I've been doing research on stocks and investments and I want to find a way to compare or sort stocks by level of divendends paid in recent history.
126812
TRY YAHOO STOCK ADVANCED SEARCH.  IT ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH AND COMPARE DIFF STOCKS ON ALMOST ANY ASPECT OF THE STOCK, VOL, SHRS OUTS., DIVD....EXT.  YAHOO/FINANCE/INVESTING/STOCKS/STOCK SCREENER.
593362
very easy. contact www.stocksidea.com. they have answer of this
359600
There are far too many details missing from your question to give a good answer.  You don't indicate if you are talking daily, weekly, monthly, or intraday price/volume data.  If so, why not just download the historical data itself rather than keeping your own history?  Or whether you are possibly referring to fundamental data.  The answers can depend a lot on just what you are doing with the data.\n\nI'd suggest a visit to some Yahoo groups that deal with retrieving data from the Internet for use in EXCEL:\n\nhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xltraders/\nhttp://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/smf_addin/\n\nWithin the context of a discussion thread, where details like the above can be exchanged, you may get a better answer.  Also, the files areas of the two groups contain a number of tools and examples of getting financial data off the web.\n\nBTW -- the second group is one of mine.
422430
I suggest http://www.Top10Traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money. Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors. You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\nGood luck !
73436
a simple tracking method would be to set up your assets in a portfolio on finance.yahoo.com \n\nyou can just divide the earnings by the prin amount as a simplistic calculation.
578321
For stocks, you can look up the beta of a company.  For example, with Yahoo Finance, it's on the key stats page\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO\n\nYahoo has a beta of 1.26.
462140
There are three I use when doing some practice on an idea: businessweek, wall street journal, and virtual stock exchange.  The WSJ even keeps track of dividends.
601115
wow, uhmm perhaps the below?\nhttp://finance.ebookorama.com
131046
Do you have someone like Schwab or Merril Lynch managing your account? Is this a 401k? You can get your account activity online through whomever is brokering your account. If it's through your work, go to the personnel office and ask for the information booklet on how to access your account information. If you just want to know how your stock is doing, click stocks on your Yahoo! home page and enter the symbol SHLD. (Kmart owned by Sears holding Co.) That will tell you the value.
16705
visit zacks.com or cnbc.com, but I like yahoo the best.   Create a my yahoo home page and track your list of fifty stocks.  Go to the profile and visit the company's home page.  View presentations and listen to conference calls.
515131
type in MSFT into a "find a quote" box on Yahoo! Finance or MSN Money and that will tell you the most recent trade price. You'll have to open an account with a brokerage firm or an online account like sharebuilder or some similar company to buy shares.
667652
Go to Yahoo Finance.  Lookup the stock.  On the left column there will be a link under Ownership titled Major Holders.  At the bottom of that page is a link to "View Transactions for Insiders & Institutional Holders.\n\nThere you go.
304006
If you have an on line stock broker account, they probably have access to S&P reports that will give you the historical data. \n\nNot all REITs are anywhere near the same nor do they pay the same dividends. And many times a portion of the dividend is a return of capital. \n\nThere are even multiple categories of REITs. Appartment REITs, Office building REITs, shopping mall REITs, even storage bin REITs, hotel REIT's, and probably others I am not familiar with.
95987
go to yahoo finance, enter the ticker and click on historical prices.
406675
It seems like Google(GOOG) accoring to http://www.Top10Traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money. Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios as well as the most widely held stocks:\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/StockInfo.aspx
138012
Do a search for 'list brokers' - a good company will have lists available presorted by the specific demographics you want.
57777
I haven't had this happen to me, but the way to avoid this is to select investments (brokerages, mutual funds, banks) that allow you to view their results and see if other people have lost money on the same investment.