by mrisch in Personal Finance, - Top 500, Aug 26 '01
Pros: Has everything you could ever need Cons: Can it last forever?
Come now, as we explore the exciting world of financial websites. By far the best free site (and probably best among pay sites) is the Yahoo! finance site. You can get anything, everything, and then some at finance.yahoo.com. The site is so good, I...
Pros: Good information on finance, personalized services Cons: Appearance isn't the best; some services carry a fee
Stock quotes, corporate financial data, company news….these things can now be found all over the world wide web. Financial web services are in great abundance in cyberspace. Most of them offer basically the same information, in a different format. This...
Pros: simple, powerful, easy-to-use, great news, research, so many features, etc. Cons: delayed quotes!
Yahoo! Finance <http://finance.yahoo.com or http://quote.yahoo.com> is one of the premiere financial websites offering loads of content in a very navigable, efficient, easy-to-use site.
Pros: Complete, easy to access company information, inexpensive online bill paying Cons: For the serious investor or researcher, none at all
I confess. Where Web sites are concerned, I am a shallow person. Yes, it's too true. The glitz of beautifully designed site like CNBC sucks me right in. I love their scrolling, multicolor custom stock ticker. I am grabbed by the stylish graphics. I...
Pros: a lot of information, great sources, easy to use Cons: none
Yahoo! Finance is a great place for financial novices, intermediates, experts to learn more about the subject of finance and investments. I love this portion of Yahoo! because it is very easy to use and navigate, the pages download very quickly, and the...
Pros: lots of information, analyst's reports, investment challenge, individual and portfolio-style quotes Cons: only semi-intuitive to navigate, plain layout, not personalized by default
When investing in the stock market, my opinion is that long-term investing is best. However, even in my long-term approach (but even more so for short and medium-term investors), I still need to determine the best price points to buy into a given stock...
Pros: Great information and resources are abundant. Cons: Limited research on thinly traded issues.
This review will be on two aspects of Yahoo!'s financial information website; the information provided on equities (stock quotes, portfolios, research) and also on Yahoo's specific Fund Transfer service.
Pros: custom-build, easy to use, complete information Cons: rare service delays
I've been using the Yahoo! Finance site for almost four years now, and having tried many of their competitors, I have to say this is the best overall financial site on the Web right now.
You can get the 15-minute delay quotes, the charts, the...
Pros: Simple, fast, reliable, full-featured Cons: No Free Real Time Quotes
There have been many complaints that people have in regards to Yahoo! in general, for its difficulty in navigating, the proliferation of shoddy websites in its directory listing, and its relatively antiquated search technology.
Pros: Great Free Information and Portfolio Tracking Tools Cons: None to speak of
When you need to track your investments online, there are few better tools to use than Yahoo! Finance. This free service provided by a name you already know is amongst the best available on the 'net at any price. It's easy to find, simple to...
Pros: Great main page, portfolio monitoring, and entertaining finance articles Cons: Portfolio entries are a little old-school compared to the rest of the website
I’ve used a number of different sources for financial research and Yahoo Finance continues to outshine the rest. When it comes to a single source that one would want to check daily for finance related data, it continues to be the most comprehensive ...
Pros: Many tools and resources, tied well with my yahoo! Cons: None
Yahoo! Finance is a site that has lots of links to investment info. It has links to many Yahoo! regions of the world such as Yahoo! Finance UK, Yahoo! Finance HK, Yahoo! Finance Australia, etc with each region dealing with the local markets and local...
Pros: A wealth of information Cons: Lack of real-time quotes
Yahoo! in general is a great site with many different facets. Yahoo! Finance is no different, representing Yahoo! well. It is a premiere site for the personal investor. The site is user friendly and easy to use. Yahoo members can integrate their...
Pros: Easy to customize Cons: Pay services are extra.
Yahoo! Finance - a Super Finance Site!
I have been using Yahoo! Finance since I started trading on the Internet. Therefore, I can honestly say that this site is great for beginners as well as more advanced traders. If you are just starting...
