Company Financials

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer Being a British bloke I am particularly pleased to announce the launch of Google Finance in the UK ( http://finance.google.co.uk) . Now it's easier for us Brits to get our own European public and private company information as well as UK mutual fund data. In addition you can find GBP currency quotes on the home page, so we can feel smug about how much cheaper everything will be when we visit the U.S. The local UK business news will give you the latest information about the European markets and we will be improving the relevance of stories and speed of news delivery even more over the coming months. This UK launch is the second in a series of local versions of the Google Finance site, following Google Finance Canada, which launched last summer. We have received many requests to bring this service to other countries around the world, and will be working to do that this year. Kudos to the small crew of engineers on the Finance site who have...

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 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...

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!