import yfinance as yf
#define the ticker symbol
tickerSymbol = "AFT.NZ"
#get data on this ticker
tickerData = yf.Ticker(tickerSymbol)
print(tickerData.info)
This doesn't seem to work. IndexError: list index out of range
Replace "AFT.NZ" with "MSFT" or "FPH.NZ" and it works fine. Going to the Yahoo website, can't see why it wouldn't have data on it.
What's more confusing, is that replacing print(tickerData.info) with tickerDf = tickerData.history(period='max') does print some of the data.
I need the info because I want the full name of the company along with the currency the shares are traded in. Which is why just having the price data isn't the solution.
The AFT.NZ is just an example, most others on the NZX50 seem to have the same problem.
There's a merge request from williamsiuhang to fix this that's currently 9 days old. https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance/pull/371/commits/7e137357296a1df177399d26543e889848efc021
I just made the change manually myself, go into base.py (in your_py_dir\Lib\site-packages\yfinance) and change line 286:
old line:
self._institutional_holders = holders[1]
new line:
self._institutional_holders = holders[1] if len(holders) > 1 else []