Pros: Great tools, profile and insider sections are wonderful, charts and extended quotes are very good Cons: Boards are useless and news is not in depth
I know how people look at Yahoo- a big site that is not really great at one thing, but good at a lot of different things. Well, not so when it comes to stock tools. Yahoo is great at a lot of things when it comes to researching stocks.
Pros: Tons of information, very in depth, site is very easy to navigate Cons: none that i could find
Yahoo Finance is a great financial tool for all types of investor, from beginner to expert. It has something for everyone. If you're signed up with Yahoo, you already have an account with Yahoo Finance, if not, sign up, it's worth it.
Pros: easy to use, has lots of useful information Cons: doesn't automatically calculate splits into portfolio
I stumbled onto yahoo finance when I picked up Yahoo's incarnation of instant messenger, which has a little stock ticker function that can track your stocks for you. After a few minutes of entering my positions, which was very straightforward, I now...
Pros: The fastest, easiest way to get financial information. Cons: Quotes are not "real-time"
Quote.yahoo.com is a web address that anyone who follows the markets closely should know and use frequently. It is by far the quickest and easiest way to find pertinent information relating to both the markets and individual stocks.
Pros: Free, great research tools and quoting information Cons: Nothing is real time, chat boards are not to useful
Yahoo Finance is one of the best free services out there for finding good information on your investments. I use it primarily for stock research. It provides an excellent base of information for you to make an educated decision on a stock. Within the...
Pros: Lots of functionality - fast, multi-featured, great news and message boards Cons: No real-time, with finance, you definitely need real-time!!!
There are many reasons why I continue to use Yahoo despite the many alternatives that have come up. Other sites usually have some special feature like real-time quotes or offers trading,etc. However, Yahoo is truly a SUPERSITE with its pros...
Pros: Easy to use, very informative Cons: Not for the daytraders
Yahoo! Finance was my first.....financial website that is. After I changed jobs a couple of years ago I had some money in a profit sharing account that I wanted to move. I contacted my local bank which put me in touch with a broker who...
Pros: Free quotes, wealth of info. Cons: Charts a bit misleading sometimes, lack of variety in charting options.
Yahoo! Finance is where I go to look at stocks when I don't need realtime updates. They have a wealth of news links that they'll display for a variety of stocks. One stock that I follow casually, is only at 19 cents a share, but Yahoo! continually...
Pros: in depth research, customizable Cons: message boards are a joke
Who else could bring you great chat, good clubs, free email, great search capabilities, great news, and the best free research site out there? Of course its Yahoo, and of course its free. I have prefered using this site for research while using E*Trade,...
Pros: Comprehensive, informative, fast loading, easy to use. Cons: Portfolio monitoring can be improved.
There are many web portals offering basic financial information, as well as sites dedicated to financial information. While I do use a few websites for financial information, Yahoo Finance is my primary source of information.
Pros: very organized, up to date, easy to use Cons: toughy....
Yahoo! Finance is the greatest tool on the net for the serious invester. I signed up for an e*trade account a few weeks ago and Yahoo! Finance has been my cyber stock broker! If you are looking for up to the minute stock stats... you NEED to check out...
Pros: Easy to Use, Offers everything an investor needs Cons: Nothing noted.
I consider myself an active investor and visit financial sites on the Internet on a daily basis. Over the past few years, I have found that Yahoo Finance does the best job providing valuable finance information free of charge. When evaluating a...
Pros: Overall the best investment site on the net today Cons: Quotes are delayed 15 minutes; Must be a Yahoo member to manage portfolios
I have been investing for over 2 years now, and from the start I used Yahoo Finance (http://quote.yahoo.com). It is simply the best site out there for investors, offering FREE research, detailed quotes and charts, analyst recommendations, up-to-date news...
Pros: Gets the latest news before everyone else. Cons: The 15-20 minute delay in quotes is too long.
I use quite a few different financial web sites and YAHOO always has the latest news for each ticker way before the other sites do. In fact, I can check YAHOO FINANCE for news about my company sometimes before corp. hq releases the news to its own...
Pros: Load fast, compact, up-to-date news Cons: no real-time quote, no stock evaluation or portfolio analysis
Yahoo Financial's design is very compact and efficient. It is best to work with Yahoo's customized portal page -- My Yahoo. You can sign up My Yahoo for free, which let you specify the information that you like to see in one or several pages. It uses a...
