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dattmuffy15
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Sep 13, 2024

STOCK HISTORY FUNCTION OPEN PRICE FOR ONE DATE IN ONE CELL ONLY

HOW DO I GET THE STOCK PRICE FOR MICROSOFT MSFT 5 YEARS AGO @ OPEN OR CLOSE IN ONE CELL ONLY WITHOUT THE OBNOXIOUS ARRAY.   HOW IS ONE OF LARGEST MARKET CAPS ON EARTH NOT USER FRIENDLY ?  
  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    Sep 14, 2024

    dattmuffy15 

    The date 5 years ago could be not trading date. For such dates stock prices are not published, you need to take latest previous trading date. Using STOCKHISTORY that could be

    =TAKE( STOCKHISTORY("MSFT", EDATE(TODAY(),-12*5)-10, EDATE(TODAY(),-12*5),0,0,1), -1)

    which returns one-cell value for the closest trading date 5 years ago.

     

    Microsoft Excel is not specialized software to work with market prices. It gives some basics and lot of other functions around. Combining them you could receive desired result.

     

    Instead of hardcoding date, close or open price, etc., you may write your own function to parametrise about depends on your own needs.

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