[GNC] Getting Finance:Quote for Preferred Stocks

Jediator jediator at artemisspace.com
Mon Jul 13 11:55:02 EDT 2026


Thanks for all your help!  Indeed, different data sources have different 
naming conventions, despite the fact that the stocks are all issued by 
NYSE.  On Yahoo names are with dashes, whereas on alphavantage without 
dashes.

On 7/13/26 7:55 AM, David T. wrote:
> And it appears that Yahoo has MET-PE and C-PN, although I couldn't say 
> that they're the stocks you're after. You could apply the same naming 
> rules at Yahoo for other preferred stocks and see what comes up.
>
>
> On July 13, 2026 5:03:06 PM GMT+05:30, "C.E. Morrison via 
> gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>     Yes you can, but it isn't straightforward. The symbols for
>     preferred stocks are not uniform across all brokerages/price
>     sources. You have to figure out what symbol your price source
>     uses. For example, if your price source is Yahoo, then try MET-PA
>     for MET.PRA. On Sunday July 12 22:50:20 2026 (-05:00), Jediator
>     wrote:
>
>         Is there anyway to get online quote for public traded
>         preferred stocks? e.g., MET.PRA, MET.PRE, C.PRN, etc.?  I
>         tried gnucash-cli -Q with several sources listed under
>         gnucash-cli -Q info but none of them worked.  Thanks in
>         advance! -- ND
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