Information Guides -- Stock Prices
Stock Prices
Beta
Corporate Actions (Dividends
& Stock Splits)
Market Indexes
Stock Prices
- Companies>Prices
- Data (downloadable to Excel)
- Interactive Charts
- Time Series
- Technical Analysis
Yahoo! Finance Historical Prices
- Stock prices (daily, weekly, monthly) and dividends available going back 20-30 years
- Download into Excel
- Note: closing prices are automatically adjusted for stock splits and dividends
Bloomberg
- Historical stock prices = Ticker Symbol<EQUITY>HP<GO>
- Historical stock prices graph = Ticker Symbol<EQUITY>GP<GO>
- Several options for charting company stock performance going out 5 years
- Can select up to three other companies to compare their performance against your company
Beta
You can locate a company's recent beta using many of the sources we have identified in this research aid, however, it is usually difficult to reconcile the calculation. For accuracy purposed you might want to generate your own calculations.
Secondary Sources
You can locate recent beta in all of the following sources
Bloomberg
- Raw and Adjusted Beta: Ticker Symbol<EQUITY>BETA<GO>
S&P Company Profile
S&P Stock Report
Reuters Investor Stock Overview
Yahoo! Finance Key Statistics
ValueLine
Corporate Actions (Dividends & Stock Splits)
Bloomberg
- Dividends/Split History = Ticker Symbol<EQUITY>DVD<GO>
- Corporate Actions link
- reports 5 years of dividend payments
Market Indexes
- Indices>Prices/Performance/Constituents
Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation
- History of returns of U.S. capital markets from 1926 to the present
- Print only- BUS REF HG 4915 .S86
- Historical and current performance data; download into Excel
- Historical and current performance data; download into Excel
Bloomberg
- World Equity Indices = WEI<GO>
Securities Industry Association
- Research/Statistics/Survey section - historical annualized performance data for the DJIA, D&P 500, NYSE Composite, NASDAQ Composite, and more
- Most of the data is not in Excel format
