Yahoo Finance: Stocks & News Reviews

by Worst Updates Known To Apps

You can’t connect your brokerage account. It will not fully connect it or it will tell you it is unavailable all together. Sometimes it won’t even let you add your brokerage account. IF you do get it to connect it won’t last for more than 30 minutes if it ever fully connects at all. Then repeated customer service attempts will not fix anything. They’re unresponsive and nothing ever gets fixed. I’ve also tried using the price alert feature which also does not work. I have my notifications on and never have I seen a price alert notification yet when I open YahooFinance it will say a price alert was executed days before. What could I possibly use YahooFinance for that I cannot find on my actual brokerage app then? .. the answer is NOTHING. YahooFinance is pointless, never works, bugs, frozen, unresponsive customer service and the list goes on. I deleted YahooFinance for the 4th time. I don’t know why I keep giving this a chance but never again.

by SpeakingMyMindHere

The way YahooFinance handles reporting of abuse is an affront to free speech!! Please fix this problem! A lot of great posts are being deleted. Some users are apparently flagging the posts using the “Report Abuse” option which seems to delete those posts for everyone. Here are some suggestions to fix this problem… 1) Users should be able to mark another user as a “trusted user” and if that person’s post get reported as abuse, everyone that trusts that user should still be able to see that post. 2) There needs to be an option for a user to “Hide This Post”. Being able to hide posts a user doesn’t like, instead of just the Report Abuse option (which affects everyone), or mute (which hides ALL posts and not just the one they don’t like) would probably decrease this behavior because it would give people an individual choice to clean up messages they don’t like. Related to this, it would be great to “Show all Posts” for a specific user in case a post is hidden by accident.

by WizenBen

I have used Yahoo Finance for over 5 years on my iPad for my Watchlist. Then I would rate it 4 to 5 stars consistently until the past month or so.

For a Homepage, it should be a summary of the market indices and the Watchlist in spreadsheet form where I can quickly scan 30 to 40 stocks at a time which Yahoo Finance used to do. Then a week or so ago, the market indices would disappear when I would tap My Watchlist to see in spreadsheet form. Now I have the market indices, but my Watchlist is in a single column where I have to scroll down for 2 minutes to review some 200 stocks on my list.

Before I could glance at the spreadsheet form and the blinking of the red and green tags of prices updating would give me some sense of how actively the stock is being traded. Then I could quickly tap on that stock for more detail. I cannot be constantly scrolling a single column list, and is nonsensical to get a feel of the market.

Bring back the older interface. If you need to improve it, have the market indices row stay frozen while I can scroll a few times only to scan my entire watchlist. Give the user the ability to move or group our stocks in a certain order. Right now older inputted stocks are at the bottom and newer ones at the top. I would like to group certain stocks scattered throughout my list together without having to form another watchlist. That is all I have to say right now. Improve functionality.

by Grumpier With Age

Im a reasonably big fan of Yahoo Finance. It’s a pretty good source of information. But it’s a little lacking in instructions on how to use it. But I’ve muddled my way through.

l’m probably like most people, I’ve learned to navigate along the way and make it work for me. But when the format changes, for no apparent reason (from my perspective), I become less efficient in accomplishing what I want to see and do and then it’s back to the learning curve (again with a lack of instructions or a guide). This causes me frustration-like most of us, I’m a creature of habit and as I get older, I don’t do change as well as when I was younger.

While I struggle with change that “makes it better”, I don’t like different, especially if it’s only different but not better. Different is not necessarily better. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. Stop messing with it because you can. Familiarity is comfortable, change/different but not better is stressful and uncomfortable.

by Was Hopeful

UPDATE: Market includes at the top of the dashboard are back. Thanks, devs. Now, can we have a feature that allows filtering all news stories that are videos? I don’t like having to watch a 7 minute video when I can scan a text article in 30 seconds instead. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Constantly playing videos in the right panel and ruining the dashboard view that showed markets at the top with my lists underneath makes YahooFinance useless for me now. This will not be changed back by Yahoo so the only option is to delete YahooFinance from my iPad. Developer responses to others with this complaint show that they don’t even understand what users are complaining about. CLUELESS. Well, this was fixed for a while but the wacky screen layout is back. Stop messing with a good thing. Seeing market tickers at the top while viewing my lists is the most informative view and it needs to come back to stay.

