Entering HPQ into that search and I get a tiny 10-day chart and the option of going to their charting area. One more stop: I’m a big fan of the Wall Street Journal, and they have a “quotes and research” search option right on the home page. The problem I have with the Yahoo charts is that they use a logarithmic scale, so the difference between $0 and $10 is far, far greater than the difference between $50 and $70 in stock value, which greatly distorts the actual data. In fact, Yahoo Finance offers up an additional five years of historical data: For many companies, you can actually find this sort of historical information on the “investor relations” area on their site. Google isn’t the only place to find this sort of information, however. You can see that the highest stock value was back during the dotcom explosion, at the beginning, around 1999 or so, and since then it’s tanked, then come back about 50%, to close at 39.83 today.
I’ll click on Max so I can see how the company did for the last 35 years: Notice on the top left the different Zoom ranges you can select: 1 day, 5 days, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, year to date, 1 year, five years, 10 years and “Max”. By default, you get a very narrowly focused chart on the relevant financial information page: One of the newest and most interesting the newly revamped Google Finance (Nasdaq: GOOG), which offers historical stock data back forty years.įor example, let’s consider how Hewlett-Packard (Nasdaq: HPQ) has done in that time period.
Ordinarily I would answer that there are few places you can find long-term historical data online, but in fact there are a number of interesting places for your research.
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