Symbol Lookup For Charts

Now imagine once you have moved your cursor across the chart and analyzed the basic price movement of the stock, you decide you want to see what the stock chart for one of ExxonMobil’s competitors looks like. You settle on Chevron, but you don’t know the ticker symbol for the company and can’t enter it in the field to GET CHART. This is not a problem. As long as you know the name—or at least part of the name—of the stock you want to analyze, you can use the SYMBOL LOOKUP feature on your Yahoo! Finance Chart.

The SYMBOL LOOKUP feature allows you to enter the name of the company to find the company’s ticker symbol. To use the feature, hover your mouse over the SYMBOL LOOKUP button and click your cursor in the blank field that appears below the button. Once you see your cursor flashing in the blank field, type in the name of the company you wish to analyze. After you have finished typing, hit your ENTER key or click on the LOOK UP button. If, by chance, you want to analyze a stock that is not traded on a U.S. or Canadian stock exchange, you will need to change the drop-down menu to the left of the LOOK UP button from “U.S. & Canada” to “World Market.”

After you have clicked on the button, the SYMBOL LOOKUP feature will list all of the stocks that are relevant to the key word(s) you typed into the blank field. So if you had typed in the word “chevron,” you would see a search result at the bottom of the window that gives you the SYMBOL, NAME, MARKET and INDUSTRY for each stock that met your search criteria. In this case, the information would read, “CVX, Chevron Corp, NYSE, Major Integrated Oil & Gas.”

Looking over this information, you conclude that this is the company you wish to analyze. To do so, instead of going back to the blank field in the upper left corner of the page to enter the ticker symbol, all you have to do is click on the SYMBOL LOOKUP result. Once you click on the result, you will see a chart of Chevron showing all of the same information you saw on the ExxonMobil chart.

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