# cash_and_short_term_investments

Cash and cash equivalents plus short-term investments from the latest reported balance sheet, in USD. When the balance sheet reports no short-term investments, it equals cash_on_hand. In history, dated from the filing, like cash_on_hand.

A bigint signal column on the Tickerbot computed state table (23,230+ ticker rows) — computed by the platform, queryable by bare name across the API. Values are NULL on rows the signal doesn't apply to.

- Group: Fundamentals
- Category: Balance sheet
- Type: bigint
- Unit: USD
- Update cadence: post-close daily
- Intervals: 1d
- Universe: all tickers
- History: partial — incomplete depth · since 2009
- Nullable: yes

## Query it

Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-09-18 and trimmed; your run's values and dates will differ.

### The whole market, filtered on it — `/v2/scan` (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/scan.md)

#### Live — the whole market, ranked by this column

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "cash_and_short_term_investments IS NOT NULL", "order": "cash_and_short_term_investments", "columns": "cash_and_short_term_investments" }'
```

#### As-of — the same scan at a past date

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "cash_and_short_term_investments IS NOT NULL", "order": "cash_and_short_term_investments", "columns": "cash_and_short_term_investments", "asof": "2026-07-07" }'
```

### Its history — `/v2/series` (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/series.md)

#### History — the column on an aligned time grid

```bash
curl "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/series?tickers=AAPL,MSFT&columns=close,cash_and_short_term_investments" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
```

## Related signals (Balance sheet)

- [accounts_payable](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/accounts_payable.md)
- [assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/assets.md)
- [book_value](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/book_value.md)
- [cash_on_hand](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/cash_on_hand.md)
- [current_assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/current_assets.md)
- [current_liabilities](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/current_liabilities.md)
- [equity](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/equity.md)
- [equity_attributable_to_noncontrolling_interest](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/equity_attributable_to_noncontrolling_interest.md)
- [equity_attributable_to_parent](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/equity_attributable_to_parent.md)
- [fixed_assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/fixed_assets.md)
- [inventory](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/inventory.md)
- [liabilities](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/liabilities.md)
- [liabilities_and_equity](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/liabilities_and_equity.md)
- [long_term_debt](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/long_term_debt.md)
- [noncurrent_assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/noncurrent_assets.md)

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