# total_debt

Total debt from the latest reported balance sheet, in USD: short-term borrowings and the current portion of long-term debt, plus long-term debt including capital-lease obligations. In history, dated from the filing, like cash_on_hand.

A bigint signal column on the Tickerbot computed state table (23,230+ 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: Fundamentals
- Category: Balance sheet
- Type: bigint
- Unit: USD
- Update cadence: post-close daily
- Intervals: 1d
- Universe: all tickers
- History: partial — incomplete depth · since 2009
- Nullable: yes

## Query it

Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-10-06 and trimmed; your run's values and dates will differ.

### Every ticker matching this signal — `/v2/signals/{signal}` (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/signals.md)

#### Live — every ticker with total_debt above a cutoff

```bash
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/total_debt" \
  --data-urlencode "condition=> 92137000000" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
```

Response (sampled 2026-10-06, trimmed):

```json
{
 "as_of": "2026-10-06T12:46:30.404Z",
 "signal": "total_debt",
 "condition": "> 92137000000",
 "universe": null,
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "AMJB",
   "name": "Alerian MLP Index ETNs due January 28 2044",
   "value": 532953000000
  },
  {
   "ticker": "JPM",
   "name": "JPMorgan Chase & Co.",
   "value": 532953000000
  }
 ]
}
```

#### As-of — the same read at a past date

```bash
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/total_debt" \
  --data-urlencode "condition=> 92137000000" \
  -d "asof=2026-07-08" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
```

Response (sampled 2026-10-06, trimmed):

```json
{
 "as_of": "2026-07-08",
 "signal": "total_debt",
 "condition": "> 92137000000",
 "universe": null,
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "JPM",
   "name": "JPMorgan Chase & Co.",
   "value": 516812000000
  },
  {
   "ticker": "GS",
   "name": "Goldman Sachs Group Inc.",
   "value": 451582000000
  }
 ]
}
```

#### Subscribe — webhook when a ticker starts matching

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/total_debt/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"condition": "> 92137000000", "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` (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/scan.md)

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

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "total_debt IS NOT NULL", "order": "total_debt", "columns": "total_debt" }'
```

Response (sampled 2026-10-06, trimmed):

```json
{
 "as_of": "2026-10-06T12:46:35.124Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "total_debt IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "total_debt",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "total_debt"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "AMJB",
   "name": "Alerian MLP Index ETNs due January 28 2044",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "ETN",
   "price": 35.16,
   "change_1d_pct": null,
   "gap_pct": 0.1081,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": null,
   "total_debt": 532953000000
  },
  {
   "ticker": "JPM",
   "name": "JPMorgan Chase & Co.",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 332.26,
   "change_1d_pct": -0.03610325531018851,
   "gap_pct": 0.2235,
   "relative_volume": 0.0032,
   "market_cap": 883527927494,
   "total_debt": 532953000000
  }
 ]
}
```

#### As-of — the same scan at a past date

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "total_debt IS NOT NULL", "order": "total_debt", "columns": "total_debt", "asof": "2026-07-08" }'
```

Response (sampled 2026-10-06, trimmed):

```json
{
 "as_of": "2026-07-08",
 "query": {
  "q": "total_debt IS NOT NULL",
  "asof": "2026-07-08",
  "interval": "auto",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "total_debt",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "total_debt"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "JPM",
   "name": "JPMorgan Chase & Co.",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 330.62,
   "change_1d_pct": -2.535227875714882,
   "gap_pct": -0.7929956960085061,
   "relative_volume": 1.8075007100488447,
   "market_cap": 896216183978,
   "total_debt": 516812000000
  },
  {
   "ticker": "GS",
   "name": "Goldman Sachs Group Inc.",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 1029.64,
   "change_1d_pct": -1.2790274022512338,
   "gap_pct": -1.24451092063127,
   "relative_volume": 0.732725637602936,
   "market_cap": 301202576841,
   "total_debt": 451582000000
  }
 ]
}
```

#### Subscribe — webhook on a market-wide condition

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"q": "total_debt > 92137000000", "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` (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/series.md)

#### History — the column on an aligned time grid

```bash
curl "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/series?tickers=AAPL,MSFT&columns=close,total_debt" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
```

Response (sampled 2026-10-06, trimmed):

```json
{
 "as_of": "2026-10-06T12:46:37.866Z",
 "interval": "1d",
 "tickers": [
  "AAPL",
  "MSFT"
 ],
 "columns": [
  "close",
  "total_debt"
 ],
 "count": 6,
 "series": {
  "AAPL": [
   {
    "t": "2026-10-01",
    "close": 330.32,
    "total_debt": 84344000000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-10-02",
    "close": 333.69,
    "total_debt": 84344000000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-10-05",
    "close": 332.89,
    "total_debt": 84344000000
   }
  ],
  "MSFT": [
   {
    "t": "2026-10-01",
    "close": 512.8,
    "total_debt": 40294000000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-10-02",
    "close": 517.53,
    "total_debt": 40294000000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-10-05",
    "close": 525.18,
    "total_debt": 40294000000
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## Related signals (Balance sheet)

- [accounts_payable](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/accounts_payable.md)
- [assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/assets.md)
- [book_value](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/book_value.md)
- [cash_and_short_term_investments](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/cash_and_short_term_investments.md)
- [cash_on_hand](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/cash_on_hand.md)
- [current_assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/current_assets.md)
- [current_liabilities](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/current_liabilities.md)
- [equity](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/equity.md)
- [equity_attributable_to_noncontrolling_interest](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/equity_attributable_to_noncontrolling_interest.md)
- [equity_attributable_to_parent](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/equity_attributable_to_parent.md)
- [fixed_assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/fixed_assets.md)
- [inventory](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/inventory.md)
- [liabilities](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/liabilities.md)
- [liabilities_and_equity](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/liabilities_and_equity.md)
- [long_term_debt](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/long_term_debt.md)

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