Question 521560: how do i find the previous day's closing price for stocks?
Answer by bucky(2189)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! I'm not sure what this is doing in this forum. But in answer to your question, go to www.yahoo.com. When this page opens, look down the column on the left side until you find "Finance". Click on it to open the Yahoo Finance page.
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On this Finance page, notice the horizontal blue bar. Just above that blue bar, you should see the blue tab that says "Home". This means that you are on the home page for Yahoo finance. Notice also that there is a graph showing the current DOW Jones industrial average. If the market is open, the graph will progress throughout the day. After hours the graph will be for the entire previous business day on the exchange. The same can be said for the NASDAQ exchange if you select it. Also for the Standard & Poors 500.
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To find a specific stock price, you must enter the stock symbol (this is a 1 to 5 letter symbol that identifies the fund) into the white box on the blue bar. Once you have done that click on the "Get Quotes" button and this will open a page that has information regarding that particular stock. For most stocks (mutual funds excluded since their value is calculated only once a day after the market closes) the information will be in a table that shows the current price. However, if you look down the table you should see a listing that says "Prev Close". It will give the closing price of that stock for the previous day that the stock exchange was open for business.
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If you do not know the stock symbol for the particular stock you are looking for, look on the blue bar for the words "Finance Search". Click on those words and you will open a page with a finance search bar. Type in the name of the company followed by the words "stock symbol" and you should find the letter symbol that you need to enter into the previously described box that has the "Get Quotes" button next to it. For example, on the Finance Search page, type in Apple stock symbol. You should open a listing that shows the Apple stock symbol is AAPL. If you do the same with General Electric (search on General Electric stock symbol) you will find that its symbol is (surprise) GE. Search on "Google stock symbol" and you find that it is GOOG.
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You can play around with the Yahoo finance page and you will soon get a sense of all the information that is available to you on individual stocks. Hopefully this will help you with your math problem, whatever it might be.
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