Easily Track Key Security Changes with Confidence

In today’s world, security data doesn’t stay still, not for a moment. A company pays a dividend, a stock splits, or a reverse split changes the company’s share structure; nothing ever stays the same. And when those changes occur, platforms need a reliable way to keep users informed and up to date. Luckily, there is an answer to this: corporate actions data comes into play.

Corporate Actions Help Break Down What Changed

Most financial platforms show users prices, charts, performance, and security details. But corporate actions take things a step further by explaining the events that can change how information is viewed and understood.

A dividend can affect income expectations, while a stock split can change how users interpret price history and share quantities. Then, when it comes to a spinoff, this can create new securities and ownership considerations, and a reverse split can reshape how users understand the company’s activity and security movements.

In reality, without clean corporate actions data, users will likely be unable to see the number and will miss the real reason and context behind the sudden change.

Here’s Why Corporate Actions Data Can Be Hard to Manage

Corporate actions can involve many types of events, dates, identifiers, markets, and data fields. And for so many platforms, this can create unnecessary extra work if teams need to track dividends, splits, spinoffs, DRIPs, optional dividends, and bonus actions across disconnected services or manual workflows.

As a result, it becomes much harder to keep security data current and consistent across investor dashboards, portfolio tools, research platforms, trading workflows, and market data applications. In reality, the issue isn’t just access to data; it’s really having the data structured in a way that platforms can actually use.

A Single API for Key Security Changes

QuoteMedia’s Corporate Actions service provides platforms with structured corporate actions data via a single XML/JSON API. The service supports key events, including distributions and stock splits, as well as corporate action types such as cash dividends, stock dividends, spinoffs, DRIPs, optional dividends, forward splits, reverse splits, and bonus actions.

The end result is that by consolidating these event types into a single API, QuoteMedia can help platforms achieve less fragmented workflows and deliver corporate action data more effectively.

Stay Current Across Supported Markets

QuoteMedia’s Corporate Actions service supports US and Canadian market coverage, including daily updates and up to 10 years of available historical records.

Platforms can access structured event fields, including issuer details, symbols, identifiers, event codes, ex-dates, record dates, payment dates, currencies, dividend amounts, and related corporate action information.

Ultimately, that structure is what makes it easier to display, filter, analyze, and integrate corporate actions data across platform workflows.

Explore QuoteMedia’s Corporate Actions Service

QuoteMedia’s Corporate Actions Service helps platforms easily track key security changes using structured data for dividends, stock splits, spinoffs, and related corporate action events.

And for so many teams building investor tools, trading platforms, research experiences, portfolio workflows, or market data applications, corporate actions data helps ensure security information is accurate, up to date, and easier to understand. 

So, what are you waiting for? Learn more about how QuoteMedia’s Corporate Actions Service structured data can help platforms track key security changes with complete confidence.