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I have created a feature request directly to the Microsoft Excel team to recoup this lost functionality.

The best way for them to notice this plea to get stock price functionality back into Excel is to upvote my posted request.

If it gets enough votes, Microsoft will take a hard look and has already had a great track record of addressing the most popular requests.

Breakdown Of The Yahoo Finance Query URL The premise behind how you query stock information in your web browser ultimately boils down to the URL address.

Here is the standard URL address formula with two inputs (the Ticker Symbol and the Data Type ).

Ticker Symbol f Data Type A Few Examples To get this data from a web address into an Excel spreadsheet, we can use the WEBSERVICE() function.

Ill also wrap a NUMBERVALUE() function around to convert the import text from Yahoo Finance into a numerical value we can use inside Excel.

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Example 1: Pull The Current Stock Price for Microsofts Stock NUMBERVALUE(WEBSERVICE( MSFT f l1 )) Example 2: Pull The Current Dividend for Microsofts Stock NUMBERVALUE(WEBSERVICE( MSFT f d )) Example 3: Pull change From 52 Week Low for Microsoft This one is a little bit trickier because the results from the url have a plus sign or a negative sign in front of the resulting change which the NUMBERVALUE() function does not like.

In the following formula, I am taking the result from Yahoo finance and removing the first character (ie -) from the result.

NUMBERVALUE(REPLACE(WEBSERVICE( MSFT f j6 ),1,1,)) Example 4: Link your Ticker Symbols to a Spreadsheet Cell If you want to use the same formula for a bunch of different ticker symbols, you can link your formula using a cell reference.

Here is the same formula from Example 1, however it is now point to a ticker symbol in cell A2.

NUMBERVALUE(WEBSERVICE( A2 f l1 )) Data Type Tables Yahoo has a whole collection of data points you can pull about a specific ticker symbol.

Here is a list of the variables and what they pull in: Stock Pricing Averages.

Therefore, you will need to manually recalculate your sheet (keyboard shortcut F9 ) in order to refresh your formulas.

VBA Macro To Pull Historical Data ALERT As of May 2017, it has been reported that Yahoo has terminated the iChart platform which allowed us to pull historical information into Excel for free.

Due to this recent event, the below VBA code to pull historical data from Yahoo finance will not long work unless they bring back the old API method.

Yahoo Finance has a ton of historical data for stocks and harnessing VBAs automating power to pull this data in seconds can allow you to perform some unbelievable tailor-made analysis.

Lets take this very simple setup in Excel where we have the Stock Ticker in Cell B2 and the StartEnd date range you want to pull in Cell C4 and Cell F4 respectively.

There is a little extra clean up you need to do since the query is pulled into excel as a CSV (comma separated values) data set.

ALSO NOTE: Through some testing, it seems you will need to have at least one extra column in your table (ie the black section in the image above) in order to retain the Table Object after the VBA performs the TextToColumns function.

You can just leave this extra column blank if you do not need to perform any extra calculations.

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