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price_to_book

Current price ÷ `book_value`. Common value-investing metric.

metadata
typenumeric
cadencepost-close daily
intervals1d
universeall tickers
historyfull · since 2009
nullableyes — NULL where not applicable

Swap YOUR_KEY for a key from /dashboard/keys. Responses are real captures from 2026-09-18, trimmed.

Every ticker matching this signal /v2/signals/{signal}

Live — every ticker with price_to_book above a cutoff
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/price_to_book" \
  --data-urlencode "condition=> 26.97" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-09-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-09-18T14:40:49.890Z",
 "signal": "price_to_book",
 "condition": "> 26.97",
 "universe": null,
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "CEPV",
   "name": "Cantor Equity Partners V, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares",
   "value": 194720.79
  },
  {
   "ticker": "PBT",
   "name": "Permian Basin Royalty Trust",
   "value": 9991.74
  }
 ]
}
As-of — the same read at a past date
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/price_to_book" \
  --data-urlencode "condition=> 26.97" \
  -d "asof=2026-07-04" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-09-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-06-20",
 "signal": "price_to_book",
 "condition": "> 26.97",
 "universe": null,
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "AKTX",
   "name": "Akari Therapeutics plc ADR (0.01 USD)",
   "value": 31443.668389033366
  },
  {
   "ticker": "PBT",
   "name": "Permian Basin Royalty Trust",
   "value": 7194.070519569273
  }
 ]
}
Subscribe — webhook when a ticker starts matching
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/price_to_book/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"condition": "> 26.97", "target_url": "https://example.com/hooks/tickerbot"}'

Returns 201 with the created webhook — the same shape as GET /v2/webhooks/{id}, plus a one-time signing_secret for HMAC verification.

The whole market, filtered on it /v2/scan

Live — the whole market, ranked by this column
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "price_to_book IS NOT NULL", "order": "price_to_book", "columns": "price_to_book" }'
Response (sampled 2026-09-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-09-18T14:40:56.190Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "price_to_book IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "price_to_book",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "price_to_book"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "CEPV",
   "name": "Cantor Equity Partners V, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 10.285,
   "change_1d_pct": -0.7239382239382172,
   "gap_pct": -0.1544,
   "relative_volume": 0.0029,
   "market_cap": 329662300,
   "price_to_book": 194720.79
  },
  {
   "ticker": "PBT",
   "name": "Permian Basin Royalty Trust",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 35.04,
   "change_1d_pct": 0.5163511187607565,
   "gap_pct": -0.0861,
   "relative_volume": 1.5766,
   "market_cap": 1624316540,
   "price_to_book": 9991.74
  }
 ]
}
As-of — the same scan at a past date
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "price_to_book IS NOT NULL", "order": "price_to_book", "columns": "price_to_book", "asof": "2026-07-04" }'
Response (sampled 2026-09-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-06-20",
 "query": {
  "q": "price_to_book IS NOT NULL",
  "asof": "2026-06-20",
  "interval": "auto",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "price_to_book",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "price_to_book"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "AKTX",
   "name": "Akari Therapeutics plc ADR (0.01 USD)",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "ADRC",
   "price": 10.94,
   "change_1d_pct": -8.833333333333337,
   "gap_pct": 0.16666666666666313,
   "relative_volume": 0.04309841803808649,
   "market_cap": 12521793,
   "price_to_book": 31443.668389033366
  },
  {
   "ticker": "PBT",
   "name": "Permian Basin Royalty Trust",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 24.97,
   "change_1d_pct": -1.6929133858267706,
   "gap_pct": -0.7480314960629831,
   "relative_volume": 1.0213863315135379,
   "market_cap": 1168482516,
   "price_to_book": 7194.070519569273
  }
 ]
}
Subscribe — webhook on a market-wide condition
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"q": "price_to_book > 26.97", "target_url": "https://example.com/hooks/tickerbot"}'

Returns 201 with the created webhook object; deliveries carry the tickers matching the condition at each evaluation.

Its history /v2/series

History — the column on an aligned time grid
curl "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/series?tickers=AAPL,MSFT&columns=close,price_to_book" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-09-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-09-18T14:41:01.998Z",
 "interval": "1d",
 "tickers": [
  "AAPL",
  "MSFT"
 ],
 "columns": [
  "close",
  "price_to_book"
 ],
 "count": 6,
 "series": {
  "AAPL": [
   {
    "t": "2026-09-15",
    "close": 331.34,
    "price_to_book": 45.21
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-09-16",
    "close": 332.41,
    "price_to_book": 44.97
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-09-17",
    "close": 337.002,
    "price_to_book": 45.12
   }
  ],
  "MSFT": [
   {
    "t": "2026-09-15",
    "close": 497.12,
    "price_to_book": 8.48
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-09-16",
    "close": 490.3,
    "price_to_book": 8.34
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-09-17",
    "close": 497.75,
    "price_to_book": 8.23
   }
  ]
 }
}

Same grammar on scan, series, and webhooks; state reads take ?asof= for point-in-time answers.

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