Sources of prices, charts, historical data, etc!

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While I use some of the cited resources in my own investing work, do remember the old saying about things being worth what you pay for them. I have, before now, found bad data on the net. I saw Coke 'available' at a P/E of 19 once... wish it had been true!

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I use it for charts of British company prices

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For charts of US companies, I used to like the following. If it doesn't work when you try it, I'd suggest the Yahoo quotes service. Once you have the period set to whatever you want, just edit the stock ticker part of the "http://...." string to get a similar chart for a different company. I've set it up with IBM as an example. This site uses a logarithmic scale for the price axis... if one cm at the bottom of the chart means that the price has risen 10%, then one cm at the top will mean another 10% rise. A straight line on the chart means a constant growth rate, e.g. (don't we wish) at, say, six months' intervals: $2,$4,$8,$16 (doubling in each time period).
Click here for IBM chart

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Help, please? Do you know of a good site for earnings estimates for US companies? I'm looking for something which is free, doesn't require registrations or force cookies on me, and will give me actual earnings for the most recent fully reported year and estimates for the next three.
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I'm a (generally) happy Compuserve customer. One of the things I used to use there EVERY weekday was a service to check Wall Street stock prices. A quick and easy routine fetched Hi/Lo/Close/Volume figures for me, records them in datafiles (one for each company), and presents the information in a spreadsheet.

The same product used to be available free to the internet community. It is not perfect... but it does a good job for me. (And, just to brag for a moment, it lets me see easily that when I first wrote this, the gain on things I sold Jly'96-May'97 would have been 28%, whereas the gain in things I bought over that period was 52%) The program was free, and access to the quotes server is free. It was offered by Wall St Access, sadly, they no longer offer anything similar even to their clients.

I have been using Personal Stock Tracker Gold from www.dtlink.com for about 8 weeks, and think it will be a satisfactory replacement. See more about this at my main investor's page.

If you used Stocktracker (via Compuserve), you 'collected' files with price & volume histories on your hard disc. I have a program which will display the histories of up to 48 companies at once.
Click here to look at information about that, and another for a quick look at chart and table of recent results of one company. (You see some interesting patterns if you plot related companies together with my MultiChart program, e.g. SLB, HAL and PTEN together. They are all in oilfield services, but range from the "great grand-daddy" to a little upstart.)

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I'm told that there is a 'Stock Quotes' button at
Yahoo which gives access to 5yr histories, news releases, EDGAR filings, etc, free.

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For web sites where you can get quotes on some or all of the various European stock exchanges: London, Copenhagen, etc, try
www.pcquote-europe.co.uk/free/stocks/uk.html
or
www.oakland.edu/~dmdavis/pleasure.html

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Charts of US companies...
I'm told that with the following you can set up preferences to give you daily quotes for any month. The site pushed a lot of cookies at me and wasn't easy to follow when I didn't download graphics.
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Someone asked in a usergroup where he could find historical stock data with OPEN, HIGH, LOW, CLOSE data in Excel format. He hoped to generate candle stick charts. He was referred to Wall Street Analyst (about $45) said to have a great historical database. Historical data for US and Canadian stocks, plus mutual funds. You also get a technical analysis program. I'm afraid the URL/ FTP got lost somewhere along the line. Maybe someone could find it with www.filez.com, and let me know?

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'The' Financial Times (London, of course) has a website. (It can give you stock prices, among other things.)
Click here for the FT site.

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Earnings estimates, in charts available for over 3,800 companies and over 100 indices, updated weekly. Prices given include the current delayed quote. Free at MarketPlayer

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You can get free stock quotes, charts, news headlines, company profiles, company research reports, and info on options, currencies, futures and the markets from
PC Quote . You must sign up for MarketSmart Delayed for delayed quotes or MarketSmart real-time for real-time quotes (real time costs a fee required by each exchange you wish to get real-time quotes from).

With this service you can also maintain five portfolios of up to 20 symbols each for free, or you can play Final Bell, located on the home page, that is a trading simulator (sort of a stock market game).

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Historical financials on companies listed on the London Stock Exchange: Go to

http://www.corporateinformation.com/ukcorp.html From there, pick up the link to Hemmington Scott's UK Equities Direct. It has summary financials for the last four or five years.

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Quotes and 52 week highs, etc... (No charts, I think)

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20 minute delayed stock quotes, but free:

www.secapl.com

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For links to daily closing prices and yields of stocks, NOT graphs visit

http://www.corporateinformation.com/uscorp.html.

