find_companies

Identify a private or public company by name and retrieve its Knowledge Graph ID.

Sunsetting Notice: find_companies is being replaced by find_securities, which extends company lookup capabilities to include ETFs, funds, and bonds.

Overview

The find_companies tool lets you look up any private or public company and returns the company’s Knowledge Graph ID, which can then be used as input in other Bigdata.com tools such as bigdata_company_tearsheet or bigdata_events_calendar.

Agents can search using partial names or market identifiers such as ticker symbols, ISINs, SEDOLs, or CUSIPs. For private companies, the best approach is to search by their webpage URL.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
query	string	Yes	Accepts partial or complete company name, webpage, ticker, ISIN, SEDOL, or CUSIP.

Migration to find_securities

What’s changing:

• find_securities extends company search to include securities, ETFs, and funds
• Additional filtering options: countries, sectors, listing_type, security_types
• Same response format with id (Knowledge Graph ID) for downstream tool usage

Migration path:

• Replace find_companies(query="Apple") with find_securities(query="Apple")
• The id field works identically in downstream tools like bigdata_company_tearsheet

find_companies will remain available during the transition period to ensure backward compatibility.