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title: profile
description: This page provides information on retrieving the ticker profile from
  FMP using the 'openbb.stocks.fa.profile' function in OpenBBTerminal. Python's pd.DataFrame
  is utilized to organize the stock ticker data.
keywords:
- FMP
- ticker profile
- stock ticker symbol
- openbb.stocks.fa.profile
- fundamental analysis
---

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Get ticker profile from FMP

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/stocks/fundamental_analysis/fmp_model.py#L56)]

```python
openbb.stocks.fa.profile(symbol: str)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| symbol | str | Stock ticker symbol | None | False |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | Dataframe of ticker profile |
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