Why You Should Go Here To Learn More About Stocks
Written: Jan 21 '00
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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
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| hwz1's Full Review: Yahoo Finance |
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.
To begin with, log onto Yahoo's site and go to stock quotes. Enter the symbol that you want information for and then you will get a quick quote. In addition to the quick quote, you will see the following: profile, extended quote, chart, boards, insiders and sec. Just click on what interests you.
The profile section gives you a description of the company and a quick glance at what the company does and how they do it. You can also check out institutional holdings, insider transactions, and the companies financials with just one click. The first two are important to look at when deciding what to with a stock. For instance, would you want to sell a stock that the insiders were buying. Or one that a giant well performing mutual fund was buying? I would want to be on the same side as the professionals as much as possible.
I then make my way to the chart and extended quote sections. The charts can be configured on an intra-day basis, week, month, year, and multi- year basis. In other words, they cover just about everything you could want. The quote also covers the usual- volume, high, low, bid and ask, etc.
From here I can check out how the stock performs relative to the industry they are involved in. Simply, go to the industry section and input the symbol. Once in the section, it is easy to set up a number of parameters and search them to see how certain stocks stack up against their peers.
So what complaints do I have with Yahoo Finance? The message boards are usually a waste of time and the news could be better. The boards are a lot antagonists picking fights to back the side of the stock that they are invested. In addition, the language can be vulgar and spam is very prevelent. As for the news, I think they spend too much time showing us block trades and not enough on hard news. Under the quotes you can get real news, but under the news section in general you will find too much in the way of "fluff".
I would recommend Yahoo Finance To anyone who is researching stocks. I am in the business and it the site I frequent the most.
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