Pros: tons of info, easy to use Cons: numbers sometimes not up to date
The Yahoo Finance site is one of the best financial sites available on the web. Appearance wise it may not look like much, however, the features that it does offer saves potential investors a bunch of research time.
Pros: speedy site, one stop portal, great info Cons: can't trade through yahoo
Yahoo Finance is my resource for quotes, news, symbol search any information that I require on my holdings. The great thing about the Yahoo Finance portal is that you never actually have to leave the site since all the information that you would ever...
Pros: Tons of Info and Links Cons: Needs to Differentiate more
Yahoo! is the behemouth of the Internet and one that made its money in stocks. Then who better to give stock advice that a company whose entire existence trives from the Internet. As with everything else is Yahoo!, they have a vast directory of Financial...
Pros: Never worry about mailing and writing checks Cons: No cons at this point
Recently enrolled in the yahoo check paying program and have been very happy! I no longer have to write checks and when I do need to pay a bill logging on to the check paying section and selecting what establishment you owe and how much you want to pay...
Thanks Jerry Yang. This site provides useful charts both long-term and day. It also provides a very helpful message board which allows you to read rumors, so you know why a stock is zooming way up or down. The easy access to news is also helpful. Overall...
Pros: Large Amounts of Info Cons: Some OTC stocks not listed, No real time quotes
Yahoo Finance had everything an investor will need for researching stocks. First, lets begin with the sites design. The main page, finance.yahoo.com, lists all resources that an investor will need. You can check info on individual stocks, the major...
Pros: Your own customized content! Cons: messages are mostly junk mail
As an avid stock investor, I have been surprised how few investors are taking advantage of free services on the Web. My absolute favorite is My.yahoo.com - a free customized service from Yahoo! that lets you customize your own electronic pages and...
Pros: Full of many useful hyperlinks Cons: still looking
Yahoo Finance at http://finance.yahoo.com is a very versatile and thorough web site that helps you quickly check the status of your various financial endeavors. I check several of the Yahoo web sites daily.
The best feature of the site is the...
Pros: provides comprehensive information in an easy format Cons: some information lacks depth
Yahoo! finance has been my favorite place for investment information over the past five years. Whether I'm looking for quotes, researching investments, or even looking for borrowing rates, I know I can quickly find what I need on Yahoo! in a format...
About three years ago, I searched the web for a free site where I could track my portfolio's performance. I eventually found my way to Yahoo's finance page and have probably revisited a thousand times since. I mainly use Yahoo Finance for two things. ...
Pros: Vast information Cons: Poor portfolio tracker
Yahoo Finance is a very in-depth financial resource. If it as to do with the markets, you'll find it here. I follow my portfolios here (also at Fool.com) and am pretty happy with it. However, I don't feel Yahoo Finance is a good resource for beginning...
Pros: Quick Loading site, Customizable Cons: Stock Quotes are Delayed
I've tried countless finance sites with glitzy graphics. Yahoo! allows you to create as many portfolios with as many stocks as you want in each portfolio. The website is incredibly fast so updating portfolios during the course of the day is just...
Pros: Excellent free site for investors Cons: 20 minutes behind the market
Yahoo Finace is the best site to use for maintaining your personal portfolio. It is excellent for pulling in the quick info that you need to see how a particular stock is performing. I also like the section provided to show your personal portfolio. It...
Pros: free, quicken killer Cons: slow at certain things, not full function
Have you seen Yahoo's portfolio manager tool? Used to be just another tool where you laboriously entered all the ticker symbols in your portfolio .. yawn. Not anymore. The new "account aggregator" feature which automatically imports data from...
Pros: Finance at your finger tips. Cons: Quotes delayed 15 to 20 minutes.
If you are new to investing in stocks then make sure you have this page book marked! As a stock investor myself, I can't remember how many times I found all the latest up to date info on companies and IPO'S at Yahoo Finance. Having quick access to the...
