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Stocks Web Sites

  • FT.com provides the full-text of about 1/3 of the current day's issue of Financial Times. It contains a searchable archive of 30 days. It also provides exchange rates, share prices, equity index prices, company briefings, and leading economic indicator data for several countries. The site is free but requires user to register.

  • Multex Investor provides company snapshots, free real-time stock (and major U.S. index) quotes, price charts, and articles from PRN and BW newswire services. It also provides user with stockscreening tools and industry, sector, and company rankings (biggest movers) on over 10,000 equities trading on the NYSE, Nasdaq, AMEX, and OTC Bulletin Board. Detailed financials & ratios are available.

  • Morningstar allows users to search by company name for quicktake reports, which include stock performance, financial statements, market capitalization, dividends, newswires, and more. Screen for a ranking of companies based on a variety of criteria. Review Morningstar shortlists and read Morningstar columns on many investment topics. Includes information on how use benchmarks. Other parts of this site require a $9.95/mo subscription fee.

  • TeleStock: Stock Price Data provides daily prices on stocks traded on U.S. and some European exchages. From January 1995-present. Data can be saved in Quicken or text format. Ticker symbol must be in caps with a country code appended, e.g. MSFT.y (y = U.S. stocks; each country has its own code). Includes access to quotes and charts of more than 60,000 shares, bonds, options, etc. It also contains information about stocks traded on the NYSE/AMEX, NASDAQ, OPRA, NYMEX, COMEX, etc. (Parts of this site require Shockwave Software.)

  • Yahoo! Finance provides histories on U.S. stocks back to the 1970's, downloadable in .xls format. Data available in daily, weekly, or monthly format and available unadjusted or adjusted for splits and dividends. Search by ticker symbol, click Profile, and click Historical Quote Data.

  • Zacks Investment Research specializes in corporate earnings estimates. This site provides free estimates, but charges for analyst reports.

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