Finding Non-US Dividend History Through Yahoo Finance
Summary
The document asks where to obtain free dividend history for companies listed outside the United States. It points to Yahoo Finance as a source, with examples from Germany, Switzerland, France, and Spain. Historical dividend events can be retrieved as CSV, and the answer notes that R, Python, and other libraries provide functions for accessing the data.
The discussion is a practical data-source suggestion rather than a comparison of coverage, reliability, or licensing. It does not explain how to build the proposed open-source tool or assess whether the data is complete, adjusted, or suitable for research. A second answer names another dividend API but gives no details. Researchers should therefore treat the suggestions as leads to investigate and validate against other sources before using the data in analysis.
Key ideas
- Yahoo Finance is suggested as a source of dividend history for some non-US listings.
- Dividend event data can be retrieved in CSV form.
- R and Python libraries offer ways to access the historical data.
- The discussion does not establish data completeness, licensing, or reliability.
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# Free dividend data API for non-US stocks # Free dividend data API for non-US stocks Is there are any free API for dividend data that does also include non-US stocks? I know of this question from three years ago. However, the situation has changed since then apparently, as there are now at least options for US stocks. Both https://iexcloud.io/ and https://www.alphavantage.co have free options for US stocks dividends data, but no global offering. I would like to build a free and open source web-based tool that works with this data. ## Answer by Martin (score 3) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/54263 Yahoo Finance For example - BASF (listed in Germany): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BAS.DE/history?period1=796867200&period2=1589932800&interval=div%7Csplit&filter=div&frequency=1d - Roche (listed in Switzerland): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ROG.SW/history?period1=796867200&period2=1589932800&interval=div%7Csplit&filter=div&frequency=1d - Airbus (listed in France): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AIR.PA/history?period1=999475200&period2=1589932800&interval=div%7Csplit&filter=div&frequency=1d - Santander (Spain): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SAN.MC/history?period1=946857600&period2=1589932800&interval=div%7Csplit&filter=div&frequency=1d etc. The data is available as CSV, the URL GET arguments are self-explanatory. There's also libraries in R (quantmod), Python and others with ready functions to pull the data. ## Answer by Robbie Q (score -1) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/60264 finki.io does a great dividend API
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