How to get data about a company's financials, balance sheet, cash flow, etc. via its ticker symbol [closed]
Yahoo! finance has a really simple API which returns results in CSV format. As well as stock price it can also return Dividend Yield, EBITDA, Annualized Gains etc.Here's an example:
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=MSFT+AAPL+f=j4g3yA really good explanation of what it can return is available here
[Edit] I just tried to use the explanation page, but it has been the subject of a Yahoo takedown notice. WayBack Machine solves that problem: http://web.archive.org/web/20140503202125/http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm
Have you tried wolframalpha.com? for example if you enter MSFT it gives incredible information regarding microsoft. And here is their api information http://www.wolframalpha.com/WolframAlphaAPI.pdf