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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…
AGamePlayer
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What does a stock's quoted value represent?
According to Yahoo Finance, a single stock in Alphabet Inc. is worth 898.7 USD as of this writing.
Question: What does the price of $898.7 reflect?
I can imagine the price is one of the following options:
Highest bidding price
Lowest asking…
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How does Yahoo finance adjust stock data for splits and dividends?
When a data provider like Yahoo finance says that the closing price is adjusted for splits and dividends, what does that mean? A split will increase/ decrease the price by the split ratio, and a dividend will decrease the price by the amount of the…
Victor123
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What does "/" and "^" mean in ticker symbols? How to translate these symbols into yahoo?
I have downloaded a complete list of all NYSE stock symbols from the NASDAQ website here. As it turns out, many of these symbols are not recognized by the yahoo finance page. In particular, there are ticker symbols that use "^" and "/" (eg. VALE/A…
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Why pay for end-of-day historical prices?
Recently I've started gathering some end-of-day (EOD) prices data for my testing. The first obvious place where such data is freely available is Yahoo Finance site. However I've noticed that many data providing companies sell this data, and not so…
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How websites like Google have access to stock market data?
I was wondering, How websites such as Yahoo finance and Google can access market data? Do they buy API from somewhere?
omidh
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Volatility indicator
Is there an indicator for the volatility of a stock?
When I say indicator I mean like P/E ration, book value etc.
If yes, where can I find it? I follow yahoo finance by the way.
The Strong Programmer
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Bond prices: Why is a high yield sometimes too good to be true?
Thank you for taking the time to explain me this.
I'm looking at bonds prices at Yahoo Finance (see attached image)
And it seems to good to be true: A-rated bonds at YTM rates of 11% and more. What am I missing here? Can I just go and buy these…
cruvadom
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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…
Albatrosspro
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What's the most correct way to calculate market cap for multi-class companies?
Yahoo finance shows GOOG as having a market cap of $492.97B, while GOOGL has a market cap of $510.18B.
What's Google's total market cap? Is it really $1,003B?
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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…
Cheok Yan Cheng
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How to calculate PE ratios for indices such as DJIA?
I want to record Dow Jones Industrial Average's PE. Yahoo Finance gives N/A [1]:
>>> import y_finance
>>> print y_finance.get_price_earnings_ratio('^DJI')
N/A
So:
How to calculate the PE for indices such as DJI?
How do you weight each PE of a…
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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?
Craig W
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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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