Yahoo Finance not only gives to the tools required to be a successful trader but gives you a monthly contest where you can practice your skills and even earn real dollars.
The only problem I have found is that the contest does not always...
Pros: Lots of features, dependably available Cons: 20 minute delay in stock quotes
I won't go so far as to say that Yahoo Finance is the best out there. Problem is...Yahoo is the only site I use, so I really don't have a basis for comparison. However, if all the other financial sites out there works as well as Yahoo, and offers as...
A friend of mine beams with pride that his 16-year-old grandson just bought a 'first car' paid for out of his personally managed stock portfolio. This kid is likely to finance his own education. What a 'relief' that must be for mom and dad.
Pros: Diverse story offerings. Cons: No real-time quotes.
In my very humble opinion, Yahoo!Finance is simply the simple, plain vanilla best overall financial site out there. You can create portfolios, get historical stock prices, download them, news on specific companies (not just from one source), create...
Pros: clear easy viewing of whole portfolio picture Cons: 15 min delay and occasional outages
When it comes to organizing your portfolio into a readable spreadsheet type form there is no better free service available then Yahoo Finance. Once you've put in your entry price, broker fee, price alert, etc you end up with a nice easy to read...
Pros: Easy to use; lots of information Cons: Account Tracking is terrible!
I have been using Yahoo Finance for a couple of years now. I find it is a great resource for information on Mutual Funds and Stocks, as well as Financial News.
Approximately one month ago, I noticed they have an Account Management/Tracking...
Pros: easy to use Cons: you can have a heart attack by seeing how much you are losing!
I use the Yahoo Finance website because it has all the info that I am looking for.
It has all the latest stock market news, company news, stock prices, and the absolute best message board. Also stock price trend charts are available for 1...
Pros: simplicity, functionality, free Cons: 15-20 min delay on prices
I've used Yahoo's Finance website for over four years now and I continue to visit it every day. I like the simple and easy way I can store and edit several portfolios of my stocks. I keep my current "actual" stocks in one, and a list of stocks...
Pros: Quotes, information. Cons: None that i have found.
Yahoo may not be real-time, but unless you are a day-trader you probably don't need real-time quotes anyway. Yahoo has quotes on almost an stock, mutual fund or other form of investment that you can think of.
Pros: Fast, easy to use, wealth of information Cons: Can't adjust for distributions (but none of them do...)
I can find absolutely no reason to use any site other than Yahoo! Finance to track my stocks and mutual funds. They offer an easy-to-use system with a wealth of resources that continues to boggle my mind.
Pros: real time quotes, fast server, reliable Cons: very bad message boards, real time quotes only from Nasdaq
As a person living in Canada and interested in Canadian stocks, I saw no use for Yahoo finance for one main reason. That reason was that Yahoo did not have a big focus on Canadian stocks. The message boards have very few posters compared to Canadian...
Pros: Easy to use, Lots of information Cons: May be too much information
I surf Yahoo! Finance on a daily basis and am rarely disappointed. I first became aware of Yahoo Finance about two years ago when it was recommended to me by a broker. It turns out this is the site he goes to when he has questions. Now that is a...
Pros: easy to use, lots of info, lots of features and personalization Cons: charts a little strange
i keep all of my stock portfolios on yahoo finance. it is much easier than logging into my brokerage's (actually brokerages') sites and looking at my money stats that way. i have many different portfolios in yahoo and they are all easily accessible...
Pros: Personal Portfolio/ Free/ You're at Yahoo! site all the time anyway Cons: Accuracy.
Yahoo! Finance is good, and getting better everyday. As always it's is free. They have a great portfolio tracker with the standard twenty-minute delay for all ticker symbols.
They only drawback to Yahoo! Finance is the accuracy of the ticker...
I have an E*TRADE account, but whenever I want quick stock quotes I use Yahoo! Finance. You can keep an account & if you login it knows which stocks to get quotes for, which is very nice. Also, the set up is really good, it is easy to see what you...
I enjoy the market and investing. I believe it provides a wealth of information about how to start, grow, and maintain a business. Yahoo finance gives the ability to pinpoint the information you want and organize it in a meaningful and accessible format....
