Historical Stock Quotes

Hello,
All of the major free online stock price services, BigCharts, Nasdaq, etc, drop historical coverage when a company's capital structure changes. This includes going private, bankruptcy, delisting from NYSE to pink sheets, etc. The Daily Stock Price Record is the best bet to avoid going through a broker. (Seattle Public Library has DSRP back to 1972 -- I do not know whether they will serve a Beaverton resident directly. Read on until you see the part about ILL) Also we can use the Wall Street Journal microfilm here. Subscription sources like CRSP, Datastream and Mergent Online will have data but they get pricy fast. Multnomah county librarians also routinely look in one of their subscriptions: New York Times Historical database -- with mixed results.

ILL could be utilized here if the quote cannot be located in the microfilm archives of WSJ, NYT, or Oregonian, or BigCharts, Nasdaq, etc, here at the Beaverton Library. Since approximately 2005 there is a drop off in printing stock quotes in the daily paper, so don't leave empty handed -- you could ask the librarian for an ILL form. Never know, maybe some nice library will look it up and do a photocopy request for you.