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title: Get the ticker symbol corresponding to a company's CIK
description: OpenBB Platform Data Model
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## Implementation details

### Class names

| Model name | Parameters class | Data class |
| ---------- | ---------------- | ---------- |
| `SymbolMap` | `SymbolMapQueryParams` | `SymbolMapData` |

### Import Statement

```python
from openbb_provider.standard_models. import (
SymbolMapData,
SymbolMapQueryParams,
)
```

## Parameters

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<TabItem value="standard" label="Standard">

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| query | str | Search query. |  | True |
| provider | Literal['sec'] | The provider to use for the query, by default None. If None, the provider specified in defaults is selected or 'sec' if there is no default. | sec | True |
</TabItem>

</Tabs>

## Data

<Tabs>
<TabItem value="standard" label="Standard">

| Name | Type | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- |
</TabItem>

<TabItem value='sec' label='sec'>

| Name | Type | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- |
| symbol | str | Symbol representing the entity requested in the data. |
</TabItem>

</Tabs>