Company Financials

Posted by Andrey Khorlin, Google Finance 20% Engineer We've gotten a lot of great feedback and suggestions on how to improve our charts. In response, today we're unveiling an updated UI as well as some new tools. The new chart UI makes it easier to compare stocks, indices and even mutual funds. In the "compare" tab, we provide some suggestions on what you might like to compare a stock with, such as industry competitors or general market indices. Or feel free to add your own stock, index or mutual fund. In addition, we have a bunch of new features to help analyze public companies. First, you can now "link to chart" with all of your settings preserved. For example, take a look at this 2-year comparison between Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF ( VWO ) and S&P 500. Copy and paste the link from the "Link To Chart" tab, then send a link to your friend or include it in your blog. Another feature we've recently added is support for logarithmic scale, ...

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager One of our favorite testers for Google Finance features is also a member of a fantastic local singing group, The Richter Scales , in San Francisco. They put the following video and song together to help us all take the edge out of the subprime meltdown. Enjoy!

Posted by Marianne Berkovich, User Experience Researcher, Google Finance I've recently joined the Google Finance team as a user experience researcher. My role is to observe, talk with, and otherwise hang out with people using Google Finance. Simply put, we want to learn how you use the site and how we can improve it. Your comments on this blog and through the Help Center are great sources of feedback; our research activities are another way you can share your thoughts with us. All of these activities help us to get more focused insight on a particular topic -- for example, how you use portfolios, or what type of community features you'd like to see. Our research activities might include: - surveys - remote or in-person usability studies - field studies (at your home or office) Please sign up if you're interested in participating in upcoming research projects.

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome We now have historical daily prices for LSE stocks (like Vodafone or British Airways ) back to 1996. You'll note that splits have been imported, but dividends have not. Dividends will follow along shortly. If you notice any problems, please let us know .

Posted by Ben Softness, Google Finance Support Lead As part of our continuing effort to provide quick and easily accessible answers to your concerns and questions about Google Finance, we recently launched our brand new online help center. You can find the help center by clicking "About Google Finance" at the bottom of any Google Finance page or by pointing your browser to http://www.google.com/support/finance. Whether you want to learn how to use a particular feature or seek information about how Google Finance works, the help center is your best resource. Plus, we've listed the five most common questions and made the entire site searchable from any help center page, so accessing the information that's most relevant to you is easier than ever. If you have feedback, we'd love to hear from you. While we can't promise an answer to every message we receive, know that we read everything you send us and that we use your feedback to improve Google Finance.

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer When we study how people make and gather notes when researching companies online, almost everyone tends to u se a word processor, a spreadsheet, or (sadly) s craps of paper . Whatever they use, there seems to be consensus that they're generally dissatisfied with the approach and tools they use. We have something you may be unaware of which could solve some of these same problems. It's called Google Notebook . Key features: It uses a browser plugin -- you can make notes no matter what website you're on. Create a notebook for each company you're researching to stay organized. Collaborate on notebooks with specific friends, coworkers, clients, investment club members. Search your notes to locate anything easily. No typing needed -- just highlight the text on the screen and drop it into your notes with one click. Visit the Google Notebook website (http://www.google.com/notebook/) or take the Google Notebook tour . Once you d...

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer There are some great Finance gadgets available on iGoogle (personalized Google search page), but it can be challenging to find the best Finance gadgets. Recently the iGoogle team have introduced the 'Share tab' feature which allows you to share a whole tab of gadgets. This has allowed us to pull together a collection of some of our favorite iGoogle gadgets and share them with you. If you click on the link below you will see an invitation to create a new iGoogle tab. Add a Google Finance recommended iGoogle tab Go ahead and click on the blue 'Add to iGoogle' button and it will create the new tab for you with these suggested gadgets. You should see something similar to the screenshot below. Now every time you do a web search you can view a quick overview of the market and see what is moving and shaking in your portfolios One enhancement I would recommend is to add some Finance RSS feeds to the Google reader gadget. If you have ...