by Mike24737

I’d like a more clear option for my portfolio if I’m paying monthly. I have options trades and spreads that are just an eyesore after linking my broker, therefore the risk analysis is nonexistent for me because it won’t read it correctly. I’m not sure what happened but I started my trial and was charged immediately, definitely didn’t like that. It’s okay, the news is basically useless, and I’m not a fan of the TV either. I guess I like the whole idea of what yahoo finance plus COULD do for me and may be doing for others so I’ll leave 3 stars for now. Yahoo should focus on some trading/options education on their TV as well as analysts past % of being correct. Hearing and seeing potential down falls all the time is not my idea of speculative or even growth focused portfolios. If these things were fixed and or implemented I’d continue the subscription after my 30 days. No idea where or what yahoo plans on doing from here, would be nice to know what’s in the works. Lastly, the bots spamming bullish or bearish sentiment which are having fake conversations (obvious if you really look for it) is a huge crippling factor. Idk, just letting you all know what I’d like to see, hopefully it helps with some ideas. Maybe put my disgustingly grammar post up front in your next monthly meeting with the platform programmers. Lol thanks

by Robert5681

As far as the mechanics of YahooFinance , it works great. It keeps up fairly well with the current stock prices. It is easy to add, edit, or delete stock symbols from your watch list. There is also a little chart that provides the price direction of the stock although sometimes it is a little behind. The news section falls short of expectations though. It does provide links to articles to read but some are from other news sources that you have to subscribe to in order to read them. The Yahoo Finance articles have a definite leftist liberal bias and really don’t belong on a business app. Whoever the editor is, needs to be schooled on what is relevant business news and what is just a hit piece against the other side. The news articles also come too late to know what is going on if the market is making a big move. So I suggest that you spend less time promoting your political agenda and more time reporting what is currently going on in the market, like real business news, so traders can actually stay informed with information that affects their investments. You also should have a remark section on your articles so readers can give you feedback.

by Kh2otrader

Thank you for the response. I’m happy you at least responded. But you said you “are trying to figure out how to incorporate price & %” Guess my question is why do you have to figure it out when you already had it on old version? You had it perfect & had it figured out; but changed it for the worse. Bottom line, I’m glad you responded & sincerely HOPE you actually DO take it seriously & change it back ASAP! I won’t use (and I know many others that feel the same) until it’s corrected. Thanks again & I hope you return the POINTS along with % soon. Thank you!!

You changed the “points” the Dow, S&P, etc from the main page at the top. Only listing the % up or down & NOT the POINTS up or down.
WHY would you take that away?? You made an update , but TOOK AWAY data!?
Financial Professionals use Yahoo finance app to see certain data at a glance. You subtracted data!!!
Does that make sense? Don’t let programmers change things that your audience wants & needs!
Your app used to be better than CNBC, now it’s worse. I will only use CNBC app going forward unless you change and bring back the +/- points. In case you don’t realize what you changed, it used to show -10% AND -200 points. Now, only the %.
Bring the points AND the % back.

by TheGoatBron23

I generally enjoy using Finance. I love its design and the content, but the functionality is just overbearingly poor at times. One can only love an app so much until its practicability becomes detrimental to the user.

Among YahooFinance ’s abilities is the quintessential feature of portfolio tracking. There are two ways to begin tracking your portfolio, either manually or by linking your brokerage. At first thought — I had found a panacea — an app that could solve my task of portfolio tracking along with decent news. The only problem that I have with their portfolio tracking, through the linked brokerage, is that my portfolio is inaccurately represented. The money in my account is noticeably off balance and fails to display my actual balance. The point of a portfolio is to track your assets, which YahooFinance fails to do accurately.

That is my only complaint regarding YahooFinance and I hope my commentary is useful to interested users. 4/5. Decent app.

by Chaselic204

YahooFinance is great for information and researching stocks, and is much better than most brokerage apps for those things. It has good app design and is like a good mix between Robinhood’s ease of use and Fidelity’s information. The news stories in YahooFinance could be improved a lot though, I would suggest making it easier to find and go through on the news on the stock quotes screen, a good example of this is making it similar to the Apple stocks app where the news stories are just a swipe away. Another problem I have with the news stories are that the ads are the same color and font as the actual stories which is confusing at best and misleading at worst. Having a tint around the ad could go a long way to discerning them from the rest of the news stories and is a chance to make it color themed, purple for the light theme, and a lighter gray for the dark theme. Overall this is one of the best apps I’ve seen for finance, I hope you can get back to me and address my concerns, thanks!

by Stock Watchering

Yahoo Finance helps me track simple and complex purchases, trades and portfolios with real-time updates. I like the extensive charting tools and analyst reviews. I also like the news associated with each security being listed below the profile.

