Google Finance is an online service offering market prices for securities
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What happened to Home Depot's Stock in 1988?
I was exploring various stocks this morning on Google Finance, and I came across some strange behavior for Home Depot (HD) in 1988. For the entire year, the stock traded incredibly low, and at incredibly high volume. I've seen large spikes in volume…
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Why does Yahoo Finance and Google Finance not match historical prices?
Was working on a different question to ask on here, and realized I might be completely wrong when I realized the historical data on Yahoo and Google are completely different. Therefore I have no idea which is true.
And to confirm I understood…
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How to find historical stock price for a de-listed or defunct company?
With services like Google Finance or Yahoo Finance it is very convenient to find the historical stock price metric of a listed company, but if the company is not listed, I can't find the data.
For example, I want to see the price metrics for…
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How can I compare multiple mutual funds on a single chart at once?
Google finance (finance.google.com, or www.google.com/finance), used to have the ability to compare many stocks or mutual funds (tickers) at once. Now, apparently after they significantly altered and downgraded the site in 2018, I can't seem to…
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German stock exchange, ETR vs FRA
I am looking at the BMW stock for instance in google finance.
Presented are two tickers:…
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How would I use Google Finance to find financial data about LinkedIn & its stock?
According to Google Finance here (at time of writing):
LinkedIn has a price earning ratio of 2104.71 : 1.
It also says it has a market capitalisation of 7.22 billion dollars.
Using this question's answer, does that mean that LinkedIn only earned…
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Why does historical price data not go back all the way on Google Finance?
Compare these links:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:SBAC
http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SBAC?ltr=1
According to Yahoo (the second) this company has been publicly trading for over ten years. (Indeed the IPO was in 1999.) However, Google…
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Will ADR owner enjoy same benefit as common shares holders
Currently, I would like to invest in the stock of HSBC.
Details on Google Finance
Details on Yahoo Finance
I am not sure whether I should purchase from the Hong Kong or US stock market. What I know is that on the US stock market HSBC is listed as an…
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Why does Google Finance show the NASDAQ Composite way up but Yahoo! Finance shows it slightly down?
Google Finance versus Yahoo! Finance. I'm sure the difference is because Google Finance shows a date of November 8 while Yahoo! Finance shows November 9. But aren't the markets closed on Saturday?
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Mutual fund historic prices, seen @ Google and Yahoo, don't match my activity
I'd like to understand, how should I interpret the VFIAX mutual fund historic prices, which can be found @ Google Finance and @ Yahoo!Finance. For example, both these sites show the VFIAX closing price $428.91 on 12/21/2021. However when I look at…
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Can one use Google Finance to backtest (i.e. simulate trades in the past)?
Is it possible to simulate what would have happened if I started investing 10 years ago using Google Finance?
For example, If I started investing in company XYZ where I could have invested £100 a month from 2002 to 2012 and reinvesting any dividend…
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Get Revenue Details in Google Sheets using Google Finance
Recently I learned about GoogleFinance and it's feature to use Google Sheets to provide you with all stock market data using a formulae for eg. =GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG", "price", "1/1/2014", "12/31/2014", "DAILY")
I read the doc that I found,…
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Google Finance gain value incorrect because of currency fluctuation
I'm french, and I bought some stocks in Paris and New York Stock Exchanges. I'm trying to use an online portfolio tracking tool like Google Finance, but the final gain value is incorrect because of currency fluctuation.
Let take a simple example : I…
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Historical Stock Prices of delisted company
With services like Google Finance or Yahoo Finance it is very convenient to find the historical stock price metric of a listed company, but if the company is not listed, I can't find the data.
For example, I want to see the price metrics for Lawson…
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Can GoogleFinance access total return data?
I'd like to be able to access historical total (market) return data from a Google Sheet with the end goal of creating a self-updating rolling return histogram of various asset allocations.
However, it looks like the GoogleFinance functions in Google…
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