There are numerous sites that display stock prices. Looking a dozen common websites, I found that some update the prices as they change (ie, realtime), some are delayed somewhat, others delay 20 minutes or more. The following is my experience, things can change.
Websites and brokers (and anyone else who wants realtime data) pay fees to get realtime data. The websites who display prices in realtime allow you to see the prices, usually at not charge, because they want you to use their website. Not all websites subscribe to up-to-date realtime data. Delayed data is cheaper.
In addition, some sites will quote prices in whole cents, others will display prices in less than one cent gradations. These are noted as “Can be less than once cent gradations” in the chart.
| Site | URL | Timing of Price | Smallest Gradation |
| Yahoo | yahoo.com | close to realtime | whole cents |
| MarketWatch | marketwatch.com | close to realtime | whole cents |
| Wall Street Journal | wsj.com | close to realtime | can be less than once cent gradations |
| CNBC | cnbc.com | close to realtime | can be less than once cent gradations |
| Trading View | tradingview.com | close to realtime | whole cents |
| Barrons | barrons.com | close to realtime | whole cents |
| CNN | money.cnn.com | delayed slightly | whole cents |
| Zacks | zacks.com | delayed slightly | whole cents |
| Nasdaq | nsadaq.com | delayed approx. 20 minutes | can be less than once cent gradations |
| Bloomberg | bloomberg.com | delayed approx. 20 minutes | whole cents |
| The Street | thestreet.com | delayed approx. 20 minutes | whole cents |
| The Motley Fool | fool.com | delayed at least 20 minutes | whole cents |
What Is Less Than One Cent?
Prices could be in tenths of a cent, hundredths of a cent, thousands of a cent, or ten thousandths of a cent. Here is a recent partial screenshot from the Wall Street Journal’s website of the price a share of stock that is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It shows that the price for a share of stock at the time was $9.9166 per share.
Certainly prices you pay (or get) would be rounded to the nearest cent. What I find of interest is the wide variation in timings and granularities of prices between many websites.
For this reason, and for reasons previously mentioned, it seems prudent not to rely only on one source for information.
How have you handled stock price information? Do you find differences and variety among information providers? Comment here.
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