They need to fix the bug in the chart comparisons: when you compare multiple stocks in a single chart and change the time period (1M, YTD, etc) the compared stocks do not show the latest trade price while the referenced stock does. This renders the comparison worthless because it is not a fair comparison. Beyond that, I wish I could move the data from one portfolio into another without having to manually re-enter. I like the phone app’s display of pre- and post-market percentage changes while in list view. It would be great be able to see charts of the prices in these sessions. Over all, a very helpful tool!

by BattyPaddy

In addition to my previous review, I think it’s fair to say, that despite how much I dislike YahooFinance, It is in fact the best one available at the time of this writing. I’ve tried every other one. So while I really do wish it was sorted out, it also significantly better than ALL of the others. With that I have to bump it up an additional star to 4 stars. Don’t waste your time looking checking the others.
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When you add in your holdings every time you create a list, it’s treated as other holdings. So if you organize by industry, like energy, biotech etc.. and you then have a list for all of your holdings, 1000 shares of stock a Your energy list, becomes 2000 shares in your holdings list because you have stock a in two list 1000 shares each. I definitely will not link to my brokerage account because yahoo, Verizon..

by Nconforti

Overall YahooFinance has gotten much more powerful with time, but is not quite at the place where I’d like it to be. First, while new features were added to make YahooFinance have all the content as its desktop counterpart, some small UI tweaks are needed to make the financials data and other in-depth sections easier to view on mobile devices because of the smaller screen and massive amount of information. And I would like to see a better news feed that incorporates a more varied amount of sources. Also, I’d like to see the font switched to the native iOS font as I think it is more appealing, and switch the advertisement system to have less intrusive banner ads instead of the way the ads are currently presented. Other than that, YahooFinance is an essential for keeping track of the market.

by 3 Cameras

I enjoy YahooFinance; watch it most time & it with Facebook same time ; thanks for this service. Look at everyday With virus going around be safe & God bless.i like it has conversations to read what others find out in there research I hope it true not false , God Bless again & Be safe to all in the world we really are all visiting here to embrace each other of all colors when u really think abut it we are on inside the same with red love or red blood & I believe our GoD Watching is all actions are words I sure he disappointed when we if we go to heaven doesn’t separate by race I sure that a tough subject love all in ur circle of life all visiting here don’t hate outside it much better, easier to show peace go live . It SAD to watch on TV show HATE in NY & others states .

by Appuser

UPDATE 1/17: Looks like the Holdings section is back, so I once again give YahooFinance 5 stars.

I really do love YahooFinance and would give it 5 stars, but all of a sudden my linked holdings account no longer appears at the top above my stock symbols list. I have closed YahooFinance . Rebooted my phone. Deleted and reinstalled YahooFinance then rebooted my phone and nothing works. This morning I opened YahooFinance saw my holdings were back, but before I could get excited, the holdings disappeared once again. Not sure what is going on but until my holdings are permanently showing on my screen once again YahooFinance is useless to me. If this can be fixed I would gladly give it 5 stars once again.

by Dradityagupta1

I just love yahoo finance. It is the best finance app, which is the know fact. I love it, use it, rely on it, read news from it, have my own portfolio on it. But I have one request.
Please, I would live if you could make the graph more easily workable. Now when i click on the graph to check the prices of the stock in last couple days or week. It opens up a new page and then it is not very handy. Difficult to operate. This is the only part that I love of the ios Stocks app. Their graphs are very very handy and easy to work with. If at yahoo finance you could do the same, that would be just amazing and i will not have to go back to the ios stocks app for it. Currently i use the ios stocks app to move and see the rates of the stock on the graph, for everything else I use yahoo finance.
Hoping you guys read the request and work it.
I still gave 5 stars as i love yahoo finance, it is really really good with all the info and details. Just if you can fix this part, it will be a slam dunk.

by Georgia-Deet-Georgia-Deet...

I am not a person who can see above what’s around the next stock, or my typing skills for that matter. We will not even get me started with my grammar for God sake. I have really enjoyed the information that has truly helped me with my stocks, some good some not so. I am not in the best place to give an opinion as to how much it has helped me individually, I’m not that good so what I can tell you is that without the service that I have received is spot on! I have never been so happy with the all the time, and service I have received. All I can say is this is this, if you have it keep it, if you don’t have it get it as soon as possible you won’t be sorry, and last but not least, everything on the bigger picture it will not let you down. “Sis C”

by KyFlash

I loved YahooFinance But after this last update, no more "grid" view on iPad when in landscape mode. I used to be able to see all of my holdings and see all of the price quotes in three grid rows. It was a wonderful thing and so helpful in monitoring my portfolio. Now after this update, it is pretty much useless for me, unless they fix these issues ASAP. Looks like many others are having the same problem. Please return the grid settings as before, or many will be deleting YahooFinance and looking for a better platform.

