Looking for Google’s stock symbol? It’s GOOG on Nasdaq. Click here for Google’s stock price or search for it on Google.

Want info on a publicly traded stock or mutual fund? Enter one or more NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, or mutual fund ticker symbols and Google will return the latest stock price (with a 15-minute delay for NASDAQ or a 20-minute delay for AMEX and NYSE), along with an intra-day chart, the daily high and low, the volume traded, the company’s market capitalization, as well as a link to other financial information.

Click on the stock symbol link to see financial information, which may include the price of the last trade, the range of prices for the day and for the year, a one-year target price estimate, the previous day’s closing price, the opening price for the day, the volume of shares traded during the day, the PE radio, dividends per share, the dividend date, and a chart.

Note: Entering a ticker symbol in the search box and then clicking on I’m Feeling Lucky will not take you to that symbol’s financial information page. Instead, Google displays the first search results, whose link appears just below the box enclosing the stock information link.

Click on the “Stock quotes” link to view a chart for each stock symbol in your query.

You can also retrieve stock information via the stocks: search operator. For example, [ stock:brcm brcd ] will return a link to stock information about Broadcom Corporation and Brocade Communications System.

Exercises

This problem set gives you practice in obtaining financial information for US publicly traded companies. For hints and answers to selected problems, see the Solutions page.

1. Obtain a chart of Ebay’s stock price for the past 5 years by entering Ebay’s stock symbol, ebay, clicking on the link “EBAY” and then clicking on “5y” under today’s chart.
2. Find current financial information for Yahoo and Amazon.
3. Using the similar pages feature, find competitors to google.com that are run by public companies. Check whether their stock prices have been climbing or dropping in the past three months.

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