Get asset profile with latest quote
Returns asset details including the latest price data. Use the market query parameter to disambiguate symbols that exist on multiple exchanges.
Authorizations
HTTP Basic Authentication using the API Key as username and API Secret as password.
Path Parameters
Asset ticker symbol
Query Parameters
Market hint (MIC or common code) for disambiguation
Response
Asset profile
Envelope-wrapped asset resource (object: asset).
Unique identifier for the asset
"b0b6dd9d-8b9b-48b9-bbb8-bbbb49bb1bbb"
The resource type discriminator.
"investor"
Whether this resource was created against a live API key.
Test-mode keys always return false.
false
Canonical instrument class. Combine with country for the full picture
(e.g. class=equity + country=us corresponds to a US stock).
equity, etf, bond, bill, note, mutual_fund, derivative, cryptocurrency, commodity, real_estate, cash "equity"
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (lower-case). Null for country-agnostic instruments.
"us"
Market/exchange code (ISO 10383 MIC):
- XNAS: NASDAQ
- XNYS: NYSE
- BATS: BATS Global Markets
- ARCA: NYSE Arca
- OTC: OTC Markets
- XNSA: Nigerian Exchange
- XNAI: Nairobi Securities Exchange
"XNAS"
Common exchange/market identifier for display:
- NASDAQ: NASDAQ (US)
- NYSE: New York Stock Exchange (US)
- NGX: Nigerian Exchange (NG)
- NSE: Nairobi Securities Exchange (KE)
"NASDAQ"
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the exchange (upper-case). Null for global/crypto venues.
"US"
Primary trading currency of the exchange (ISO 4217).
"USD"
Asset ticker symbol. For fixed-income assets this is the bond ticker when Alpaca provides one (corporates, e.g. "ABBNVX"); treasuries, which have no ticker, fall back to the CUSIP. The CUSIP is always available as id and under bond.cusip.
"AAPL"
Full name of the asset
"Apple Inc."
Asset status
active, inactive "active"
Whether the asset is currently tradable
true
Whether the asset can be traded on margin
true
Whether the asset can be shorted
true
Whether the asset is easy to borrow for shorting
true
Whether the asset can be traded in fractional shares
true
Whether the asset supports fractional trading during extended hours (pre/post market)
true
Currency code for asset pricing (ISO 4217)
"USD"
Unix-seconds timestamp of resource creation.
1747776000
Partner-set key/value map for cross-referencing.
Current/last traded price (optional, when available)
178.5
Price change from previous close (optional)
1.5
Percentage change from previous close (optional)
0.85
Previous day's closing price (optional)
177
Current best bid price (optional)
178.48
Current best ask price (optional)
178.52
When the price was recorded by its source. Use this to judge price recency.
"2026-05-29T20:00:00.000Z"
When the asset row was last refreshed from its provider. Null for live (never-persisted) results.
"2026-06-01T02:12:31.000Z"
Fixed-income attributes. Populated only when class is bond /
bill / note. Equity / crypto / ETF assets omit this block.