ASX Data for financials, cashflow and balance does not appear to be scraped correctly.

[mikesinc]

I have made the fixes as described in #191 such that the financials, cashflow and balance sheet scrapings no longer return empty dataframes, however I am further experiencing an issue to do with the actual data scraped from ASX listings.

Some data appears to be correct (e.g. ticker.info, ticker.history) but some appears to not match the Yahoo Finance page. See below example of WPL.AX financials:

Compared to the DataFrame output from ticker.financials:

import yfinance as yf
print(yf.Ticker("WPL.AX").financials)

Result:

It seems to work when I try the ticker "MSFT" but not for my ASX listings.

Has anyone had this issue or know what is going wrong?

[wnamen]

I'm actually just getting empty dataframes, MSFT included:

stock_valuation_1  | ---- DCF ----
stock_valuation_1  | Empty DataFrame
stock_valuation_1  | Columns: [Open, High, Low, Close, Adj Close, Volume]
stock_valuation_1  | Index: []

[AmareswarReddy]

I have made the fixes as described in #191 such that the financials, cashflow and balance sheet scrapings no longer return empty dataframes, however I am further experiencing an issue to do with the actual data scraped from ASX listings.

Some data appears to be correct (e.g. ticker.info, ticker.history) but some appears to not match the Yahoo Finance page. See below example of WPL.AX financials:

Compared to the DataFrame output from ticker.financials:

import yfinance as yf
print(yf.Ticker("WPL.AX").financials)

Result:

It seems to work when I try the ticker "MSFT" but not for my ASX listings.

Has anyone had this issue or know what is going wrong?

Hi,
The data that you see on the yahoo finance is wrong for few cases, not sure why.
Even i had same issue with a stock, HDFCBANK.NS, i was working. I have debugged the code as well to check the issue.
Yo can refer to the ASX report here: https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20200213/pdf/44f1ppgf86cfh7.pdf
Following is the screenshot from their annual statement :

[rodrigobercini]

Hello @mikesinc and @AmareswarReddy,

Did you nanage to solve this issue? I'm also getting some incorrect results when scraping financial data. I'm trying to troubleshoot, but no luck so far.

Meanwhile, if you want an alternative way of scraping this data, check this article by @mattbutton

Cheers!

[rodrigobercini]

I tried to incorporate matt's code on my fork (dev branch) and it seems to be partly working. Some data is getting correctly scraped, but not all of it.

Feel free to check it out and improve my code.

!pip install git+https://github.com/rodrigobercini/yfinance.git@dev
import yfinance as yf
wpl = yf.Ticker('WPL.AX')
wpl.financials

Cheers!

[dpguthrie]

If you want a solution that doesn't involve scraping, you can utilize this endpoint: https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/ws/fundamentals-timeseries/v1/finance/timeseries/{symbol} (replacing symbol with your desired symbol). The endpoint requires a few query parameters though: period1, period2, and type. Check here to see what you can pass to each of those: https://github.com/dpguthrie/yahooquery/blob/master/yahooquery/base.py#L252

[rodrigobercini]

If you want a solution that doesn't involve scraping, you can utilize this endpoint: https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/ws/fundamentals-timeseries/v1/finance/timeseries/{symbol} (replacing symbol with your desired symbol). The endpoint requires a few query parameters though: period1, period2, and type. Check here to see what you can pass to each of those: https://github.com/dpguthrie/yahooquery/blob/master/yahooquery/base.py#L252

Thank you, Doug. Your API is the best choice for retrieving financial data from Yahoo, since it can fetch the correct data for almost all the financial statements. I'm validating the data and everything seems to be consistent.