balance_sheet is a yfinance Ticker property that returns a company’s balance sheet as a pandas DataFrame. Financially, it records assets, liabilities, and shareholders’ equity; liabilities exceeding assets can signal serious trouble. section 2.1.2 section 3.4.1
Interpret the returned structure as follows:
- Read report filing dates from columns and reported metrics from rows. section 3.4.1
- Use the quarterly_balance_sheet attribute when quarterly results are required. section 3.4.1
- Combine balance-sheet values with income-statement values to calculate ratios such as return on assets or debt-to-equity. section 3.4.1
Retrieve the latest balance sheet
import yfinance as yf company = yf.Ticker("MSFT") company.balance_sheet latest = company.balance_sheet.columns[0] debt_to_equity = company.balance_sheet[latest]["Total Debt"] / company.balance_sheet[latest]["Stockholders Equity"] section 3.4.1
Assets = Liabilities + Shareholders’ equity
Use the accounting identity to check how assets relate to liabilities and shareholders’ equity. section 2.1.2
