Stock prices: current & historical (2024)

FAQs

How to see historical stock prices? ›

We can calculate the stock price by simply dividing the market cap by the number of shares outstanding. Let's now think about why we can calculate it this way. The Market Cap (aka Market Capitalization) reflects the market value of the equity of the company.

The stock's price only tells you a company's current value or its market value. So, the price represents how much the stock trades at—or the price agreed upon by a buyer and a seller. The stock's price will climb if there are more buyers than sellers. If there are more sellers than buyers, the price will drop.

There are thousands of websites and mobile apps that will provide both real-time and historical quotes as well as financial metrics across all categories. Sites like Bloomberg and Marketwatch are among the most popular, as well as Yahoo! Finance.

For example, convert "xnas:msft" to a stock data type in cell A1, and in cell B1 you can write the formula =A1. [52 week high] to get the value. You can also configure your workbook to automatically refresh that value as described here.

Based on the stock market's historic performance, there's never necessarily a bad time to buy -- as long as you keep a long-term outlook. The market can be volatile in the short term (even in strong economic times), but it has a perfect track record of seeing positive returns over many years.

Understanding Bear Markets. Stock prices generally reflect how investors expect companies to perform. If a company has lower-than-expected profits, or experiences less growth than analysts predicted, investors may respond by selling the company's stock, which makes the overall price decline.

Once a company goes public and its shares start trading on a stock exchange, its share price is determined by supply and demand in the market. If there is a high demand for its shares, the price will increase.

Which two factors directly affect the price of a stock? ›

The two factors that directly affect the price of a stock are the company's business performance and investor demand for the stock.

Additionally, a web resource for historic stock prices is Yahoo Finance (Stock Prices) - http://finance.yahoo.com/ . Stock prices go back to the 1070s. Begin by doing a search using the ticker symbol, then choose "Historical Prices" from the blue bar on the left; choose daily, weekly, or monthly data.

Search for unclaimed property on Department of Revenue website. There are many resources on the internet. Some resources will trace the history of stock certificates and companies to determine whether or not the stock certificate has any value. Some resources provide research services for a fee.

See the Market Cap under the Price Chart heading. For historical market capitalization for a company: In the command line type a ticker symbol, hit the <Equity> key, type FA, and hit <GO> (e.g. AAPL US <Equity> FA <GO>). See Market Capitalization at the top of the table.

To assist investors in researching these concepts, we provide the websites Market Cap History - at www.MarketCapHistory.com, Shares Outstanding History - at SharesOutstandingHistory.com, and Historical Stock Price - at www.HistoricalStockPrice.com.