# sic_description

Plain-text label for the company's SIC industry code.

A text signal column on the Tickerbot computed state table (20,798+ 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: Profile
- Category: Classification
- Type: text
- Update cadence: post-close daily
- Universe: all tickers
- History: none — live row only, not historized (no as-of reads for this column)
- Nullable: yes

## Query it

Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. 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. (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/scan.md)

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

```bash
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  --data-urlencode "q=sic_description IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=sic_description" -d "columns=sic_description" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
```

Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed):

```json
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:25:50.861Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "sic_description IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "sic_description",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "sic_description"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "BFLY",
   "name": "Butterfly Network, Inc.",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 9.335,
   "day_change_pct": 0.056,
   "gap_pct": -0.0136,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": 2353961017,
   "sic_description": "X-RAY APPARATUS & TUBES & RELATED IRRADIATION APPARATUS"
  },
  {
   "ticker": "GEHC",
   "name": "GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. Common Stock",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 72.677,
   "day_change_pct": -0.0137,
   "gap_pct": -0.0045,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": 33284759909,
   "sic_description": "X-RAY APPARATUS & TUBES & RELATED IRRADIATION APPARATUS"
  }
 ]
}
```

## Related signals (Classification)

- [asset_class](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/asset_class.md)
- [asset_type](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/asset_type.md)
- [country](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/country.md)
- [currency_name](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/currency_name.md)
- [exchange](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/exchange.md)
- [exchange_mic](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/exchange_mic.md)
- [industry](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/industry.md)
- [sector](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/sector.md)
- [sic_code](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/sic_code.md)
- [ticker_category](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/ticker_category.md)

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