*Updated Review* Thank you for correcting the grid view! I can once more use YahooFinance daily as my go to! Thank you for addressing the problem and listening to the many users that were affected. Five Stars!

by Hi_win

Great app. Please fix some obvious bugs.
1) calculated stock total value is different from the holdings view vs individual stock view, the individual stock view doesn’t calculate/track sold off stocks ( negative quantity), but rather ignores them as shorts. Totals are inconsistent, annoying.
2) when scrolling up the list, the bounce feature when list hits the top goes bizarre and jitters. It’s nauseating. Seems to happen when scrolling up slowly. Scrolling up fast works fine. It may be a refresh view related error of some sort. Doesn’t happen every time, but frequently.
3) Suggestion, not a bug. The new font is bad. Seems every thing is emboldened now, makes it difficult to read as the letters are less defined.
4) suggestion. Allow side swipe from a stock view to permit scrolling to next stock on the list. It’s more intuitive that side swiping is to see the next list item rather than more detailed info, like on dating apps.
5) suggestions. Make a dividend payout feature. Since you already have the purchase date and number of shares info. This should be a simple feature. And it increases user engagement to input their stock positions.
6) suggestions. Allow for users to exclude some stock lists from the total holdings info. I’d like to see what my total holdings positions is with and without including my retirement account positions, for example.

by Karlsq

More information available and very intuitive than most .when using other sites I had to come back to Yahoo finance to get complete picture
I would give five stars except so many times I click on a certain story when I get there I am asked to subscribe , even though the same story that needs subscription you can find it for free on another site. Public information should not require subscription.
Very frustrating to click on story then it tells you you need to subscribe, I understand the reason behind it ,but if the story is public knowledge then it should be read without the annoying subscribe first ,if the story is exclusive to that site only then I understand someone need to subscribe. Most of the time it is not Yahoo but others who put the story on Yahoo then ask for subscription before finishing reading the news.

by Jayoppa25

To be clear, I gave the previous version a 5 stars. However, this new version is a total catastrophe! Let me just simply point out a few drawbacks:

1. Comment sections are destroyed! Somehow I can’t even give people thumbs up after this update. Every time I try to give one, it disappears after I leave the page.

2. GIF section is full of bugs! In this new version, it seems to prevent users from searching a GIF with multiple key words! The search will only work with one key word.

3. Comment layout are getting worse and more complicated. Why can’t you just put ‘thumb up’ and ‘thumb down’ symbols right next to the ‘reply’? Now there are lots of blank space between the two and it’s not UI/UX friendly.

4. Why does it have to show ‘1 person is typing’? It sometimes pops out from nowhere, and it is annoying. Again, not UI/UX friendly.

5. Sometimes when I click ‘view more data’, it directs me to ‘view all posts’. It gotta be some kind of bugs, please fix it.

If possible, I would much much prefer the older version. I chose to update because last few updates were great - but this time, it is a nightmare.

by ZFC10

YahooFinance was to be great. For the last couple months it has been the absolute worst. The prices shown are not accurate, they jump around and are usually 1% off of the actual real time prices. This is not due to normal market changes either, I have checked. In the watchlist YahooFinance shows one price, then when you open an individual stock it will jump to a completely different price often 100bps different then what it’s showing on the watch list. This has made YahooFinance complete irrelevant and useless. What good is a stock app that doesn’t show accurate prices? Complete and utter joke. I expect better.

Is there going to be any updates that address this? I would love to hear from the development team on this.

by Mkazimer

I really liked YahooFinance and its features, but the recent versions broke a couple things, so I rated 3 stars (at best) right now.
1. YahooFinance used to total up my portfolio based on the share quantity and basis prices I have entered. But now all I get is a bunch of black/red/green dots where my portfolio total should be. I tried pull-down refreshes and app restarts, but no luck. I cannot get a portfolio total anymore, which was a key feature for me.
2. When I scroll down to read additional news headlines, the scroll pane jumps around every few seconds as I am reading the headlines. This is really annoying.
Both these recent issues really impact YahooFinance ’s usefulness, so now I can rarely stand using it.

by Db7j

I like YahooFinance, but when I open it up, nothing shows up in the news feed. I just wait and wait and wait - until I pull down on the screen at the very top to “refresh” the info and all of the sudden all the news articles show up. So this is a bug. I shouldn’t have to open YahooFinance , scroll down below my watch stocks, only to see no news, and then scroll all the way back up again to pull down on my screen to get the news feed to show up, and then scroll down again to read the news. Please fix this bug so I can save time when using YahooFinance . Thank you!

by Tysto

I deleted and redownloaded this, and a got an updated version that is improved, so I’ve revised this review.
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Good app, and i use it all the time, but some fundamental things are broken or badly designed.

