YCharts.com Launches Embeddable Stock Charts

For the millions of financial conversations on the web, YCharts.com now offers embeddable charts to help journalists, bloggers and investors make their points stick. From price and company fundamental charts - revenue, net income and more - to market indices and economic indicators, YCharts.com has an embeddable YChart for it.

The world is going social, and the financial world is no exception. We make it easier to discuss companies, the economy and any data that impacts the markets. Sometimes a YChart is just a better way to get your point across.

Our partners at Motley Fool and Forbes are already putting YCharts to work, and Jacob Roche of the Motley Fool has raved about YCharts.com. He describes it as “One of the tools I like to use to help me more quickly get a read on investments is YCharts.com.” Bloggers like Chris Dixon and CultofMac have also already put YCharts to use.

You can create the charts from our “interactive charts” page. Click the “embed chart” button in the upper right corner of the chart to add YCharts to your articles, blog or website. You will also notice in the lower right corner an option to “save chart as image”. Click this to download the chart as an image (Pro Membership Required) for reports, presentations or your own internal use.

Users can embed any variation of over 500,000 YCharts. With them, you can compare up to 5 companies and layer on economic indicators, or compare multiple economic indicators. The charts work on your website, in your blog, as a picture on your Twitter feed, in your Facebook post - anywhere you can paste an image or snippet of code.

What data can you visualize with YCharts?

• Over 5,000 Stocks with 85+ Fundamental Metrics for each company
• Exchange Traded Funds
• 1,000 Indices including international markets
• Over 500 Economic Indicators
• Forex Rates
• Commodities
• Investor Sentiment Indicators
• Pro Metrics

We want to make it easy to use YCharts wherever you like.

“We want to add to financial conversations everywhere with visual data. With YCharts, you can now analyze company fundamentals, competitors, industries and compare related economic indicators. Once you are done with your analysis, it’s up to you how you would like to use the YChart you created.” said Ara Anjargolian, CTO of YCharts.

Try it and let us know what you think.

The YCharts Team

Pro Users: More Stock Charts and Metrics Added

We receive a lot of requests from our 300,000 monthly users for new stock metrics to be added to YCharts. Several of the most requested metrics are now live in YCharts Pro. Below is a summary of the new ones.

Is there a metric that you use that we haven’t added yet? If so, you can request additional stock metrics here.

Enjoy!

Introducing the Most Powerful Stock Charts on Earth

YCharts is excited to launch a new chart that has been months in the making. It will allow investors to easily view financial data in ways that were historically available only to people in financial companies. The new key features follow.

Below is a chart that compares retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, and Target) and the US Retail Sales economic indicator. Follow along with a live chart by clicking here.

More Size, More Insight: The first thing you’ll notice is that the chart is bigger. This allows you to see more data more clearly. Also, picking those individual historical points by hovering your mouse will be much easier than before.

(1) Main Metric and Comparison Metric: This feature existed in the old charts, but now the values are much easier to see. Say you want to compare Price and Price to Earnings Ratio. Select Price as the main metric and PE Ratio as the comparison, and a new line will pop up just below the drop-down menus. To remove the comparison metric, just click the “x” next to the new line.

(2) Multiple Stock Comparison: Say you want to compare Amazon’s performance to other retailers. We made that process much easier. Get a quote for Amazon, and then type “Best Buy” (or BBY, the box will auto-fill) into the “Compare Stocks” box, and add the company. You can compare one metric for up to 5 companies (we’ve included Amazon.com, Best Buy, and Target). To remove a company, just click the “x” next to that company’s line.

(3) Economic Indicator Comparison: We have more than 200 economic indicators charted over time, and now you can compare them to company performance on the same chart. Get a company quote, and enter the name of an economic indicator, for example “Retail Sales,” and click “Add” (our chart shows retail sales numbers as a green line). Then you’re ready to look for relationships between indicators and company performance. To remove the indicator, click the “x” next to the line.

(4) Embeddable Charts: Love a chart and want to embed it in your own site? Click the “Embed Chart” button and you will get a snippet of code that you can add to any site. Exporting images of charts is soon to come!

(5) Data Export: If you are a Pro Subscriber and find an interesting relationship in a chart, you can export that data to Excel and do your own calculations with it. You also have access to up to 30 years of data on the Pro charts.