Code Snippets
curl "https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VTR&key=API_KEY"import requests
url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VTR&key=API_KEY'
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())
const url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VTR&key=API_KEY';
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Sample Response
[
{
"trading_symbol": "VTR",
"title_of_security": "Ventas, Inc.",
"market_code": "NYSE",
"settlement_date": "2026-09-30",
"shorted_securities": 16501695,
"previous_shorted_securities": 19779274,
"change_in_shorted_securities": -3277579,
"percentage_change_in_shorted_securities": -16.57,
"average_daily_volume": 4236225,
"days_to_cover": 3.9,
"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
Ventas, Inc.
NYSE: VTR- Market Cap:$28.60B
- ISIN:US92276F1003
- Fiscal Year End:12/31
- CEO:Debra Cafaro
- Employees:500
Ventas, Inc. is a real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership and management of research, medicine and healthcare facilities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. As of December 2019, the group's portfolio consisted of 1,200 properties divided among nursing homes, medical office buildings, rehabilitation and acute care centres, special care centres, laboratories and research centres and medical-surgical centres for a total value of nearly $25 billion.