# Security Details

Get investment data for a specified set of securities and use the information returned to build single-investment portfiles and compare investments. {.sub-title___devsite}

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- [Overview](#overview)
- [Capabilities](#capabilities)
- [API Visualization](#api-visualization)

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### Overview

The Security Details API allows you to dynamically obtain a variety of investment data for a specified set of securities. This is ideal for building single-investment profiles. The API is highly configurable and has built-in market logic to serve relevant data for different investment types depending on the market, language and currency requested by the user. 
 
The API can support a variety of different use cases, from on screen fund fact sheets to more advanced investment comparison workflows.  This API offers optimal response time and performance, while eliminating the need to download and store data bundles separately.


### Capabilities

The API has the following capabilities:

 - [Investment Details](/direct-web-services/documentation/api-reference/security-details/investment-details)
 - [Investment Compare](/direct-web-services/documentation/api-reference/security-details/investment-compare)

### API Visualization

For an example of how to visualize output, see the [Investment Compare](/direct-web-services/api-visualization-library/api-visualization-library/api-visualization-library/page?path=%2Fdocs%2Ftools-investmentcompare--story-details) tool in the API Visualization Library.

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