?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- Yes, both, on the same endpoint and in the same shape. Each record carries split_from, split_to and an adjustment_type of forward_split, reverse_split or stock_dividend.
- Title
- How does Massive handle ticker changes and acquisitions?
- FAQ Category
FAQ
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- The data stays as it was published, so a renamed company has history under both symbols and Massive does not stitch them together. Pass a date to the ticker endpoints to ask who held a symbol then, and use the ticker events endpoint to find the rename.
- Title
- How much historical data does Massive have for financial 10-K and 10-Q reports?
- Financials Category
Financials
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- The oldest record in the dataset is from April 2009, but the floor for any one company is later and depends on when its filings became available in the format we parse, so ask the endpoint for that ticker rather than assuming a universal start date.
- Title
- What do Massive's stock trade condition codes mean?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- Every stock trade carries a conditions array of numeric codes describing how it was executed, and those codes decide whether it updated a bar's open, close, high, low or volume. This is the reference table for the codes you will meet in practice.
- Title
- What are the different types of dividends that Massive supports?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- Dividend records carry a distribution_type of recurring, special, supplemental, irregular or unknown. Nearly everything is recurring, and the separate frequency field tells you how many payments a year to expect.
- Title
- What does Massive do with delisted tickers?
- FAQ Category
FAQ
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- They stay. Delisted companies keep their history exactly as it was published, so a backtest sees the companies that failed as well as the ones that survived. Their ticker records are marked inactive rather than removed.
- Title
- What does Massive use for sector classification?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- SIC codes, from the company's own SEC filings. Ticker details returns sic_code and sic_description, so Apple is 3571, Electronic Computers. There is no GICS sector field.
- Title
- What fields can I expect from Massive's financials API?
- Data Coverage Category
Data Coverage
- Financials Category
Financials
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- A fixed, flat set per endpoint. Income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements and ratios each have their own endpoint and their own named columns, every record carrying period_end, filing_date, fiscal_quarter, fiscal_year and timeframe.
- Title
- What is market cap and how does Massive calculate that value?
- FAQ Category
FAQ
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- Market cap is the weighted share count multiplied by the latest price. Ticker details returns both, so you can check it: AAPL's market cap divided by its weighted shares outstanding is its closing price.
- Title
- What is Massive's reference data?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- Everything that describes the market rather than prices it: tickers and their details, exchanges, market status and holidays, condition codes, and corporate actions such as splits and dividends. It is included with every plan, including the free tier.
- Title
- What is the difference between weighted shares outstanding and share class shares outstanding?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- Weighted shares outstanding counts the whole company expressed in one share class's units; share class shares outstanding counts only the shares in that class. For a single-class company they are identical, and for a multi-class one they are not.
- Title
- When does Massive scrape EDGAR company filings for financial reports?
- Financials Category
Financials
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Description
- There is a lag between a filing reaching EDGAR and appearing here, so do not treat the absence of a very recent filing as final. Read filing_date on the record rather than inferring timing from when you polled.
- Title
- Where does Massive source ticker news from?
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Sources Category
Sources
- Description
- From multiple financial news publishers, with each article tagged with the publisher that produced it and the tickers it mentions. A sample of 50 recent articles carried GlobeNewswire, The Motley Fool and Zacks Investment Research.
- Title
- Why are ticker symbols with dashes not showing in Massive's system?
- FAQ Category
FAQ
- Reference Data Category
Reference Data
- Stocks Category
Stocks
- Description
- Because Massive writes class shares with a dot rather than a dash, so BRK-A is BRK.A, and preferred shares with a lowercase p, so a Series D preferred is ABRpD. An unknown symbol returns an empty result rather than an error, which is why it looks like missing data.
