Historical Market & Stock Data
This guide includes resources for locating historical stock prices, historical beta, historical market indices, and historical corporate actions such as dividend and stock splits. The databases and links may also be helpful in locating other historical company information.
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Top Databases
BloombergLocate real-time and historical information on economic conditions, market data and public companies worldwide. Information is available on governments, mortgages, money markets, bonds, commodities, stocks, and currencies. This resource is used in most companies and institutions that manage equities, commodities, and currencies. Two dedicated Bloomberg terminals with full API capabilities which allow for custom downloading and creation of reports are available in the Walker Management Library. Online tutorials are available on the terminals and Bloomberg now offers certification in different financial management areas with tests that can be taken on the Bloomberg terminals. [more]
CRSP
This database is made available by the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC). Produced by the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Securities Prices, the CRSP database contains daily and monthly price, volume, and return data for NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ stocks. [more]
Datastream Advance
Datastream provides historical data for financial markets worldwide. It also contains an extensive collection of historical country economic and time series data. [more]
Morningstar Cost of Capital Resources Center
Industry Analysis module, originally published as Ibbotson's Cost of Capital, reports by SIC code detailed statistics for sales and profitability, capitalization, beta, valuation multiples, financial ratios, equity returns, capital structure and more.
SBBI (Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation) Valuation essentials provides data from Ibbotson's Valuation Yearbooks from 1999 to the present.
Company Betas module features the analysis found in Ibbotson's Beta Book, current and historical data for 5,000 companies.
International Cost of Capital module includes the "International Cost of Capital Report" with estimates of the cost of equity for 170 countries from US and international investors; the "International Equity Risk Premia Report" provides historical equity risk premia in $USD and local currency for 16 countries dating back to 1970. [more]
SBBI (Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation) Valuation essentials provides data from Ibbotson's Valuation Yearbooks from 1999 to the present.
Company Betas module features the analysis found in Ibbotson's Beta Book, current and historical data for 5,000 companies.
International Cost of Capital module includes the "International Cost of Capital Report" with estimates of the cost of equity for 170 countries from US and international investors; the "International Equity Risk Premia Report" provides historical equity risk premia in $USD and local currency for 16 countries dating back to 1970. [more]
S&P NetAdvantage
Standard and Poor's Net Advantage provides fulltext access to a variety of S&P publications including the electronic full text versions of the Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys. Covers 52 different industries (usually the larger industries like Retail, Apparel and Footwear, Airlines, Computers, Biotech, Pharmaceuticals, etc) and the reports are updated every 6 months. The surveys contain information about current trends, how the industry operates, key ratios and statistics for each industry, and then how to analyze a company in a particular industry. The last section provides comparative financial data in tabular format for the top companies in the industry. S&P NetAdvantage also includes Stock Reports, Corporation Records as well as detailed information on mutual funds, bonds, dividends, earnings, and a directory of corporations and executives. [more]
Thomson ONE Banker
Pulling data from multiple sources (e.g. I/B/E/S, Worldscope, SDC, Datastream), this database provides company financials, profiles, financial market data, and forecasts. Research portion includes analyst reports. Deals portion provides current Mergers & Acquisitions information including league tables, Equity, Bonds & Loans. [more]
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Books, Reference & Print Resources
Daily Stock Price Record
Ibbotson Beta Book
World Stock Exchanges Factbook
American Stock Exchange REF HG 4915 .S66
New York Stock Exchange REF 4915 .S664
NASDAQ REF 4915 .S665
New York Stock Exchange REF 4915 .S664
NASDAQ REF 4915 .S665
Ibbotson Beta Book
REF HG 4028 .V3 I123
Betas back to 2001.
Betas back to 2001.
World Stock Exchanges Factbook
REF 4551 W675
45 Exchanges, 25 years of data.
45 Exchanges, 25 years of data.
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Internet Resources & Websites
Yahoo! Finance - Historical Prices Click on Historical Prices in the company profile. Stock prices (daily, weekly, monthly) and dividends available going back 20-30 years. Download into Excel. Try Yahoo's new charting for more access and control.
Dow Jones Industrial Averages
Historical and current performance data. Can download to Excel. "Dow Data" includes interesting historical markers.
S&P Indices
Historical performance data.
World Stock Exchanges Factbook
You can often find articles about local businesses in the local newspaper.
Securities Industry Association
Research/Statistics/Survey section - historical annualized performance data for the DJIA, D&P 500, NYSE Composite, NASDAQ Composite, and more.
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Additional Information
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