Code Snippets
curl "https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=RSG&key=API_KEY"import requests
url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=RSG&key=API_KEY'
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())
const url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=RSG&key=API_KEY';
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Sample Response
[
{
"trading_symbol": "RSG",
"title_of_security": "Republic Services Inc.",
"market_code": "NYSE",
"settlement_date": "2026-09-30",
"shorted_securities": 4816358,
"previous_shorted_securities": 4944244,
"change_in_shorted_securities": -127886,
"percentage_change_in_shorted_securities": -2.59,
"average_daily_volume": 1641336,
"days_to_cover": 2.93,
"is_stock_split": false
},
...
]Query Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| identifier | string | The trading symbol for a security. (e.g., MSFT) |
| offset | integer | (Optional) The initial position of the record subset, which indicates how many records to skip. Defaults to 0. (e.g., 100) |
| format | string | (Optional) The format of the returned data, either JSON or CSV. Defaults to JSON. (e.g., json, csv) |
Endpoint Overview
Short interest represents the number of shares of a company that are currently sold short and have not yet been covered. The short interest ratio, also known as days to cover, represents the number of days it would take for all short-sold shares to be covered or repurchased in the market. Our API provides short interest data for over 15,000 securities. There is a limit of 100 records per API call.
Company Profile
REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.
NYSE: RSG- Market Cap:$77.00B
- ISIN:US7607591002
- Fiscal Year End:12/31
- CEO:Jon Vander Ark
- Employees:42000
Republic Services, Inc. is a American waste disposal company whose services include non-hazardous solid waste collection, waste transfer, waste disposal, recycling, and energy services. It is the second largest provider of waste disposal in the United States (as measured by revenue) after Waste Management. Its operations primarily consist of providing collection, transfer, and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste, recovering and recycling of certain materials, and energy services. The company is 35.1% owned by Bill Gates's Cascade Investment.