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sector

GICS sector. One of: Technology, Healthcare, Financials, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Energy, Industrials, Materials, Utilities, Real Estate, Communication Services.

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At a glance

Typetext
GroupProfile
CategoryClassification
Update cadencepost-close daily
Universeall tickers
Historynone — live row only, not historized (no as-of reads)
Nullableyes — NULL where not applicable

Categorical facts: sector, industry, SIC, exchange, country, currency, asset class and sub-class.

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=sector IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=sector" -d "columns=sector" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:25:44.345Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "sector IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "sector",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "sector"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "AEE",
   "name": "Ameren Corporation",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 109.51,
   "day_change_pct": -0.0021,
   "gap_pct": -0.0046,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": 30380778364,
   "sector": "Utilities"
  },
  {
   "ticker": "AEP",
   "name": "American Electric Power Company, Inc.",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 126.6,
   "day_change_pct": 0.008,
   "gap_pct": -0.0057,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": 68376307411,
   "sector": "Utilities"
  }
 ]
}

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.

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