Finding TSX Listings and Sector Data from Exchange and Market Sources
Summary
The document compares ways to assemble a list of Toronto Stock Exchange securities with company and sector information. The responses point to a Yahoo ticker downloader that reportedly returns tickers, names, exchanges, sectors, and categories for many international listings, including TSX and TSX Venture securities. Another response describes the exchange’s JSON company directory as a source for listed tickers, while noting that it lacks industry and sector fields. The exchange screener can add a sector column, but each run is limited to a subset of results; splitting the search into market capitalization ranges is suggested to cover more listings. Other cited sources include a Wikipedia index table and a Quandl database list, though the latter is said not to include sector or industry data. These are user-supplied recommendations rather than a verified current data audit. Coverage, availability, field definitions, and freshness may vary across providers, so the listed sources may need checking before use.
Key ideas
- The TSX company directory is described as a source of listed tickers, but not sector or industry classifications.
- A stock screener can include sector data, though the response describes a limit on results per run.
- Yahoo ticker downloading is suggested for broad international ticker and classification data.
- The listed recommendations are not verified for current coverage or data freshness.
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# List of TSX stocks with their sector and industry # List of TSX stocks with their sector and industry Is there a website that offers free download or API where I can get an up-to-date list of all securities listed on the TSX along with their sector/industry? I could scrape individual screens for each stock on the web, but I'd like to find a single source of data for all stocks...Thanks! ## Answer by Rime (score 2, accepted) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/32251 I have been using Yahoo-ticker-downloader.py to download tickers from Yahoo! It returns MOST tickers from international exchanges and returns Ticker, Company Name, Exchange, Sector, and Category Number. Here are 1,500+ tickers form the Toronto & TSX Venture Exchanges: You're Welcome ## Answer by pards (score 3) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/40513 The Toronto Stock Exchange has an API that returns all of the listed tickers in JSON format. Unfortunately it does not contain the industry/sector data. https://www.tsx.com/json/company-directory/search/tsx/^* The `^*` at the end is a regular expression. ## Answer by assylias (score 1) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/24889 You can use the stock screener provided by the exchange. You can specify your criteria (Exchange = Toronto) and once you get the results, you can click on "Edit columns" and add the Sector. The results are limited to 400 per run, but you can easily split your search into chunks by your choice of filter. For example you can filter by Market Cap 0-100M, then 100M-200M, and so on. Takes a few minutes but gets you the full list in the end. ## Answer by NorwayRed (score -1) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/25170 Wikipedia has a simple table. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P/TSX_Composite_Index ## Answer by user37317 (score -2) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/25344 There is a database from Quandl that shows EOD prices for stocks traded in the TSX and if you go to the documentation part of the database here https://www.quandl.com/data/XTSE/documentation/documentation, you can click on the link where it says "A full list of all stocks in this database, along with their ticker symbols, can be downloaded here." This lets you ownload the list of over 4000 companies trading stocks in the TSX. I don't think it shows the sector or industry of each company though...
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