Company Financials

Posted by Russell Leidich, Google Finance 20% Engineer Everyone knows that business cycles oscillate from boom to bust every so many years, and real estate is not unique in this regard. Stock prices reflect these trends. Anyone who has looked at a home builder stock in the past couple years is intimately aware of this connection. But what does it mean to say that an industry, as opposed to a stock, is experiencing a downturn? It's not just a matter of saying "real estate stocks are down" -- it's more that they're down, in a roughly correlated manner, over a meaningful common time period. Let me show you what I'm talking about. Here are 3 major homebuilders -- Centex , Lennar , and Ryland -- in the same graph: Let me take a moment to explain how I generated this chart, so that you can do your own analysis of stock trends in real estate (or any other industry). Go to Google Finance . Type in the first symbol, CTX (Centex). Hit Enter. You should see a chart f...

Posted by Casey Ho, Engineering Intern, Google Finance If you like to customize your iGoogle page , you'll love these two new gadgets. The interactive chart and sector summary gadgets reflect two of our most popular features on Google Finance. We're pleased to now offer them on iGoogle. Click on the screenshots below to read more about the gadgets and to add them to your page: There'll be more finance gadgets to come. Meanwhile, if there's something you really want made into a gadget, please let us know in the comments section!

Posted by Nick Fey, Designer, Google Finance It's easy to access Google Finance even when you are away from your computer. Even using the most basic mobile phone, you can receive stock quotes simply by sending a text message containing a ticker to GOOGLE (466453). (Note that quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes.) If you have web browsing enabled on your phone, go to http://www.google.com/m . And if you want easy access to stock quotes, look at Build your page and click on the Add Stocks link. Enter one or more stock tickers, and build up a watchlist for your phone. When you're done, click the Add button. Now your Google search page will display your watchlist with 20-minute-delayed quotes below the search box. Better still, click on any of the tickers to see all the detailed quote data you would find on Google Finance on your PC, along with today's chart for that stock. We're currently looking at alerts for your phone, too, so that you can be notified when your stocks...

Posted by Eric Schrock, Engineering Tech Lead, and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager We're excited to welcome you to the official Google Finance blog. This is how we want to communicate with the community of people who need financial information at their fingertips. We'll write about new features, share observations about new tools in the financial industry and get your feedback about new releases. You'll hear from all kinds of folks involved in developing Google Finance: full-time engineers, 20% engineers , interface designers, interns, product managers and anyone else we can convince to post in case we become too dull. We want to hear from you too. Please give us feedback on what you'd like to see, read or hear from the Finance team in the comments section below.