Watchlist Columns
You can setup the columns in the Watchlist’s “Prices” and “Fundamentals” views to show the data that is useful for your investment analysis.
Right-click (ctrl-click for Mac users) any Watchlist column header and select Configure Columns…. You can read more about configuring columns in the section, Configuring Columns.
Watchlist’s “Prices” and “Fundamentals” views support the following columns.
| Column Name | Column Description |
|---|---|
| Symbol | Stock or Ticker Symbol |
| Symbol* | Stock or Ticker Symbol without the Google Finance exchange prefix. |
| Name | Company name |
| Date Added | Date added to the list |
| Comment | User Comment |
| Alert | An icon depicting whether an alert is set on this item. An empty field means no alert is set. Set alerts and raised alerts have different icons. |
| Currency | The currency of the item. |
| Ask | Asking price |
| Ask Size | Asking price size |
| Bid | Bidding price |
| Bid Size | Bidding price size |
| Day% | Today’s percentage change |
| Change | Today’s point change |
| Day Hi | Today’s high |
| Day Lo | Today’s low |
| Last | Price of the most recent quote |
| Last Date | Date of most recent quote |
| Last DateTime | Date and time of most recent quote |
| Last Size | Size of last trade |
| Open | Price at open |
| Close | Previous closing price |
| OpenSignal | Last trade price minus open price. Used for determining the daily trend of a stock. |
| OpenSignal % | Last trade price minus open price as a percentage of the open price. Used for determining the daily trend of a stock. |
| Gap | Open price minus previous close price. Used for determining the daily trend of a stock. |
| Gap % | Open price minus previous close price as a percentage of the open price. Used for determining the daily trend of a stock. |
| Volume | Today’s volume |
| Vol Avg 3M | Average daily volume of the last 3 months. (YF only) |
| Vol % Avg 3M | Today’s volume as a percentage of the average 3 month daily volume (YF only) |
| 52Wk Lo | 52 week low price |
| 52Wk Hi | 52 week high price |
| 52Wk % | Current price as percentage of 52 week high/low range. 100% means stock is at 52 week high; 0% means stock is at 52 week low. |
| % < 52Wk Hi | The percentage that the stock has fallen since reaching its 52 week high price. |
| % > 52Wk Lo | The percentage that the stock has risen since reaching its 52 week low price. |
| Price Tgt 1Y | 1 year price target (YF only) |
| 50D MovAvg | 50 day moving average (YF only) |
| 200D MovAvg | 200 day moving average (YF only) |
| DivPay Date | Dividend pay date (YF only) |
| ExDiv Date | Ex-dividend date (YF only) |
| Dividend | Trailing 12 month dividend per share |
| Yield | Trailing 12 month dividend yield |
| DivPayoutRatio | The percentage of earnings paid to shareholders in dividends, using current EPS and trailing 12-month dividends. |
| FwdDiv | Forward 12 month dividend per share, computed from the last known dividend payment. |
| FwdYield | Forward 12 month dividend yield, computed from the last known dividend payment. |
| FwdPayoutRatio | The percentage of earnings paid to shareholders in dividends, using current EPS and the forward 12-month dividends. |
| Mkt Cap | Market capitalization |
| Float | Float: number of shares of a company that are freely bought and sold without restrictions by the public. (YF only) |
| Shares Outstanding | Shares outstanding: number of stocks issued by a company, both public and restricted. (YF only) |
| Short Ratio | Short ratio (YF only) |
| EPS | Earnings per share |
| EPS Est Cur Yr | Current year EPS estimate (YF only) |
| EPS Est Next Yr | Next year EPS estimate (YF only) |
| EPS Est Next Qtr | Next quarter EPS estimate (YF only) |
| P/E | Price to earnings ratio |
| Fwd PE (Cur Yr) | Forward PE current year (YF only) |
| Fwd PE (Next Yr) | Forward PE next year (YF only) |
| PEG | Price to earnings over growth (5 year) ratio (YF only) |
| PEG (1Yr) | Price to earnings over growth (1 year) ratio (YF only) |
| Book Val | Book value |
| Price/Book | Price to book |
| Sales/Share | Sales (i.e. revenue) per share |
| Price/Sales | Price to sales |
| EBITDA | Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization |
| Exchange | Stock exchange |
| 1W % | Percentage change in share price over the last 1 week |
| 4W % | Percentage change in share price over the last 4 weeks |
| 3M % | Percentage change in share price over the last 3 months |
| 6M % | Percentage change in share price over the last 6 months |
| 9M % | Percentage change in share price over the last 9 months |
| YTD % | Percentage change in share price since the beginning of the year |
| 1Y % | Percentage change in share price over the last year |
| 2Y % | Percentage change in share price over the last 2 years |
| 5Y % | Percentage change in share price over the last 5 years |
| 10Y % | Percentage change in share price over the last 10 years |
| Contract High | The highest price at which this option contract has traded |
| Contract Low | The lowest price at which this option contract has traded |
| Exp Date | The option’s expiration date |
| Open Interest | Total number of option contracts that have not closed on a particular day |
| Strike Price | The price at which the option contract can be exercised |
| Current Ratio | The stocks current ratio. (GF only) |
| LT Debt to Assets | Long term debt to assets ratio (GF only) |
| Total Debt to Assets | Total debt to assets ratio (GF only) |
| LT Debt to Equity | Long term debt to equity ratio (GF only) |
| Total Debt to Equity | Total debt to equity ratio (GF only) |
| Return on Avg Equity | Return on average equity ratio (GF only) |
| Return on Avg Assets | Return on average assets ratio (GF only) |
| ROI | Return on investment (GF only) |
| Beta | The stocks current beta (GF only) |
| Net Profit Margin | The company’s net profit margin (GF only) |
| Gross Margin | The company’s gross margin (GF only) |
| EBITD Margin | The company’s Earnings Before Interest, Tax and Depreciation margin (GF only) |
| Operating Margin | The company’s operating margin (GF only) |
| Employees | The company’s employee count (GF only) |
| Revenue | The company’s revenue (GF only) |
| Net Income | The company’s net income (GF only) |
| Sector | The general segmemt (sector) of the economy in which this company operates. |
| Industry | The specific segment of the general sector of the economy in which this company operates. |
| MktCap | The market cap type (Mega, Large, Small, Micro, Nano). |
| 🙂 | A graphical importance setting for this ticker symbol. |
| Sec Type | The security type (stock, bond, etf… or custom value) for this ticker symbol. |
| Target | An editable numerical value representing the target price of the security. |
| Target % | The current Last price as a percentage of the Target price. |
| Target Dsct | The target discount – difference between the Target price and the Last price as a percentage. |
| Watchlist | Name of the watchlist to which this item belongs. |
| Watch Start | Price at which you started watching this item. |
| Watch Change | Change since you started watching |
| Watch % | Percentage change since you started watching |
| Watch Yield | Dividend yield based on today’s dividend / watch start price |
| Watch Days | Number of days since the item was added to the watchlist (Date Added column). |