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how to look at stock history

by Mrs. Nayeli Sawayn Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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How to Look Up Historical Stock Prices

  • Use MarketWatch’s Historical Lookup Tool. It’s pretty simple to find, say, the stock price of General Electric right now.
  • Find Historical Information on NASDAQ. For any stock listed on the NASDAQ, you can find historical information at NASDAQ.
  • Using Investopedia’s Historical Securities Quotes. In the Markets section of Investopedia...

If you're looking for a historical range of data on an individual security then you can use Investopedia's Markets section to find what you need. In order to navigate to the historical data, enter the ticker symbol of the equity you're looking for into the "Search Company or Symbol" search box on the page.

Full Answer

How do I find historical information on a stock?

For any stock listed on the NASDAQ, you can find historical information at NASDAQ.com. Look up the historical quotes page, and enter the ticker symbols you’re interested in. For instance, you can look for the GOOG stock price (Google), AMZN stock price (Amazon), and more.

How can I get historical stock prices for free?

You can get any stock price on any date for free, quickly and easily. For any stock listed on the NASDAQ, you can find historical information at NASDAQ.com. Look up the historical quotes page, and enter the ticker symbols you’re interested in. For instance, you can look for the GOOG stock price (Google), AMZN stock price (Amazon), and more.

How do I find stocks with an unknown symbol?

is an unknown symbol. Use the symbol finder to find stocks, funds, and other assets. Historical data provides up to 10 years of daily historical stock prices and volumes for each stock. Historical price trends can indicate the future direction of a stock.

How do I use the stockhistory function?

The STOCKHISTORY function syntax has the following arguments: Function returns historical price data about the financial instrument corresponding to this value. Enter a ticker symbol in double quotes (e.g., "MSFT") or a reference to a cell containing the Stocks data type. This will pull data from the default exchange for the instrument.

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Can you see past stock prices?

To find stock prices, click on the Companies/Markets tab on the top of the screen, type in your ticker symbol and indicate whether you want daily or monthly prices. Prices are available for the last 3 years. A web resource for historic stock prices is Yahoo Finance (Stock Prices) - http://finance.yahoo.com/ .

What is a stock history?

The STOCKHISTORY function retrieves historical data about a financial instrument and loads it as an array, which will spill if it's the final result of a formula. This means that Excel will dynamically create the appropriate sized array range when you press ENTER.

How do I view stock history in Excel?

Excel STOCKHISTORY FunctionSummary. ... Retrieve stock price information.Array of stock price information.=STOCKHISTORY (stock, start_date, [end_date], [interval], [headers], [properties], ...)stock - A ticker symbol in double quotes ("MSFT", "AAPL", "GOOG", etc.). ... Excel 365.

How do I turn on stock history in Excel?

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Getting Historical Quotes on Securities

If you're looking for a historical range of data on an individual security then you can use Investopedia's Markets section to find what you need.

Getting Historical Quotes on Indices

If you're just looking for the three major U.S. indices, then the chart on our Markets Today page features historical pricing for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq.

Where Else to Find Historical Quotes

There are several other resources online to find historical price quotes. Online brokerage sites such as eTrade and TD Ameritrade or apps like Robinhood will have both real-time and historical quote data for customers and usually limited access for non-customers as well.

Find Historical Information on NASDAQ

For any stock listed on the NASDAQ, you can find historical information at NASDAQ.com. Look up the historical quotes page, and enter the ticker symbols you’re interested in.

Use Historical Data Wisely

As you do your research, be sure to use the data you find wisely. Past performance can definitely give you a strong indicator of how stable and strong security is, but nothing is guaranteed.

Is a stock overvalued if it has a higher pe ratio than historical data?

Meaning a stock can be considered overvalued if it’s at a higher pe ratio than historical stock data would suggest. And undervalued inversely.

Can you use historical stock data to buy undervalued stocks?

But, gist is that you can use historical stock data to try and buy undervalued stocks for your portfolio. Sometimes, you might develop a strategy to invest and historical stock data can help you back test this strategy. You can even use historical stock data to understand trends in company of your interest.

Does Morningstar show historical stock data?

Morningstar works great for looking at historical stock data. However, you must click on different tabs to get to the information you want to see. PE ratio is at a different place, Dividend trends are somewhere else etc.

Primary arguments

Stock - the ticker symbol used to retrieve historical prices. Stock should be supplied as a text value in double quotes ("") when hardcoded, for example, "MSFT", "GOOG", "AAPL", "TSLA", etc. Results are retrieved from the default exchange for the instrument.

Properties

The table below shows the additional information the STOCKHISTORY function can retrieve, which are described as properties. Properties are specified with the numeric code seen in the "Code" column, and can appear in any order. Note that by default, STOCKHISTORY will retrieve Date and Close.

Notes

If data is not available for the period requested, STOCKHISTORY returns a #VALUE! error.

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