Get Company Profile

Retrieve a comprehensive profile for any public company. The response includes the company's business description, market capitalization, sector, industry, CEO name, number of employees, IPO date, website URL, dividend information, and 30+ additional data points. This is the go-to endpoint for building company overview pages, populating research dashboards, and gathering fundamental company information.

You can look up a company by ticker symbol (AAPL), CIK (0000320193), CUSIP (037833100), or ISIN (US0378331005). All public companies are available on every plan. Results are live.

GEThttps://api.roic.ai/v2/company/profile/{identifier}
Request
curl "https://api.roic.ai/v2/company/profile/AAPL?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"
Response
200 OK
{
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "exchange": "NASDAQ",
  "sector": "Technology",
  "industry": "Consumer Electronics",
  "market_cap": 3200000000000,
  "description": "Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide.",
  "ceo": "Timothy D. Cook",
  "employees": 164000,
  "ipo_date": "1980-12-12",
  "website": "https://www.apple.com",
  "country": "United States",
  "currency": "USD"
}

Parameters

Path parameters

identifierstringrequired

Company identifier — supports ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL), CIK, CUSIP, or ISIN.

Example: AAPL

Query parameters

formatstring

Response format. Use json for JSON (default) or excel for tab-separated values compatible with Google Sheets and Excel.

Default: jsonValues: jsonexcel

Response

Response fields

symbolstring

The ticker symbol on its exchange, e.g. AAPL. Use it as the identifier when calling other v2 endpoints.

namestring

Registered name of the company, e.g. Apple Inc.. Use it for display; it is not a stable identifier.

exchangestring

Short code of the exchange where the stock is listed, e.g. NASDAQ.

sectorstring

Broad market sector the company belongs to, e.g. Technology. Values match the List All Sectors endpoint.

industrystring

More specific industry classification within the sector, e.g. Consumer Electronics. Values match the List All Industries endpoint.

market_capnumber

Total market value of the company's outstanding shares (share price times shares outstanding), in the company's reporting currency.

descriptionstring

Long-form description of what the company does: its products, markets, and operations. Typically a paragraph of prose suitable for display.

ceostring

Full name of the current chief executive officer, e.g. Timothy D. Cook.

employeesnumber

Number of employees as most recently reported by the company.

ipo_datestring

Date of the company's initial public offering, in YYYY-MM-DD format.

websitestring

URL of the company's official website, including the scheme, e.g. https://www.apple.com.

countrystring

Country where the company is headquartered, e.g. United States.

currencystring

ISO 4217 code of the currency the company reports its financials in, e.g. USD. Monetary fields such as market_cap are denominated in this currency.

Use Cases

  • Build company overview pages with business descriptions, key metrics, and executive information
  • Populate a research dashboard with sector, industry, and market cap data for portfolio companies
  • Create stock comparison tools that display side-by-side company profiles
  • Enrich ticker search results with additional company context like sector, market cap, and employee count
  • Feed company metadata into AI-powered financial analysis tools and chatbots

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