KayceeSue I appreciate your response and understand that even groups within Microsoft are burdened with budgets! I will say that in my view the value returned by Stockhistory needs to be adjusted for dividends otherwise it's a error - or bug. I hate to sound so extreme on this but I don't see any "use case" for a value returned that's not adjusted for splits *and* dividends. Seems to me the only reason you'd want a historical price is to evaluate performance over time. As I've said before if the value isn't adjusted then it's just not just useful it's actually misleading. Currently I use a custom excel add-in to get price by date (and have for years) the add-in provides a function that essentially scrapes Yahoo's site and returns the adjusted value - and that's all it returns. At one point I remember a user asking for the non-adjusted price and the consensus answer was "why would you want that"?
I don't really care so much about having the function return dividends as an option - that would be very cumbersome to factor that in - I'd probably keep using my add-in.