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Historical Market Capitalization Data via quantmod?


Is it possible to get historical market capitalization data via the quantmod package?

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Given Yahoo for example only provide market cap as of today, i wonder is it ok to try infer historical market caps by:

[market_cap_today]/[adjusted_price] = [share_volume]

And then use [share_volume] to get the market cap for last week via:

[share_volume]*[adjusted_price_last_week] = [market_cap_last_week]


Solution

  • The quantmod package can only provide access to data if external data providers make it available. I don't believe Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, etc provide historical market capitalization, so the answer to your question is "no".