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sic_description

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

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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=sic_description IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=sic_description" -d "columns=sic_description" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "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"
  }
 ]
}

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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