Reading FRE Corporate Data of Public Traded Companies from B3.

GetFREData

GetFREData is an R package for downloading information about companies traded at B3, the Brazilian financial exchange. The source of the data is CVM's ftp site and B3's FRE system, the official registration of all major corporate actions.

The data available in FRE is a rich and very useful for corporate finance studies, including the following tables:

• List of stockholders
• All capital issues
• Stock value over years
• Compensation of boards and directors
• Composition of boards and comittes
• Family relations within the company
• List of companies related to family members
• Stock details
• Intangible details
• Auditing details
• Dividends details

Annualy compiled datasets from FRE for all available companies since 2010 are available at https://www.msperlin.com/blog/data/.

Installation

# CRAN (stable)
install.packages('GetFREData')

# github (development)
if (!require(devtools)) install.packages('devtools')
if (!require(GetFREData)) devtools::install_github('msperlin/GetFREData') 

Example of usage

library(GetFREData)
library(tidyverse)

search_company('grendene', 
               cache_folder = tempdir())

l_fre <- get_fre_data(companies_cvm_codes = 19615,
                      fre_to_read = 'last',
                      first_year = 2020,
                      last_year = 2020, 
                      cache_folder = tempdir())
                      
glimpse(l_fre)