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long_term_debt
Long-term debt obligations. Often NULL because issuers fold this into `noncurrent_liabilities` instead of breaking it out.
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At a glance
| Type | bigint |
| Group | Fundamentals |
| Category | Balance sheet |
| Unit | USD |
| Update cadence | post-close daily |
| Universe | all tickers |
| History | none — live row only, not historized (no as-of reads) |
| Nullable | yes — NULL where not applicable |
Balance-sheet lines as reported.
Query it
Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Swap YOUR_KEY for the value from /dashboard/keys. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-08-18 and trimmed — your run's values and dates will differ.
Use scan /v2/scan
The whole market through a WHERE clause — this signal composed freely with any other column. Docs →
Live — the whole market, ranked by this column
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
--data-urlencode "q=long_term_debt IS NOT NULL" \
-d "order=long_term_debt" -d "columns=long_term_debt" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
"as_of": "2026-08-18T00:24:24.507Z",
"query": {
"q": "long_term_debt IS NOT NULL",
"limit": 2,
"order": "long_term_debt",
"dir": "desc",
"fields": [
"long_term_debt"
],
"full": false,
"universe": null,
"asset_class": null
},
"count": 0,
"results": []
}Same grammar on scan and webhooks. This column is live-tense only — it isn't historized, so ?asof= reads and series pulls don't carry it.