Code Snippets
curl "https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VMC&key=API_KEY"import requests
url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VMC&key=API_KEY'
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())
const url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VMC&key=API_KEY';
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Sample Response
[
{
"trading_symbol": "VMC",
"title_of_security": "Vulcan Materials Company(Holdi",
"market_code": "NYSE",
"settlement_date": "2026-09-30",
"shorted_securities": 5307437,
"previous_shorted_securities": 5543643,
"change_in_shorted_securities": -236206,
"percentage_change_in_shorted_securities": -4.26,
"average_daily_volume": 1424485,
"days_to_cover": 3.73,
"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
Vulcan Materials CO
NYSE: VMC- Market Cap:$34.42B
- ISIN:US9291601097
- Fiscal Year End:12/31
- Employees:12000
Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) is an American company based in Birmingham, Alabama. It is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of aggregate construction materials, primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand, and employs approximately 12,000 people at over 400 facilities. Vulcan serves 22 states, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, Bahamas and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Vulcan's Crescent Market project led to construction of a large quarry and deep water seaport on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, just south of Cancún. This quarry supplies Tampa, New Orleans, Houston, and Brownsville, Texas, as well as other Gulf coast seaports, with crushed limestone via large 62,000-ton self-discharging ships.