Company Sector Classification?

[webbsledge]

Does anyone know if the sector of a company is available in edgartools? It is in the filings, (oddly) beside "Organization Name" in 10-K and 10-Q, but I'm having a hard time telling if edgartools is parsing this data or not.

The reason I ask if because I'm doing some investment portfolio optimization, and I need to set some sector constraints. I can do this by hand, but obviously that's less than ideal as positions change over time, and the SEC "industry" classification is a too granular.

[dgunning]

Yes.

>>> c = Company("AAPL")
>>> c.industry
'Electronic Computers'

[webbsledge]

Thanks @dgunning. The XOM filing actually misled me. I thought the SEC had a parent "sector" classification into which the SICs would be characterized. After your input and further research, I believe what I'm thinking of is the MSCI/S&P Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), which sometimes gets used by financial data providers.

[unparadise]

@dgunning Is the industry attribute removed from the most recent release?

Here is the available methods and attributes for the Company object using the dir() function.

['abstractmethods', 'class', 'delattr', 'dict', 'dir', 'doc', 'eq', 'firstlineno', 'format', 'ge', 'getattribute', 'getstate', 'gt', 'hash', 'init', 'init_subclass', 'le', 'lt', 'module', 'ne', 'new', 'reduce', 'reduce_ex', 'repr', 'rich', 'setattr', 'sizeof', 'slots', 'static_attributes', 'str', 'subclasshook', 'weakref', '_abc_impl', '_cik', '_data', '_format_fiscal_year_date', '_get_operating_type_emoticon', 'business_address', 'cik', 'data', 'display_name', 'get_exchanges', 'get_facts', 'get_filings', 'get_financials', 'get_icon', 'get_quarterly_financials', 'get_ticker', 'is_company', 'is_individual', 'latest', 'latest_tenk', 'latest_tenq', 'mailing_address', 'name', 'not_found', 'tickers']

But when I typed the following code in IDLE, the industry data is correctly returned.

from edgar import *
set_identity("identity_info")
c = Company("AAPL")
c.industry

---Output---
'Electronic Computers'

Thank you for your help!

[unparadise]

@dgunning I did more tests and find the issue quite strange.

The same program I listed above runs correctly in IDLE but when I tried to run it with "python3 <file_name>", it returns the the following error.

 c.industry
AttributeError: 'Company' object has no attribute 'industry'

[dgunning]

Sorry for just getting back. I've had an extremely busy week away from edgartools
After the 4.0.0 release I noticed a few explicit attributes were missing - including industry and I have some changes in my workspace to add them back. The difference this time is that it would be get_industry in place of industry, in an attempt to make the api more intuitive and consistent. That being said - intuitive is also subjective so users' should give feedback on the api.

Regardless, I will try to do a release today with a patch for the missing features. I will be more free after mid week to put more work into the library