The daily view in the detail chart hasn’t worked for months. (NOW WORKS) And the chart view's year-to-date timeframe doesn’t work. (FIXED) Changing the timing (1 minute vs 5 minutes, etc) doesn’t seem to work generally. Manipulating a chart sometimes makes it flip out and display data from years earlier. (SEEMS FIXED)

Having to switch comments from “Top Reactions” to “Most Recent” every time is annoying. Top reactions just gets gamed by spammers by having bots comment on and upvote the spam.

The comments are dated with “3 days ago”, “2 weeks ago”, and “4 months ago” instead of actual dates, but this isn’t somebody's movie blog. Finance discussions are highly date driven, and i find myself frustrated trying to figure out if a comment was made before or after the last earnings report. Speaking of which, please mark earnings releases on the monthly charts.

And the GIFs allowed in comments are huge and pointless. They only get used by loudmouths you’d rather not hear from anyway.

by Nac7590

Overall YahooFinance has gotten much more powerful with time, but is not quite at the place where I’d like it to be. First, while new features were added to make YahooFinance have all the content as its desktop counterpart, some small UI tweaks are needed to make the financials data and other in-depth sections easier to view on mobile devices because of the smaller screen and massive amount of information. And I would like to see a better news feed that incorporates a more varied amount of sources. Also, I’d like to see the font switched to the native iOS font as I think it is more appealing, and switch the advertisement system to have less intrusive banner ads instead of the way the ads are currently presented. Other than that, YahooFinance is an essential for keeping track of the market.

by Possum46

Yahoo Finance is always the first go to provider of financial news. Not Google Finance, not CNBC or any other provider.
I’ve been in this business almost 50 years, Yahoo Finance is reliable and easily available. I know for a fact several investment professionals use Yahoo Finance. Jimmy Kramer
on Mad Money has used it for years. I have no financial interest in Yahoo Finance. I am not paid to write this review.
Yahoo Finance is kinda like Joe Friday on Dragnet always said,
“Just the facts mam, just the facts.” I use Yahoo Finance several times a week for financial facts on companies I’m considering going long or short.

by Uknduit

I’m not sure if it’s an oversight on my behave or haven’t found the way to do it . I would like to have an option of placing my watchlist of stocks in Alphabetical order or have the stock in a order of my choice energy, gold oil , automotive stocks ect. followed by the date I started Monitoring the stock. Also I like to mention I often spend time with my kids and grandkids trying to inspire them in learning the market as we know the Market has a host of subjects that they study in school math , Economics and so on. So add an option were they can have some play money ‘’family fun’’

by RickyGeee

I had fallen in love with your app up until recently. In the past I was able to look at analysts thought of buying versus selling a stock showing a rating from 1 to 5 where one was a very strong by to five which is a strong sell. Starting today I cannot see that. Very very disappointed, without that YahooFinance just seems to be just another app not the one that used to be so special. It was so important that if I would see it again I would be giving it five stars not three. Hope you will go back to what you used to share.

by Yahoo Finance App User

Recently, I noticed the ‘business description’ section is no longer provided in the ‘company profile’ section in the yahoo finance app. What made the yahoo finance app so great is that I can instantly look up a stock price AND business description of a company. A stock price and the accompanying statistics available in YahooFinance are useless if I can’t quickly read a description of the company to figure out what the company does. Please bring back the business description. Thanks!

by JFB47

The folks at yahoo just can't help themselves. They have to keep messing with something that already works well. Please go back to the format in the earlier version of YahooFinance. Thanks note to the developer requesting specifics.I don't want the daily total gain for all of the portfolios or wish list that I'm tracking rolled up on one page. I didn't mind having to click on the top of the page to change the portfolio I wanted to view. The changes you have made made it less user-friendly.

by Stocksense

I was enjoying to look at the stock performance graph that shows how the price changed Day to Day by sweeping my finger from past dates to present and watching the stock value change. This provides us the minimum to maximum values in a given period. But this feature disappeared and I cannot track the changes in values. Please reinstate that feature. That feature is invoked when I hold my iPhone at 90 degrees where the long sides are in the horizontal direction. That would be a big help to enjoy the viewing of a stock performance for a given period in a graph form. Thanks