MATLAB: How to request gross profit from Bloomberg

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I have a list of securities that I want to collect annual gross profit information for, for a given timespan. How can I use MATLAB to do that?

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In MATLAB, we can request the gross profit for a list of securities using the following code:
Note: this assumes you have already established the Bloomberg connection as variable "c", if you have not yet done so, please follow this guide:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/datafeed/connect-to-bloomberg.html?searchHighlight=connect%20to%20bloomberg&s_tid=doc_srchtitle
>> securities = {'IBM US Equity'}
>> [d,sec] = history(c,securities,'Gross_profit',...
                  '01/01/2010','12/31/2015',{'yearly','actual',...
                  'all_calendar_days','nil_value'},'USD');
You can add other securities to the "securities" list in order to request the data for multiple securities.
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