historical stock data: PE, earnings

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michaelt
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historical stock data: PE, earnings

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Anyone know where I can obtain historical stock PE data, and earnings and price data? (already checked CSI -- they don't have it).

thanks.
-Michael
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michaelt wrote: Anyone know where I can obtain historical stock PE data, and earnings and price data? (already checked CSI -- they don't have it).

thanks.
-Michael
I looked for this a few years ago and I found three options for historical data.

1. Get a product like Value Line and export the data each day for years on end. After many years you have some data. I have been doing this for 8 years and now I have some data!

2. Pay through the nose for data from eg CRSP http://www.crsp.com/ or Global Financial Data https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.html. I called GFD and from memory subscriptions start at $50k/year. They target the boutique investment firm on up, not retail investors.

Tim
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ask an analyst.... their numbers are always backward looking!
Seriously.....find someone with a Bloomberg maybe
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Re: historical stock data: PE, earnings

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michaelt wrote:Anyone know where I can obtain historical stock PE data, and earnings and price data? (already checked CSI -- they don't have it).

thanks.
-Michael
There is a fair bit of data here

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/Ne ... /data.html
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Thank you. It looks interesting.

-Michael
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