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I've found their financial page to be one of the best free offerings around. Some of the data and its update frequency are additional monthly fees with my broke

I've found their financial page to be one of the best free offerings around. Some of the data and its update frequency are additional monthly fees with my brokerage. Now if only i could convince it to go to https://finance.yahoo.com/ https://finance.yahoo.com/ instead of https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ when in the office it'd be great.

donatj 4y ago
Oh man. I forgot about Yahoo Finance. We had a class project in Econ in college circa 2005 that involved making market predictions based on Yahoo Finance with a couple points of your grade based on how well you did. As I recall I did pretty well in the short term.
jstummbillig 4y ago
How do you feel it compares to https://www.google.com/finance/ https://www.google.com/finance/ ?
- matwood 4y ago
  Google Finance looks nicer on the surface, but doesn't have nearly as much data. It doesn't have options for example. I feel like Google had a great opportunity with finance and let it wither like so many other things.
  - rileymat2 4y ago
    No, it did not just wither, it was actively sabotaged for my use cases by removing data I used to use. It happened overnight with a redesign.
- toyg 4y ago
  I honestly thought they had shut down this. Maybe they just closed the Api?
  - pooper 4y ago
    I remember having a made up portfolio on Google finance where I pretended to invest money in the stock market by pretending to buy a d sell shares and record my performance. It was terrible I lost a lot of imaginary money. Made me realize I'm not good at picking stocks. Anyway the point is that portfolio no longer exists on Google Finance. I think they rewrote the code behind Google finance at least twice.
- jonasdegendt 4y ago
  I was unaware this existed but when comparing a ticker on both platforms Yahoo offers a lot more information and metrics, it's nice that there's no click bait news articles being shown for every ticker you look up on Google Finance though.
- lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
  Google Finance is a much nicer looking product in terms of design, but the data it has is pretty weak. Yahoo Finance has much more detailed financials for a whole bunch of asset classes. For ETFs it has detailed performance data. For equities, you can get (and download) data on stuff like dividend history, stock splits. Just see for yourself. Pick a few assets and compare. It's night and day how much more detailed YF data is. The only real thing that GF has going for it is in Google Sheets you can put =GOOGLEFINANCE("symbol") and get the current price of that asset (you can also give it a second argument for other attributes, but the data on offer is pretty limited compared to YF).
- shyn3 4y ago
  Google finance used to be great and then it went to crap. Yahoo stayed the same. Also let's you export historical prices.
  - rileymat2 4y ago
    It is unbelievable what they did to it, I can’t fathom a reason.
    - tablespoon 4y ago
      > It is unbelievable what they did to it, I can’t fathom a reason. Was it one of those "We NEED to update the UI for $CURRENT_YEAR fashions!," that drops half the features for "simplicity"?
      - shyn3 4y ago
        Look at it on way back archive and yes.
    - Workaccount2 4y ago
      Things (generally) sell better when made for a 6th grade level.
tempestn 4y ago
Agreed; Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever.
- mandeepj 4y ago
  > Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever. Same here! I'm using it from the last 16-17 years almost every weekday and sunday nights. Tried Google finance but I could not get hooked to it.
- nradov 4y ago
  Yahoo Finance is the easiest way for individual investors to download historical securities prices for doing their own quantitative analysis.
  - tempestn 4y ago
    Yes! Back in the day (around 2012-2015) I did a bunch of regressions in R using YF data to land on my target portfolio value tilt. Certainly not something anyone has to do, but interesting for a finance nerd.
- AdamN 4y ago
  Yeah it's still incredibly good. I like Ycharts too but that's not free.

donatj 4y ago

Oh man. I forgot about Yahoo Finance. We had a class project in Econ in college circa 2005 that involved making market predictions based on Yahoo Finance with a couple points of your grade based on how well you did. As I recall I did pretty well in the short term.

jstummbillig 4y ago

How do you feel it compares to https://www.google.com/finance/ https://www.google.com/finance/ ?

matwood 4y ago
Google Finance looks nicer on the surface, but doesn't have nearly as much data. It doesn't have options for example. I feel like Google had a great opportunity with finance and let it wither like so many other things.
- rileymat2 4y ago
  No, it did not just wither, it was actively sabotaged for my use cases by removing data I used to use. It happened overnight with a redesign.
toyg 4y ago
I honestly thought they had shut down this. Maybe they just closed the Api?
- pooper 4y ago
  I remember having a made up portfolio on Google finance where I pretended to invest money in the stock market by pretending to buy a d sell shares and record my performance. It was terrible I lost a lot of imaginary money. Made me realize I'm not good at picking stocks. Anyway the point is that portfolio no longer exists on Google Finance. I think they rewrote the code behind Google finance at least twice.
jonasdegendt 4y ago
I was unaware this existed but when comparing a ticker on both platforms Yahoo offers a lot more information and metrics, it's nice that there's no click bait news articles being shown for every ticker you look up on Google Finance though.
lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
Google Finance is a much nicer looking product in terms of design, but the data it has is pretty weak. Yahoo Finance has much more detailed financials for a whole bunch of asset classes. For ETFs it has detailed performance data. For equities, you can get (and download) data on stuff like dividend history, stock splits. Just see for yourself. Pick a few assets and compare. It's night and day how much more detailed YF data is. The only real thing that GF has going for it is in Google Sheets you can put =GOOGLEFINANCE("symbol") and get the current price of that asset (you can also give it a second argument for other attributes, but the data on offer is pretty limited compared to YF).
shyn3 4y ago
Google finance used to be great and then it went to crap. Yahoo stayed the same. Also let's you export historical prices.
- rileymat2 4y ago
  It is unbelievable what they did to it, I can’t fathom a reason.
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    > It is unbelievable what they did to it, I can’t fathom a reason. Was it one of those "We NEED to update the UI for $CURRENT_YEAR fashions!," that drops half the features for "simplicity"?
    - shyn3 4y ago
      Look at it on way back archive and yes.
  - Workaccount2 4y ago
    Things (generally) sell better when made for a 6th grade level.

tempestn 4y ago

Agreed; Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever.

mandeepj 4y ago
> Yahoo Finance is the one Yahoo property I've used consistently forever. Same here! I'm using it from the last 16-17 years almost every weekday and sunday nights. Tried Google finance but I could not get hooked to it.
nradov 4y ago
Yahoo Finance is the easiest way for individual investors to download historical securities prices for doing their own quantitative analysis.
- tempestn 4y ago
  Yes! Back in the day (around 2012-2015) I did a bunch of regressions in R using YF data to land on my target portfolio value tilt. Certainly not something anyone has to do, but interesting for a finance nerd.
AdamN 4y ago
Yeah it's still incredibly good. I like Ycharts too but that's not free.