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Obtain financial metric benchmarks by NAICS code
Select NAICS Industry Code
GET /v1/industry-data/industry-codes to get a list of valid NAICS codes. You can also pass in keywords as parameters to find specific business types. For example, GET /v1/industry-data/industry-codes?keyword=restaurants returns a list of NAICS codes related to restaurants.
Sample Response
{
"industryCodes": [
{
"industryCode": "445240",
"industryName": "Meat Retailers",
"industryLevel": 4
},
{
"industryCode": "7225",
"industryName": "Restaurants and Other Eating Places",
"industryLevel": 2
},
{
"industryCode": "72251",
"industryName": "Restaurants and Other Eating Places",
"industryLevel": 3
},
{
"industryCode": "722511",
"industryName": "Full-Service Restaurants",
"industryLevel": 4
},
{
"industryCode": "722513",
"industryName": "Limited-Service Restaurants",
"industryLevel": 4
}
]
}
Obtain Financial Metrics by NAICS code
Once you have a NAICS code to search, use the summary statistics endpoint like this example to get back benchmark financial metrics for this industry GET /v1/industry-data/summary-statistics?industryCode=722511. Note, the count in the response shows you how many financial statements were used to calculate each benchmark ratio.
{
"summaryStatistics": [
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"median": 1.1563836176273576,
"thirdQuartile": 2.9895831148066683,
"mean": 2.7890709191054657,
"count": 72390
},
{
"metric": "accountsPayableDays",
"firstQuartile": 0,
"median": 5.124054022733685,
"thirdQuartile": 24.08721666074782,
"mean": 15.207359414660804,
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},
{
"metric": "accountsReceivableDays",
"firstQuartile": 0,
"median": 0,
"thirdQuartile": 0.05005880165515249,
"mean": 0.541990289356342,
"count": 77892
},
{
"metric": "inventoryDays",
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"median": 10.949512108182772,
"thirdQuartile": 18.616406888764875,
"mean": 14.760203933759023,
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},
{
"metric": "ebitdaMargin",
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"median": 0.0633,
"thirdQuartile": 0.1218,
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},
{
"metric": "overhead",
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"median": 0.42864899348608393,
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},
{
"metric": "quickRatio",
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},
{
"metric": "debtServiceRatio",
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},
{
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},
{
"metric": "grossProfitMargin",
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"median": 0.6231405236404194,
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},
{
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},
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}
]
}
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