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Historical Stock Prices
- Thread starter Hurricane
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siliconinvestor.com is the only other site I know of with historical prices, I don't recall if they adjust for div's or not. What's nicer about their site is that you can also reformat the chronological order of the date display from past to recent, as opposed to yahoo's fixed recent to past display.
Do you mean adjusted for splits, rather than dividends? I was not aware that historical stock prices are adjusted for dividends (maybe returns are, but prices?)
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This may be a recent change to Yahoo! Finance. The historical prices show the actual prices (open, high, low, and close) and an adjusted close that reduces closing prices from before a dividend by the amount of the dividend. When you download this to their spreadsheet, the actual figures are replaced with the adjusted figures.
For example, for XOM on May 1, these are the figures displayed in table form.
Open = 35.32
High = 35.77
Low = 34.99
Close = 35.48
Adjusted Close = 35.23 (because of a dividend on May 9)
The downloaded data is:
Open - 35.07
High = 35.52
Low = 34.74
Close = 35.23
For example, for XOM on May 1, these are the figures displayed in table form.
Open = 35.32
High = 35.77
Low = 34.99
Close = 35.48
Adjusted Close = 35.23 (because of a dividend on May 9)
The downloaded data is:
Open - 35.07
High = 35.52
Low = 34.74
Close = 35.23
And if you meant splits, I'd be curious if yahoo is really adjusting for splits. I haven't checked lately but it used to be yahoo did not adjust for splits. Amibroker, which is what I use, has a tool option to handle the splits that come in from data sources such as yahoo.
Quote from gms:
What's nicer about their site is that you can also reformat the chronological order of the date display from past to recent, as opposed to yahoo's fixed recent to past display.
once you download the data to excel, click on data - sort. You'll be able to display data from past to recent.