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What does a stock's quoted value represent?
The quote price is simply the last price at which a trade completed.
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Mutual fund historic prices, seen @ Google and Yahoo, don't match my activity
VFIAX closed at 421.39 on 12/20/2021 (both Google and Yahoo show this). I suspect that Vanguard filled your order on the 20th, not the 21st. It's possible that the funds were settled the next day - ...
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Why does ExxonMobil's balance sheet show more liabilities than assets?
You are reading the balance sheet wrong.
Everything Joe says is completely correct, but more fundamentally you have missed out on a huge pile of assets. "Current assets" is only short term assets. ...
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How does Yahoo finance adjust stock data for splits and dividends?
Should be noted that pacoverflow's answer is wrong. Yahoo back-adjusts all the previous (not current or future) values based on a cumulative adjustment factor. So if there's a dividend ex-date on ...
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Last trade is bought? or sold?
When there is a trade the shares were both bought and sold. In any trade on the secondary market there has to be both a buyer and a seller for the trade to take place.
So in "lasttradesize" a buyer ...
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How to find historical stock price for a de-listed or defunct company?
Such data is typically only available from paid sources due to the amount of research involved in determining the identity of delisted securities, surviving entities in merger scenarios, company name ...
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Why does ExxonMobil's balance sheet show more liabilities than assets?
Exxon Mobil is one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Their annual earnings are typically in the $10s of billions of dollars. They have revenues in the hundreds of billions of dollars ...
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Yahoo's finance data for dividends is flat out wrong for CBA.AX. Why is that?
Atypically, Yahoo appears to show a grossed-up dividend (i.e. the dividend, adjusted for franking credits) rather than the actual dividend paid to a shareholder.
As at 30 Apr 2018, Yahoo shows a ...
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How websites like Google have access to stock market data?
At the bottom of Yahoo! Finance's S & P 500 quote
Quotes are real-time for NASDAQ, NYSE, and NYSE MKT. See also delay
times for other exchanges. All information provided "as is" for
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Volatility indicator
Beta is the measure of volatility and typically available on most stock and often mutual funds information pages.
For a full explanation of Beta
The chart for FB on yahoo finance:
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How websites like Google have access to stock market data?
To quote their disclaimer:
Data is provided by financial exchanges and may be delayed as specified by financial exchanges or our data providers. Google does not verify any data and disclaims any ...
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Where do online stock brokers get their real-time data from?
Generally Google gets their data,
directly from the exchanges (Nasdaq, NYSE). This is really expensive
-- tens of thousands of dollars a month just for the license from the exchange, and lots of ...
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Why do some services list an IPO date that is well after historical price data you can find elsewhere?
The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company was established in 1902 as a private company. It first raised public funds around 1903 but had a limited shareholder base. By around 1929, it was ...
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Volatility indicator
To calculate it yourself you need to calculate the standard deviation (or variance but that is just the standard deviation squared) of the returns. Unfortunately the returns on stocks are distributed ...
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Apple stock split posting in yahoo finance
Stock splits are generally automatically handled by stock markets, brokerages, and online tools. (I've never had to handle one manually.)
So the data in Yahoo Finance will automatically be adjusted. ...
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The dividend yield of AMC is reported differently on different financial info websites. How do I know which is correct?
For the past 5 quarters the dividend has been 20 cents per quarter. So based on a price of $4.46, the yield would be 17.95% which is what Robinhood says (raspberry sound!).
However, the dividend has ...
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Why does Yahoo Finance list the 10y T note (TNX) at 1/10 of CBOE and Google Finance?
The CBOE states, in an investor's guide to Interest Rate Options:
The Options’ Underlying Values
Underlying values for the option contracts are
10 times the underlying Treasury yields (rates)—
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Stock Dividends & Splits: Are they always applied over night?
I've never seen a dividend, split or other corporate action during the day, but I have seen trade suspended a few times when something big happened.
The market opening price is not in general the ...
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I got the tip to invest in CSSPX. When I search the symbol at Stocks.app (Yahoo Finance) there are 3 hits. What exactly is the difference?
The difference is that they are traded on different stock exchanges, and are traded in different currencies. For example, the screenshot for ACWX shows that it is traded on the NASDAQ (US dollars), ...
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Stock trading models that use fundamental analysis, e.g. PEG ratios?
One idea: If you came up with a model to calculate a "fair price range" for a stock, then any time the market price were to go below the range it could be a buy signal, and above the range it could be ...
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Why does Yahoo! Finance report different prices for the same index?
Are you sure you're using the same date range? If you're using Max, then you're not, as ^FTMC goes back to 12/1/1985 while ^GDAXI only goes back to 11/1/1990. If I enter a custom date range of 11/1/...
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T-mobile stock: difference between TMUSP vs TMUS
The difference between TMUSP and TMUS is that the "with P" ticker is for a TMobile Preferred Stock offering. The "without P" ticker is for TMobile common stock. The difference between the apparent ...
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Yahoo Finance not showing detailed information for foreign stocks
The cause of incomplete/inaccurate financial data's appearing on free sites is that it is both complicated and expensive to obtain and parse these data.
Even within a single country, different pieces ...
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find stock composition of a publicly traded fund
The big websites, Yahoo and the like, only give the 10 biggest positions of any fund.
Download the annual report of the fund, go to page 18, you will find the positions on the 31st of December.
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View asset/holdings breakdown within fund
according to the SEC:
Shareholder Reports
A mutual fund and a closed-end fund respectively must provide
shareholders with annual and semi-annual reports 60 days after the end
of the fund’s ...
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Why does historical price data not go back all the way on Google Finance?
Google Finance and Yahoo Finance have been transitioning their API (data interface) over the last 3 months. They are currently unreliable. If you're just interested in historical price data, I would ...
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Splits shown in historic data in Google Finance vs Yahoo Finance
Actually there was no split in GOOG on 27 Mar 2014.
What happened is as follows:
Google Inc (at the time, now called Alphabet) had class A shares trading as NASDAQ:GOOG. In early 2014 it announced ...
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What website provided R-Square value of a stock?
R-Squared is a measure of a particular kind of performance of a regression analysis. It is highly dependent on the time period and data frequency of the regression in question, to say nothing of the ...
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Does Yahoo finance adjust ETF's historical data for splits and dividends? (not stocks or shares)
The simple answer here is that Yahoo's data suppliers have got it wrong. It appears to have adjusted it twice and it's disturbing that such an obvious error still remains in there after almost 4 ...
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Book Value From Price/Book
Your math is correct, and gives you book value per share. So to get the total "book value" you need to multiply by the number of shares outstanding.
Since FB has about 2.98B shares outstanding, that ...
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