Stock Price Information

University of Chicago Subscription Sources

Factiva: Select "Companies/Markets".
Factiva has daily prices for two years, weekly prices for five years and monthly prices for five years. Includes open, high, low, close and volume. Adjusted prices only. The charting feature allows comparison of multiple stocks as well as one or more indices.
U.S. and international companies.
Mergent Online: Thirty years of daily, weekly and monthly prices. Includes open, high, low, close and volume. Prices can be displayed as adjusted or unadjusted for splits and dividends. The charts option allows comparison of up to four stocks and one index. Select "Equity Pricing" for prices and "Capital Stock" for splits and dividends.
U.S. and international companies.
Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP): CRSP is the most comprehensive source for stocks traded on the New York, American and NASDAQ exchanges. Daily prices are available from 1962 for the NYSE and AMEX and 1972 for NASDAQ. Monthly prices are available from 1925 for the NYSE, 1962 for AMEX and 1972 for NASDAQ. There is also data for mutual funds, REITs and U.S. Treasury issues.
CRSP is accessed through Wharton Research Data Services. Access is restricted to Chicago Booth faculty and students and economics faculty and Ph.D students.
Datastream: Datastream has pricing information for over 100,000 equity issues in over 200 countries. Coverage goes back as far as 1973 but varies by company. Datastream also has data on bonds, futures and options.
Datastream runs on client software and can only be accessed on workstation A9 on the first floor of Regenstein Library and the Harper Center and Gleacher Center computer labs.
The Wall Street Journal through ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Full text of the newspaper in Adobe PDF format for 1889 - 1989. It includes stock tables and other illustrations.
It can be easier to search for "stock", "stock quotation" or "quote" for a specific date rather than for a specific company.

Free Internet Sources

This is a selected list of sites that offer free pricing data. Many of these have deep historical data but this can be inconsistent. In addition, most free sites discontinue coverage when a company's capital structure changes. For example, Yahoo! Finance has data for United Airlines, but only for the period after they emerged from bankruptcy in 2006.

Yahoo! Finance: Daily, weekly and monthly open, high, low, close, volume, and close adjusted for splits and dividends. Search for a stock and then select "historical prices". Data are available back as far as 1962, depending on the stock (the earliest available date will be displayed automatically). Also covers mutual funds, indices and exchange traded funds.
Google Finance: Daily and weekly open, high, low, close and volume. Prices are adjusted for splits and dividends, but these actions are not indicated when the data are downloaded. Data are available as far back as forty years but there is no easy way to determine the earliest available date.
Big Charts: Most useful for getting a quote for a specific date. Does not offer data downloads.

Other Sources

Print Source: The Commercial and Financial Chronicle: This was a daily business newspaper, published from 1865-1976. It included weekly summaries of regional markets and is a good source for stocks not listed on the New York Exchange. Located in the Regenstein Bookstacks, call number fHG1.C7