Research Guides: Company & industry information: Historical share prices

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Historical share prices

Australian Stock Exchange

ASX Group (formerly Australian Stock Exchange) [external website]
Get the latest share prices as well as price history charts for the last 10 years on the ASX Group's website.
There's approximately a 20 minute delay.
Factiva [eresource]
Use Factiva to locate share prices for "Companies/Markets" section. You can access daily prices up to the past 2 years and weekly or monthly prices up to the past 5 years.
Factiva has limited coverage of Australian companies and does not contain company profiles for all Australian companies.
Morningstar DatAnalysis [eresource]
Find daily share prices for both listed and delisted companies on the ASX from 1 January 2000 and month end prices from January 1988 including opening, closing, high and low prices, market capitalisation and shares on issue.
Sydney Morning Herald (SMH and Sun - Herald) Archive 1955 - Feb 1995 [eresource]
Use the Sydney Morning Herald to find daily share prices of selected major companies from 1955 - 1995 published in the Share Lists.
Sydney Morning Herald Library Edition (2006 - current) [eresource]
Use the Sydney Morning Herald to find daily share prices of selected major companies from 2006 - current published in the Share Lists.
Trove Digitised newspapers [external website]
Search Trove to find daily share prices listed in Australian newspapers up to 1955. Use terms such as "Share Lists".

Sydney Stock Exchange official publications

Monthly stock & share list [catalogue record]
Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 14, 1914) - Vol. 3, no. 87 (March 16, 1937)
Sydney Stock Exchange official gazette [catalogue record]
Vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1937) - Vol. 28, no. 11 (November 1964)
Sydney Stock Exchange Limited gazette [catalogue record]
Vol. 30, no. 1 (February 28, 1966) - Vol. 35, no. 12 (December 1971)
Issues between December 1964 - February 27, 1996 are not available
Daily schedule [catalogue record]
Aug. 24, 1993-Mar. 21, 1995 : impf.
Weekly summary
Aug. 1993-Mar. 1995
Weekly diary [catalogue record]
Aug. 30, 1993-Feb. 1994 Aug. 1994-Mar. 23, 1995

Sydney Stock Exchange other publications

Joseph Palmer & Son's monthly share list [catalogue record]
June 15, 1893; Feb. 17, 1896; Apr. 23, 1925; Oct 17, 1929.
Stock & share list and prices current : issued monthly / by G. H. Partridge. [catalogue record]
No. 2 (July 1892)

Also, check publications with the Subject: Stocks--Australia--Periodicals

Melbourne Stock Exchange

The Stock Exchange official record [catalogue record]
Vol. 24, no. 1 (January 1931) - Vol. 28, no. 1 (January 1935)
Vol. 31 no. 1 (January 1938) - Vol. 55, no. 1 (February 1962)
The Stock Exchange of Melbourne official record [catalogue record]
Vol. 55, no. 2 (February 1962) - Vol. 64, no. 12 (December 1971)

Did you know?

You can find prospectus for a company in the Library's Australian Stock Exchange Collection. The prospectus can be useful for finding float prices of a particular company.