Boston Public Library
Finding Historical Stock Prices
Kirstein Business Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
617-859-2142

Finding the price of a stock on a certain date in the past does not necessarily mean rifling through old copies of the Wall Street Journal (although we do keep 10 years worth). The Kirstein Business Library provides several more efficient resources for looking up historical stock prices:

• Standard & Poor's Daily Stock Price Record 1962-present  
Provides daily volume, high, low, and closing prices for NYSE and AMEX stocks from 1962 to present and for NASDAQ/OTC stocks since 1968.

• Wall Street Journal  
Includes daily closing prices plus a range of highest and lowest prices for the past 52 weeks. Kirstein keeps 10 years of daily editions. As of 1/4/2007 the WSJ will only carry prices for the largest 1500 stocks, and the top 500 mutual funds.

• Commercial & Financial Chronicle/Bank & Quotation Record 1928-87  (microfilm)

To obtain prices for years and stocks not listed in the above sources, there are other resources at Kirstein which do not report daily prices, but can usually quote a price reasonably close to the date you are searching for. These sources include:

 

• Moody's/Mergent Manuals. 1909- present  
• Standard & Poor's Stock Guide. 1943-77 (quarterly issues only); 1978- present  
• Moody's/Mergent Handbook of Common Stocks (NYSE). 1955- present [provides 7 years of annual price ranges]
     
• Moody's/Mergent Handbook of NASDAQ Stocks. 1981- present [provides 7 years of annual price ranges]
     
• OTC Market Chronicle. 1969-89  (basement: row 8)
• National Stock Summary. 1939-2003 present  
• Standard Stock Offerings. 1926-39  

Click here for more information on Tracing Old Stocks at Kirstein