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If you'd follow thus far, you now have a solid portfolio tracker in Excel and can continue to add information, add stocks, and leverage Excel to inform your stock picks. You can also hit “Refresh All” in the Data part of the toolbar to force a refresh of the data.

Now I have my final Excel tracker that should update on its own as things change. One more thing I might want to do is aggregate all my information with a summary row and I can do this by summing up a couple of my columns like Investment, Current Equity, and Return. I could also add some conditional formatting here to highlight gains and losses either using a color scale or cell rules for >0 or Target, “SELL”, “HOLD”) and do a quick conditional formatting for easy visualization. Next, I can calculate my total return on each of those stocks by subtracting the investment amount from the current equity value. Then multiplying the current price by the number of share I own I can calculate my current total equity in each stock (Column B * Column I). I can calculate the total amount invested in each stock at the purchase price by multiplying my avg price paid by the number of shares I bought (Column I * Column J).

Now, I want to add in some of my own information if I already own these stocks so I’ll make another column with the number of shares I have and my average price per share paid from my brokerage account. With a bit of quick formatting in Excel, here’s what my tracker looks like now: Beta measures a stock's movement relative to the overall market.

The P/E ratio measures the price of the stock relative to its earnings/profit. I added the day’s change %, total market cap, 52-week high, 52-week low, P/E ratio, and beta. I’ll go ahead and pull some more information that I think is important for now and then we’ll start using Excel functions to make it more useful. The first thing I’d probably want to know is the price of the stock so I’ll select “Price” and a new column will fill with the prices of each of the stocks. Once you click that widget you’ll have options of what data to pull in and each piece of data you click into will add another column of data. To start pulling in stock data, you’ll select all the tickers and you’ll see a little widget pop up on the right that you can click on it will give you options of stock data to input. Now those tickers have been transformed into stock data types so you can pull information on them.

Once I’m clicked in to “Data,” there is a section called “Data Types,” and within that I see “Stocks.” I’ll go ahead and hit “Stocks” and all those tickers should update with the full name and ticker. Once I have my stock tickers listed out, I’ll highlight all my tickers and head over to “Data” the toolbar. I’ll open up a new workbook or sheet in Excel and start typing in those tickers into my first column and call the column Ticker. I’m going to put 5 stocks on the tracker for simplicity and they are going to be: Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Walmart (WMT), and Capital One (COF). Let’s jump into Excel to start tracking stocks and pull in stock data. You can use basic Excel knowledge to create rules, spot trends, and compare stocks with the stock data pulled into Excel. Whether you want to track an existing portfolio, use Excel functions to inform selling, or track stocks on your watchlist to know when/if to buy, you can use Excel’s built-in “Stocks” feature to pull the information you’ll need.

In this guide, we’ll walk through how to set up a portfolio tracker using Excel.

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