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Several historical data sites are listed at:
http://www.investorguide.com/Historical.htm

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Free historical data of NASDAQ prices, exportable to Metastock and txt available at..

http://www.stockwiz.com/

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[TKB comment: If you are after something more complex, using software in your machine to automate some routine downloads, you might be interested in the following. This was snipped from atgsystems site...]

Open Dialog Quotes. This is a FREE service. With Open Dialog
Quotes you can:



See stock prices change in real-time on the screen during
trading hours. (20 minutes delayed)



Create your own custom portfolio.
Calculate profit/ loss for each stock on-the-fly.
Calculate profit/ loss for the portfolio on-the-fly.
Calculate total net worth on-the-fly.
Customize the display by selecting from the following fields:
   open, high, low, last, previous, change, volume, size,
   time, indication, eps, shares, cost, value, and p/l.

To run Open Dialog Quotes you need:
  1) Windows 95, Windows NT, or Windows 3.1(with Win32s)
  2) A direct non-proprietary Internet connection. (not AOL, WebTV, etc.)
  3) Open Dialog client software which is available FREE!
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Access to free delayed daily market reports, quotes, charts, fundamentals, and stock reports, and more at:

Click here

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From: robertsc@cs.cmi.com... If you're looking for free/ shareware programs to get quotes from the internet and track stock prices, click here . In amongst lots of other stuff, you'll find "Stock programs". There is a large list of stock and news programs and urls. Each program features a review of features and tells you for which operating system it is made.

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Hundreds of historical data files covering foreign markets, cash commodities, market technicals, financial and economic issues are available for free at our web site. Easily download the files and use in spreadsheets or with a little manipulation, import into most technical analysis packages. Some are directly importable.

New highs, lows, advancing issues, gold, silver, hogs, exchange rates, CPI, PPI, interest rates, GDP, unemployment, savings rates and *many* others are available. We are constantly adding more, all free..

Joe
Tsunami Software: providers of investment information and tools.
Click here
tsunami@onramp.net

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[tkb: urls not tried...] Someone asked in a newsgroup for current and historical stock quotes that also include the Dividend/Share and % Yield fields. He was told that
Click here gives the CURRENT dividend per share and yield. They also provide EPS and P/E, and
Click here gives many ratios. For more sources, see US Corporate Information page at
Click here [TKB: That site had LOTS of links for you!]

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UK Equities Direct has some nice information for British stocks, including stock charts, major owners, auditors, officers, summary financials, earnings estimates, etc. It can be reached from the UK Corporate Information page of....
Click here

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For UK companies: There was a LOT of stuff here... and may still be... but recently I haven't been able to get charts, which is what I go for.
Charts, quotes, fundamentals, and news on all LSE traded stocks. An International Financial Directory and Guide. Global Investment Information, Books and Software for the Individual Investor.

If you are looking for a chart of a particular company, say ICI, then go to the 'Quotes -I' section, select ICI, and from there you can get the chart.
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Alternatively, if you know the code, use the following, replacing AWA with what you need.... http://www.dbc.com/cgi-bin/htx.exe/squote?SOURCE=blq%2Fusawww&TICKER=AWA-LS&tables=chart_table&format=fractions

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For US stocks, I once liked the following. If you don't routinely load graphics, don't be put off... persevere! You can have (printable) charts for periods from 3 months to 3 years. NYSE and NASDAQ companies are covered, in spite of the URL. At this site, the vertical scale is linear.

WARNING, WARNING....

I'm sorry to have to report a problem with this site. I bought shares 5% too high due to a printout which said something was trading around 75 when in fact it was around 50. I placed a limit order to buy at 70... which was, obviously, executed pretty quickly! The problem is subtle: The chart I'd called down looked fine on my screen... and when I printed it out, it looked roughly the same... but the numbers on the left and right scales had changed!! I've never seen anything like this before. I reported it to the webmaster several times, but there was no reply. I had the problems while using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (because it was bundled with the machine concerned, and I didn't want to risk upsetting anything by trying to change to Netscape, which I prefer to use, and do use on other machines.) The problem doesn't seem to arise with charts of 12 months, but it seems to be a repeatable 'feature' with charts of 24 or 36 months. I print with the HP LaserJet Series II driver that came with my system. (Win 95)

Once in a while, I get a 'URL Not Found' message.... but sometimes it seems okay a moment later. Other times repeated attempts are not rewarded.
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