How to get the 1-hr, 7-day and 1-month percentage changes of a stock with Google Finance/Sheets

Question

I can currently get the 24hr percent change of a stock in Google Sheets by: =GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOGL","changepct")

How do I get the 1-hr, 7-day and 1-month percent changes of a stock(or even a custom amount)?

Answer 1

if by 1-hr you mean change between this hour and previous hour then 1-hr percent change is not possible to get by formula. could be doable via script where you would run a trigger every hour to log the values and then just compute the change with a simple formula.

changepct stands for "percentage change in price since the previous trading day's close" so to be precise it is not the 24-hr unless you look at it at 16:00:00 when the closing happens. if you wish for a true 24-hr then again, you need to resolve it with a script that will log the values on an hourly basis and compute the change with a simple time-moving formula

7-day and 1-month are possible.

to calculate percentage change the formula is:

translated into a formula it would be:

=((GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOGL", "price")-INDEX(
   GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOGL", "price", TODAY()-6, TODAY()), 2, 2))/INDEX(
   GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOGL", "price", TODAY()-6, TODAY()), 2, 2))*100

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=((GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOGL", "price")-INDEX(
   GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOGL", "price", TODAY()-29, TODAY()), 2, 2))/INDEX(
   GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOGL", "price", TODAY()-29, TODAY()), 2, 2))*100