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How do I find historical stock prices for old companies?

Author

Andrew Mclaughlin

Published Mar 21, 2026

To find stock prices, click on the Companies/Markets tab on the top of the screen, type in your ticker symbol and indicate whether you want daily or monthly prices. Prices are available for the last 3 years. A web resource for historic stock prices is Yahoo Finance (Stock Prices) – .

Where can I find historical stock data?

Internet Sources for Historical Market & Stock Data

  • Yahoo! Finance – Historical Prices.
  • Dow Jones Industrial Averages. Historical and current performance data.
  • S&P Indices. Historical performance data.
  • IPL Newspaper Collection.
  • Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
  • FINRA: Market Data Center.

How do I access stock data?

Yahoo finance is one of the free sources to get stock data. You can get the data either using pandas datareader or can get using yfinance library. The method to get data from yfinance library is shown below. Wiki is one of the free source available on quandl to get the data for the 3000+ US equities.

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How much does Morningstar API cost?

2. Morningstar stock API. Tick data: 20 years available for instituional only.

How do I find the price of a stock on a certain date?

Use the “Historical Stock Price Values” tool on the MarketWatch website to find stock prices for a specific date. Enter the symbol of the stock, or a keyword for the company if you don’t know the stock symbol, into the first box in the tool.

Can you look up stocks by price?

Some such as the MarketWatch screener are quite simple while others such as the screener on the Wall Street Journal site provide a variety of “search by price” options. Enter your search criteria and start the search.

How do I download historical share prices?

Save historical data from a desktop browser

  1. Go to Yahoo Finance.
  2. Enter a quote into the search field.
  3. Select a quote in the search results to view it.
  4. Click Historical Data.
  5. Select a Time Period, data to Show, and Frequency.
  6. Click Apply.
  7. To use the data offline, click Download Data.

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Historical daily share price chart and data for AT since 1984 adjusted for splits. The latest closing stock price for AT as of June 04, 2021 is 29.27. The all-time high AT stock closing price was 59.19 on July 16, 1999.

What was the stock price of at & T before the divestiture?

After the AT; stock price is added, you get $77.89. By comparison, the composite price immediately after the divestiture was $62.84. And in the quarter before the divestiture, the market price of the “old” AT; ranged from $60.125 to $66.375.

When did at & t break up into different companies?

Can you help?–M.C. ANSWER: Because of wide shareholder interest, several newspapers offered a summary of Bell System stock prices for several months after the Jan. 1, 1984, breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. into a “new” AT; and seven regional telephone companies.

How can I find the value of my at & T stock?

QUESTION: Ever since the breakup of AT;, I have been keeping track of the prices of all the Bell company stocks so I can calculate the value of my holdings and compare it to the value of my “old” AT; stock.