Pros: Easy to use, detailed charts and graphs Cons: none
We discovered Yahoo Finance a year ago and we use it quite often. The site is easy to navigate and the news is always up to date. Unlike some other quote sites that give you hard to read charts and graphs (AOL Quotes for example) you can get detailed...
I use Yahoo Finance to check my portfolio, even though I trade on line, I find it easier and faster to use. Re-entering the data (symbol, shares, purchase price, etc.) is easy and worth the added time.
Pros: Easy to navigate, Lots of Free Information Cons: 15 minute delay on quotes
I have been using Yahoo Finance for over a year now and love it. It allows me to keep various portfolios on my yahoo start page, and has a fifteen minute delay on quotes, much like other free financial sites. Another thing I enjoy about Yahoo is the...
Pros: Yahoo is an exemplary site that should not go down. Cons: To do this, Yahoo would have to become even more reliable.
I'm sure Yahoo has perfectly good planners and visionaries in its corporate digs so what I am about to say can
probably go down as the superfluous at best.
Or heretical.
This is inspired to some extent by horror stories of...
Yahoo Finance (quote.yahoo.com) is a great site for many reasons. First, the site is very simple and easy to use. You simply go to the homepage (www.yahoo.com) and click on quotes. Then, you type in your desired stock's ticker symbol and bang, you get...
Pros: Flexible and customizable Cons: Password problems
I have an account with a brokerage house that offers online access to view the status of my positions. It does not have the flexibility to customize views and details as Yahoo does. And Yahoo is free.
I've visited other websites to decide if I...
You name it. All the information whether it is pertaining to Asia or USA everything is available here. Its the best site i have ever come across. All the latest information is available on this site. Research reports are excellent. You can also have...
Pros: Good mutual fund section, real time stock prices, well organized and easy to use. Cons: On a rare occassion has inaccurate information.
I really like yahoo finance. It has almost every feature you could want for stocks and mutual funds. It has all the tools to analyze stocks both technically and fundamentally. It gives you P/E ratios, dividend information, past prices, insider...
Pros: Great Site,easy to navigate Cons: none that I can think of
I am a small investor who has been using Yahoo Finance for years. The content is excellent and set up well. It's very easy to navigate and very fast. You can research any stock or mutual fund and get all the information you need in a flash. It has links...
Pros: Free stuff is good. Cons: Nonresponsive, cavalier attitude about your money.
Billpay has been a nightmare. I signed up, the first bill that came due failed to produce the requisite reminder. By the time I realized it, it was too late for Yahoo to process the payment. As a result, my payment was difficult to make on time, necessitating a call to the company I owed, giving them my checking account info., personal information, etc. Yahoo's response was that I should check my reminders and make sure they were right. I did so, and there was no problem on my end. I told Yahoo, and their response was that this is not a Yahoo BillPay problem, but rather Yahoo Finance's responsibility. The exact email read, "Thank you for writing. The payment reminder function is not a feature of Yahoo! Bill Pay. For assistance with your inquiry, please contact Yahoo! Finance at the following address: finance-admin@yahoo-inc.com"
This non-answer is not acceptable, and smells of buck-passing. This is your money. You should not risk one dime on a service that appears not too terribly concerned with your money, potential late fees, etc.
I would avoid the Billpay, and stick to what doesn't cost anything, and services that do not endanger your wallet.
I've emailed yahoo about the problem with the charts which is 1 -2 minutes delay.But so far they just promised to fix it and never get it done.I pay $9.95/month for nothing.
New charts need more explanation by woodland518 ,Dec 14 '06
Pros: Nice looking, fast, no apparent bugs Cons: Inadequate documentation
I just tried this out. Several years ago, it seemed like there were lots of places where you could compare mutual funds using a "growth of 10,000" type chart. This is a really useful approach because the growth is adjusted for dividends or capital distributions.
For me, I'm investing long term in mutual funds and reinvesting all distributions. It doesn't make sense to compare just prices over, say, 5 years. It does not result in an apples-to-apples comparison.
I can't tell if the new Yahoo Finance charts are doing true comparisons, or just comparing prices. The documentation does not explain.
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