<p>One possibility would be to use <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wolfram Alpha</a>.</p>

<p>If I type the search phrase <code>market capitalization msft 3rd December 2010</code> then the search engine returns the following:</p>

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<p>If you use Wolfram Mathematica on your PC then you can import the data directly for processing using the <code>FinancialData</code> command (see <a href="https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FinancialData.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>).</p>

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<p>I want to know the market value (market capitalization) of a company on a particular day in the recent past (within the past 5 years). How can I do this, may be with the help of Google Finance or Yahoo Finance or some other tool?</p>

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# Market Value of a publicly traded company

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-09-01)

I want to know the market value (market capitalization) of a company on a particular day in the recent past (within the past 5 years). How can I do this, may be with the help of Google Finance or Yahoo Finance or some other tool?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-09-01. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

One possibility would be to use [Wolfram Alpha](http://www.wolframalpha.com/).

If I type the search phrase `market capitalization msft 3rd December 2010` then the search engine returns the following:

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/ZAIZY.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/ZAIZY.png)

If you use Wolfram Mathematica on your PC then you can import the data directly for processing using the `FinancialData` command (see [here](https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FinancialData.html)).


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