Q. Where do I find historical stock prices?

To find historical stock prices, you can consult older issues of newspapers. We have the Wall Street Journal online from 1984- present. You can also use either of the following sources to locate, customize a date range, and download historical stock prices:

Mergent Online database
Thirty years of daily, weekly, and monthly prices. Includes open, high, low, close and volume.  

• Search for your company and select the relevant company profile. 
• Click on the Equity Pricing tab. It defaults to the Chart subtab which gives end of day pricing and enables you to build graphs and charts for different time periods by price and volume. Click on the Report subtab for historical daily stock pricing.

Yahoo! Finance
Easiest source to use to access historical stock prices for one company; 

• Enter ticker symbol for desired company
• Click on the Historical Prices link
• Daily stock prices available from 1/2/1962 - present
• Data points: Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume Adjusted Close
• Click on the Download to Spreadsheet link at the bottom of your returned results to export data into Excel