http://www.brcc.edu/stockprices.html

  
 

Researching
Stock Prices

 
 


Blue Ridge Community College
Houff Library

  

Yahoo
  Go to Yahoo Finance at: http://screener.finance.yahoo.com/newscreener.html.  Comprehensive source for business
 information. It is the best of the quote services, providing graphs, news & research. You will then be able to do any
of the following:

Download to Spreadsheet Add to Portfolio - View Comparison Chart - View All Charts
Get streaming real-time quotes - FREE trial.
Historical Quotes - Yahoo! resource allows you to imput a date and find a security's exact closing price on that day. Also available at BigCharts.
Other Sites To Try:
Big Charts  - BigCharts is the world's most comprehensive and easy-to-use investment research web site providing access to professional-level research tools like interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis, intraday stock screeners, as well as market news & commentary.  These tools are combined with an interface that incorporates compelling graphics and intuitive navigation to make your research experience productive, yet entertaining and fun. Best of all, BigCharts is a FREE service supported entirely by site sponsors. 
 
Bio-Portfolio - Online - SEC Filings. Using www.bioportfolio.com you can access global stock prices
and Biotech/Health Funds directly from Nasdaq-Amex, Barcharts, CBS MarketWatch, etc
 
Dow Jones.com - Stock quotes, breaking news and business-specific.
 
Hoover's Online  - Database of information on more than 50,000 of the largest or fastest-growing public and private U.S. companies.
Information provided includes company address, number of employees, key people, financial data, news items and selected Web links to company Web site, SEC filings, and current stock prices.  Selected material is available to non-subscribers. They provide a list of IPOs On Deck. Their StockScreener allows you to search using up to 20 performance criteria.
 
Investing for Beginners - Good info on Blue Chip stocks and investing generally.

Investor's Business Daily

JustQuotes - An excellent source for investment information. Enter a company name or ticker symbol and go to a page that links to current stock quotes, historical quotes (history of daily prices expressed in decimals or fractions for the past year), charts, news items, earnings estimates, SEC filings, company profiles, options quotes, and discussion groups. You can also search popular newspapers and business publications for information on the company in question. The home page links to general market information regarding market news, most active issues, stock splits, IPOs, earnings announcements, insider trading, and mutual funds, as well as popular investment column.

Kiplinger  - For eight decades, the Kiplinger organization has led the way in personal finance and business forecasting.
 
Mergent Horizon seamless capabilities for finding, filtering, and organizing information about companies and industries.

Mergent Online info on over 35,000 publicly traded companies including company histories, annual reports, years of stock prices and more

 Publicly Traded Companies Stock Prices
Sources of free information on-line (such as company profiles, analysts reports,
stock prices, eps projections, and more) into easy-to use menus for each ...
Quicken.com - Tip - Your instructor's favorite!

Quote.Com - A free website for investors where people can get quotes, charts, & news on specific stocks and the equity markets in general.
 
Silicon Investor: Quotes  - Great source for stock information. To get to the database, just type company name or stock symbol in search box in upper left corner of the main page. The database for historical stock prices goes back to 1968. Once you've brought up a stock you can get as many as 200 days of records at a time. The columns can be sorted by date, opening price, high, low, closing, adjusted volume, and adjusted closing price.

Stockmaster.com - Quote charts and a link to top stocks.

Tradingcharts.com - charts thousands of stocks daily, plotting technical indicators such as opening stock price, closing quotations and volume of trading
in elegant graphical charts. Each stock price chart can form the basis of technical analysis which provides an interpretation of stock market trends.
For historical stock price data, simply click on any bar on any chart to see complete open - high - low - close - volume ( OHLC ) data for that date.

USA Today: Money - Updated daily

 

 


6/17/08