BQ Financials and Employment API

This API offers current and historic Financials and Employment data for approximately 102M Organizations that do business in the US.

  • This API encompasses major income statement and balance sheet items, financial ratios & margins and employment data, both recent and historic.
  • Company level current financials on a trailing 12 month, historical annual fiscal-year financials, historical quarterly financials and historical monthly employment and payroll are available.
  • Historic data goes back up to last 5 years on a monthly basis for employment and payroll and quarterly basis for financials
  • Use the unique BQ ID to get the financials and employment data. Obtain the response output in JSON format
  • The data on company financials and employment numbers is sourced from over 100,000 reliable government sources.

Major Features included:

  • Income Statement: Key income statement metrics for a company, including revenue, net income, EBIT, and EBITDA. Assess a company's financial performance and compare it to its competitors.
  • Balance Sheet Items: Assets, Liabilities (Current and Non-Current) and Debt information such as Cash, Accounts Payables, Inventories, Loans and total debt to assess the financial health of a company.
  • Ratios and Margins: Attributes like gross profit margin, EBITDA margin, asset and debt to equity ratios are available. Measure how quickly a company's overall financial performance is improving.
  • Employment & Payroll:Monthly employment and payroll numbers to track how a company's workforce has grown or declined over time with our Historical Employees endpoint.
  • Growth Rates: Year over Year, Quarter over Quarter and month over month Revenue and employment Growth rates are also available.

Use Cases

  • Capital Market
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Compliance and KYB (Know Your Business) / KYC (Know Your Client)
  • Credit Risk: Insurance & Banking

Caching of API Data

You must not pre-fetch, cache, or store the Financials and Employment API content beyond 7 days, although the BQ_ID is exempt from caching restrictions.

Authentication Method

The API supports the following authentication method

  • API Key Authentication

Method: GET

API Key authentication

You can use the API Endpoint to manually supply your API Key provided by BQ.

BQ Financials and Employment API

API EndPoint

https://apigw.brightquery.com/extraction/api/financials?bq_id=100071190384

Query Parameter

bq_id=100071190384

ParameterData TypeDescription
bq_idintUnique ID assigned by BQ to the Organization.

Table of Contents

Overview

Use Cases

Authentication

Financials and Employment API