search_securities

Searches for publicly listed companies and their stocks (share classes) by free-text query. Use this first to obtain the company_id required by other tools such as get_owner_list. The query can be a company name (e.g. 'BP'), stock name, ticker symbol (e.g. 'BP.'), 12-character ISIN (e.g. 'GB0007980591'), or 20-character LEI. Coverage spans publicly listed companies globally, with strong coverage of the UK, Europe, and the US. Each match returns one company plus its associated share classes; a company with multiple share classes (e.g. voting and non-voting shares) returns one entry with multiple stocks. Each match also reports how the company is classified and where it trades: sector_id / sector_name and industry_id / industry_name (Modular Finance's own sector taxonomy, listed in full by list_sectors), and market_segment_id / market_segment_name with market_country for the primary listing (listed by list_market_segments). country is where the company is incorporated and can differ from market_country, where its shares trade. Those ids are the filters list_companies takes, so a match is also the starting point for "which other companies are like this one". Use list_companies instead of this tool when you have no name to search for and want every company matching a sector, country or market segment. Successful calls may consume Dataflow credits.