stocks_get_balance_sheets

Normalized balance sheets for one US public company, newest first.

Same response shape as stocks_get_income_statements and stocks_get_cash_flow_statements — the statements trio is interchangeable: data holds the company identity (ticker, cik, company_name, period_type) and the bounded statements list; meta holds provenance (source: "sec_edgar_companyfacts", and as_of, the freshest line-level timestamp on this page); pagination holds the cursor paging state (pass pagination.next_cursor back as cursor).

Set as_reported=true to serve as-originally-reported values instead of the latest restated values, and keep it constant while paging. Before a company's next statement ingest this mode raises out_of_coverage. In both modes, meta.restatements lists restated reported lines with original and superseding accessions. Arithmetic-derived Q4, non-fiscal-year TTM, YTD-difference, and FCF lines carry null lineage; a TTM matching a reported fiscal year carries the annual accessions.

Each statement is one fiscal period with a lines object keyed by canonical line names: total_assets, current_assets, cash_and_equivalents, receivables, inventory, ppe_net, goodwill, intangibles, total_liabilities, current_liabilities, debt_current, debt_noncurrent, total_equity, shares_outstanding. A missing key means the company did not report that line for the period — never zero (banks, for instance, omit the current/non-current split). Balance-sheet values are point-in-time instants, so period_start equals period_end (the balance-sheet date). Each value carries value (exact decimal as a JSON string), unit, currency, as_of, and the source filing's accession_number.

For ratios and multiples (current ratio, debt-to-equity, book value), prefer stocks_get_financial_metrics — computed server-side — over deriving them from these raw lines: fewer tokens, no arithmetic slips.

Errors carry a machine code: unknown_entity for a well-formed symbol we hold no mapping for, out_of_coverage when as_reported is requested before the company's first vintage-era statement ingest, and bad_parameter for input the schema can't reject (a non-ticker string, a malformed cursor, or period="ttm").