Research and Course Guides: Company Information: Stock Prices

Stock Prices

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Choose the Company/Markets tab, and choose Company. The Snapshot includes stock activity. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
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Stock Reports section provides access to facts, figures, analyses and projections for approximately 5,500 publicly-held U.S. corporations. Includes the latest share price and price performance chart.

Big Charts
This free website provides interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis and intrady stock screeners, as well as market news and commentary.

Historical Stock Quotes

Most databases and financial web sites provide only a few years of stock price history. Daily stock price history is available in relatively fewer sources.

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Select Companies/Markets, select radio button for "Historical Quotes," select desired date range, and search.
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Yahoo Finance
Find the desired company and open it's record; for pricing, select "Historical Data"; for holdings information, select "Holders."

New York Times (historical) This link opens in a new window
Enter the name of the exchange (NYSE, ASE, Nasdaq, etc.); set the date for the day after your desired market date; under More Search Options -> Document type, select "Stock quote," and search.

Stock Quotes

Yahoo Finance
Search Yahoo Finance for a company and get a list of major competitors.
Google Finance
MSN Money
CNN Money
Reuters Finance

Beta

As it relates to investments, Beta is a statistical measure of the relative volatility of a stock, fund, or other security in comparison with the market as a whole. The beta for the market is 1.00. Stocks with betas above 1.0 are more responsive to the market, but are also more risky investments. Stocks with a beta below 1.0 tend to move in the opposite direction of the market.

Beta is available in the following resources:

S&P Global NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
Search for your company in the Stock Reports. The beta is under Valuation.
Value Line Research Center This link opens in a new window
Data, reports, and analysis on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, special situations, and exchange-traded funds.
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Choose the Companies/Markets tab, choose Company, and search for your company. Look under Reports for a Ratio Comparison Report, which includes the beta for the company and its industry. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
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Yahoo Finance
Search Yahoo Finance for a company and get a list of major competitors.
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Search Yahoo Finance for a company; the Beta is listed on the main screen.