{"id":37434,"date":"2025-12-25T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/open-source-or-cheap-alternative-to-gics-icb-security-industry-sectors\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:27:10","slug":"open-source-or-cheap-alternative-to-gics-icb-security-industry-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/open-source-or-cheap-alternative-to-gics-icb-security-industry-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Or Cheap Alternative To GICS\/ICB Security Industry Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>GICS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msci.com\/indexes\/index-resources\/gics\">The Global Industry Classification Standard<\/a> from MSCI) and ICB (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lseg.com\/en\/ftse-russell\/industry-classification-benchmark-icb\">Industry Classification Benchmark<\/a> from FTSE\/LSE\/Dow Jones) seem to dominate the securities industry sector data market.<\/p>\n<p>There are alternatives available from players such at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.com\/index\">ICE<\/a>, but in all cases, they are proprietary, and as far as i can tell pretty much identical.<\/p>\n<p>11 top level sectors, which are then split into more and more granular sub-categories.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fairly certain that nobody really has any use for the most granular sub-sectors which contain &gt;160 sectors&#8230; But the high and mid level classifications would be really useful.<\/p>\n<p>You can theoretically grab sector weightings data from Yahoo Finance by ticker code&#8230; But i&#8217;d ideally like to be able to use either Sedol or ISIN to look values up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are others who would like something like this, so before i think about trying to create my own gizmo for it i was wondering if anybody has done anything similar?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/VivicaFromGsyEh\"> \/u\/VivicaFromGsyEh <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1pev9j9\/open_source_or_cheap_alternative_to_gicsicb\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1pev9j9\/open_source_or_cheap_alternative_to_gicsicb\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-37434 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='37434' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-37434 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-37434 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GICS (The Global Industry Classification Standard from MSCI) and ICB (Industry Classification Benchmark from FTSE\/LSE\/Dow Jones) seem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}