Bloomberg BDH function with ISIN

Question

I have to download historical end of day data for a huge list of stocks. I found on the bloomberg excel add-in the function BDH that is very useful. That is what I need but ther

Answer 1

To download ISIN code data the only place I see this is on the ISIN organizations website, www.isin.org. try http://isin.org, they should have a function where you can easily download.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Here's what I figured out:

=BDP(A1&"@BGN Corp", "Issuer_parent_eqy_ticker")

A1 being the ISINs. This will return the ticker number. Then just use the ticker number to get the price.

Answer 3

The problem is that an isin does not identify the exchange, only an issuer.

Let's say your isin is US4592001014 (IBM), one way to do it would be:

• get the ticker (in A1):

  =BDP("US4592001014 ISIN", "TICKER") => IBM
  

• get a proper symbol (in A2)

  =BDP("US4592001014 ISIN", "PARSEKYABLE_DES") => IBM XX Equity
  

  where XX depends on your terminal settings, which you can check on CNDF <Go>.

• get the main exchange composite ticker, or whatever suits your need (in A3):

  =BDP(A2,"EQY_PRIM_SECURITY_COMP_EXCH") => US
  

• and finally:

  =BDP(A1&" "&A3&" Equity", "LAST_PRICE") => the last price of IBM US Equity