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Posted by Brian Shih, Product Manager Here on the Google Finance team we love to use the Stock Screener tool to make investing decisions or have fun exploring the performance of various stocks across industries. We’re starting a series on our blog and Twitter accounts promoting interesting screening scenarios and results, and we’d love your input. Here’s a few of our favorite examples so far: Which large cap utilities command the highest operating margins? Which stocks are currently delivering the highest dividend yield? What are the most active penny stocks? What stocks have had the steepest 5-year revenue growth? To submit your own stock screener scenarios for the chance to be featured in our blog or Twitter stream, just start screening for your favorite real-life or fantasy stock decisions and submit the results to our dedicated group with a brief explanation - the more details you provide around why you chose to screen the way you did, what your reaction to the results was, and w...

Posted by Laura Hughes, Consumer Operations Here on the Google Finance team we are committed to adding valuable new features with every launch. Six weeks ago we launched a ‘ Product Ideas page for Google Finance ’ push in which we invited you to submit and vote on feature ideas for our site. During the series, over 5,000 of you submitted 3,700 ideas and 38,000 votes. Now, as the series is winding down, here’s a look at some of your top ideas and what we have implemented so far. What you voted for: Launched! New Mobile Interface : A new mobile interface was the top idea on the Product Ideas page before we launched it. Launched! Big Charts : Bigger charts have always been a top feature request and since launching this feature in August it’s become one of our favorite tools. Top Ideas The top ideas are a mix of portfolio charting, data/market requests, and education tools. Although we don’t have these yet we’re always working on new ideas. Portfolio Charting: "Show historical grap...

Posted by Brian Shih, Product Manager A couple weeks ago we showed you our best tips for the Google Finance Stock Screener. But this tool is just one of many features on the site that is designed to help you make informed investing decisions. Today we’d like to reintroduce you to Google’s Domestic Trends - a powerful tool for exploring the economy and financial markets. We first introduced Google Domestic Trends last September in partnership with Hal Varian and the Google team of economists. The ultimate goal was to explore the link between relative search query volume of terms related each of 23 major economic industries in the United States and stock market performance. In this way, we sought to provide unique insight into the broader economy and help users to take a holistic view of the market. The tool is easy to use - just select the industry you’re interested in to see a sample of the keywords we track for that industry. Then, compare searches for those terms with price performa...

Posted by Philip Brittan, Director of Product Management Around Google Finance, stock pages get a lot of attention, and with good reason. With all those highly customizable charts, news flags, and key company statistics, we’re big fans of them too. But everyone knows individual stocks alone do not a successful portfolio make. That’s where mutual funds come in. These bundles of investment securities are one of the most popular investment tools around, and that’s why at Google Finance we put a lot of effort into our mutual funds coverage as well. But in case you’ve been distracted by the glitz and glamor of the individual stock pages, here’s a quick rundown of mutual funds on Google Finance. To view mutual fund pages, simply search for the fund’s symbol in the Google Finance search box in the same way you’d look for an individual security. You’ll notice that these pages look significantly different from individual securities pages. The mutual fund page is full of relevant research infor...

Posted by Brian Shih, Product Manager The Google Finance Stock Screener is one of the most powerful tools for financial research on the site. Save yourself some research time by letting the Stock Screener tell you exactly what you want! The Google Finance team has been listening to your feedback on Product Ideas , and we see a strong interest in this feature so we want to share our best practices for getting the most out of this tool. The Stock Screener allows you to sort using a wide range of criteria - including a number of options you may not be familiar with yet. So even if you already use it, keep reading to learn new tips and tricks. Getting Started The Stock Screener can be accessed in two ways: From the left hand navigation bar on the homepage, or From a company page. Scroll down to ‘Key stats and ratios’ along the right hand side and click the ‘Screen stocks with similar metrics’ link. This will automatically fetch companies with similar P/E Ratios and Returns on Equity (TTM)...