How do I download a stock price in Excel 2013? Is there an equivalent to Google Doc's GoogleFinance spreadsheet function?

Question

In a Google Docs spreadsheet, I can use this cell formula:

=GoogleFinance("GOOG", "price")

to download the latest price of a stock. Is there an equivalent function in Excel 2013?

Earlier versions of Excel had a smart tag feature that downloaded a ton of data for each ticker (too much, in fact, if you just need the price), and I've seen sources that suggest the Bing Finance app for Excel 2013. Unfortunately this has been discontinued.

Is there a simple way to do this? I literally just need the most recent price, and I don't care if it's delayed, comes from Yahoo Finance, etc. Presumably I could write VBA code to download a CSV file from YF, parse it and so on, but I'm hoping to avoid creating a macro-enabled workbook.

Answer 1

You can use a UDF like this -

Option Explicit

Public Function GetTickerPrice(ByVal ticker As String) As Double

    Dim IE As Object
    Dim pageData As Object

    Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    Dim URL As String
    URL = "http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockdetails/fi-126.1." & ticker & ".NAS?symbol=" & ticker & "=PRFIMQ"

    IE.Navigate URL

     Do Until IE.ReadyState >= 4
            DoEvents
     Loop

     Application.Wait Now + TimeSerial(0, 0, 5)

     Set pageData = IE.document

     GetTickerPrice = pageData.getElementsByClassName("precurrentvalue")(0).innertext

     Set IE = Nothing
     Set pageData = Nothing
End Function

Now you can use GetTickerPrice("GOOG") and get the current price.

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I did take this over to Codereview.SE for some input.

Answer 2

There are four Stock apps in the Office Store at the moment. Two of them are free :

Stock Connector

Stock Tile

Answer 3

There is an Add-In called Stock Quote Add-In For Excel 2013 which does this, and has a version for 2013. Personally I could not get it to work, but it has been around for a few years so it was probably just me.