get_quote

Get the current stock quote for a company including price, volume, change, market cap, and other real-time market data. Use this when a user asks about a stock's current price or trading activity.

Always includes halted/haltCode/haltReason/haltedAt/resumptionAt trading-halt fields (false/null when trading normally); a halted ticker returns the last-known quote instead of an error, or currentPrice:null + halted:true when nothing is recoverable. priceAsOfDate is the ET date the price PRINTED (priceAsOf the trade time when known), not when it was read; priceIsStale true means it is an older held close, so say "last traded at $X on <date>", never "trading at" or "today"; null = print date not measured. marketCap is the live price × the SEC-derived share count; when that count is unavailable it is null with marketCapWithheldReason set — NOT MEASURED, never "no market cap" and never $0.

The count itself rides as sharesOutstanding with sharesOutstandingAsOf + sharesOutstandingAsOfKind ("stated" = the issuer's statement date; "checked" = when it was last confirmed against a vendor; "none" = date not recorded) and a vendor-free sharesOutstandingSource — quote the date with the count.

When no MEASURED count exists, sharesOutstanding and marketCap are a BEST ESTIMATE (the newest dated filed or reference count, moved onto today's split basis): sharesOutstandingEstimated: true, sharesOutstandingEstimateKind ("stated_as_of" = the ISSUER's last stated count, a dated point; the filings record later issuances LISTED in statedAsOf.events, not added — "at_least" is the retired name of the same state) and marketCapEstimated: true with marketCapAsOf (the count's date).

Render a stated_as_of count WITH its date and its events ("2,357,498 as of 2026-10-08 · plus an offering closed 2026-10-09 whose share count is not stated"); never as a bound, never as today's count.