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 and Owen Computer Lab. 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]
Thomson ONE Banker
This database pulls some data from multiple databases (I/B/E/S, Worldscope, SDC, Datastream and other Thomson databases) to provide company financials, company profiles, and financial market data. The Deals portion of the database provides current information (including League Tables) on Mergers & Acquisitions, Equity, Bonds and Loans. You get historical research and statistics as well as forecasts. You can analyze the performance of a company individually or compare it to industry averages. [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
- Use of the databases implies acceptance of our Copyright and Licensing Restrictions.
- Need help accessing a resource from off-campus? Take a look at the Troubleshooting Tips page.
- Don't know where to begin? Check out the How do I begin my research? page for information on how to get started researching various topics and use citation information.
- Do you know the name of a database that you'd like to use? Use Databases (A-Z) to locate a known resource and get more information.
- The Databases by Subject page can help direct you to similar resources by topic.
- Additional databases are also available through the Jean & Alexander Heard Library.
- Want to browse electronic journals? Check out the E-Journals (A-Z).
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