Company Financials

Posted by Dion Loy, Google Finance engineer Today we're pulling the wraps off Google Finance Canada , a localized version of Google Finance tailored for Canadian investors. One of our top requests has been for localized market information, presented of course in a useful and accessible format. We think Google Finance Canada addresses this by presenting top news and company news from Canadian sources, economic data from the Bank of Canada, multi-currency portfolios, and Canadian equity and mutual fund data. The main Google.com search experience has also been improved with Canadian stock onebox results . But speaking as a Canadian, my favourite feature is the company search that prioritizes Canadian companies (no more typing in Canadian exchange prefixes!). What makes this release extra-special for us is the fact that it was put together by a distributed team of full-time and 20-percent-time engineers. (All the Google engineers may devote 20 percent of his or her work time towards a...

Posted by Dave Marmaros, Technical Lead, Google Calendar Want to know how your favorite stock is doing each day? Now you can! Google Calendar and Google Finance have teamed up to provide daily stock quotes. Try searching for your favorite stock symbol in Calendar: You will then be able to able to see the close price as an event each day.

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager, Google Finance First things first: thanks to all of you who posted so many great comments. We've enjoyed reading them and are excited to try this Q&A thing out. So now to the good stuff: Internationalization. There are a lot of suggestions to add quotes from various international markets including Australia and India. We can assure you that we are committed to providing a comprehensive online finance product and we do believe internationalization is important. Currently, Google Finance offers quotes from many international stock exchanges including Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Paris, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Toronto. It's great to have your input as to which markets should be our top priority. Stay tuned! Tools. Many of you have asked for more tools like stock screeners. There are a bunch of online finance sites with stock screeners, but they could probably use some updating. We have a Noogler (a.k.a. "new ...

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager, Google Finance A core tenet of Google is to "focus on the user and all else will follow." The Google Finance team shares this view and as such, we spend a lot of time conducting user research, meeting with power and novice users of online finance, and reading your emails and comments to this blog. This week, we wanted to try a new idea, which is to set aside a period of time to have an interactive Q&A session on this blog. Here's how it will work: please write your suggestions and questions about Google Finance in the comments section below this post. We will start reviewing and responding to all comments (except comments that are off-topic!) immediately and will respond in a meta-post on Thursday, July 19th around 9am PST. If there are more submissions than we can comfortably answer in a single post, we'll carry over the selected questions to Friday and answer them then. We look forward to hearing from you!

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance Designer Almost every stock investor that we talk to during our user visits makes use of a spreadsheet to compile the data they have researched and many use their own formula to help decide when it is optimal to trade a stock. Whether they use Excel or a napkin, vast numbers of investors spend time every day keying in or writing down data. Wouldn't it be great if there was a spreadsheet that you could access from anywhere with an Internet connection -- a spreadsheet you could share with certain friends and automatically get the data updated to save you doing that work each day? For a while now, Google Spreadsheets has included Finance formulas so you can do all this and more. Within Google Spreadsheets you can select the Formula tab and follow the more >> link on the top right. Look at the Google section within the dialogue box and from here you can see the syntax for entering a Finance formula (see above). The details of all the stock and...

Posted by Ayla Tiago De Melo, Moderator, Google Finance Team When Google Finance launched last year, we created discussion groups, a forum where posters could have quality, on-topic, spam-free discussions about their favorite stocks and companies, and where the exchanges remain cordial and informative. If you're interested in participating, please review our community guidelines . In addition to these rules, we have a small team of moderators, including me, who help facilitate the discussion process. Over the past few months, we've seen some great discussions on Google (GOOG) , New York Stock Exchange (NYX) , and the recent IPO of Blackstone (BX) . In fact, our Apple discussions group has been hotter than ever as the community has been going ga-ga over the iPhone (in fact, so have I -- who hasn't been?). To find a discussion on a particular company, do a search on Google Finance , and click on the "Discuss" link, above the chart. Or, you can start your search fo...