# Brand Lookup by Stock Ticker

> Brand Lookup by Stock Ticker is a paid API for AI agents from x402.orthogonal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Retrieves brand data for a company identified by its stock ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL, GOOGL).

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.orthogonal.com/context-dev/brand/retrieve-by-ticker
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/brand-lookup-by-stock-ticker-fd6734c5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bgSI5XN1oYsGN2XT9TT0O

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability brand-lookup-by-stock-ticker-fd6734c5
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the brand information for Apple — their stock ticker is AAPL on NASDAQ?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you have a stock ticker symbol and need to resolve it to a company's brand information. Ideal for enriching financial data pipelines, news processing systems, or portfolio tools that need to map ticker codes to brand identities. Prefer this over manual web search when you need structured, programmatic brand data tied to publicly traded companies.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized ticker symbol returns no data
- Request exceeds timeoutMS threshold, resulting in a 408 abort
- Ticker exists but brand data is unavailable or incomplete
- Non-existent exchange specified for ticker_exchange parameter
- Malformed ticker (too long or invalid characters) rejected by schema validation

## How this service works

Retrieve brand information using a stock ticker symbol. This endpoint looks up the company associated with the ticker and returns its brand data.

## Output

Returns brand data associated with the company identified by the given stock ticker symbol, including company identity and branding details. Data may be less comprehensive when maxSpeed is enabled.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "ticker": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Stock ticker symbol to retrieve brand data for (e.g., 'AAPL', 'GOOGL', 'BRK.A'). Must be 1-15 characters, letters/numbers/dots only."
      },
      "maxSpeed": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Optional parameter to optimize the API call for maximum speed. When set to true, the API will skip time-consuming operations for faster response at the cost of less comprehensive data."
      },
      "timeoutMS": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Optional timeout in milliseconds for the request. If the request takes longer than this value, it will be aborted with a 408 status code. Maximum allowed value is 300000ms (5 minutes)."
      },
      "ticker_exchange": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional stock exchange for the ticker. Defaults to NASDAQ if not specified."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/brand-lookup-by-stock-ticker-fd6734c5/health.json
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- [Other services from x402.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)