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The 52-week range price indicator chart shows the relative position of the current price compared to the 52-week low and the 52-week high price. It visualizes whether the current price is closer to the 52-week low or the 52-week high price. In this post, I explain how to create a 52-week range price indicator chart for stocks by using the SPARKLINE function and the GOOGLEFINANCE function in Google Sheets.

Many functions in Google Sheets return an array as the result. However, I find that there is a lack of built-in support functions in Google Sheets when working with an array. For example, the GOOGLEFINANCE function can return the historical prices of a stock as a table of two columns and the first-row being headers Date and Close. How can I ignore the headers or remove the headers from the results?

After selling a portion of my holdings in a stock, the cost basis for the remain shares of that stock in my portfolio is not simply the sum of all transactions. When selling, I need to decide which shares I want to sell. One of the most common accounting methods is FIFO (first in, first out), meaning that the shares I bought earliest will be the shares I sell first. As you might already know, I use Google Sheets extensively to manage my stock portfolio investment, but, at the moment of writing this post, I find that Google Sheets does not provide a built-in formula for FIFO. Luckily, with lots of effort, I succeeded in building my own FIFO solution in Google Sheets, and I want to share it on this blog. In this post, I explain how to implement FIFO method in Google Sheets to compute cost basis in stocks investing.

I have explained the idea of using Google Sheets functions to calculate internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV) for a stock portfolio . The process consists mainly of three steps: Identify cash flows from transactions managed in a Google Sheets spreadsheet Choose a discount rate based on personal preferences Apply XIRR and XNPV functions of Google Sheets In this post, I demonstrate step-by-step how to apply this process to calculate internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV) for a stock portfolio at 3 levels.

As a long-term investor, I need to know how to evaluate the performance of my stock portfolio. A simple return on investment calculation is not a good indicator for long-term investment because it does not take into account the holding duration, and cash flows involved during that period. A return on investment of 80% after 20 years is not as impressive as it sounds after 1 year. In this post, I explain the idea of using Google Sheets to calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) and the net present value (NPV) of a stock portfolio.