Prices and reference data

Clean end-of-day prices for 95,000 securities back to 1964, with the reference data every model needs.

Every model starts with the basics, and the basics have to be right. ORTEX delivers end-of-day prices for more than 95,000 securities worldwide, with history back to 1964, alongside the reference data that turns a price into something usable: market capitalization in local currency and dollars, shares outstanding, free float, average volume and historic volatility. Renamed and delisted stocks stay reachable, so history is complete.

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95,000+
securities priced
1964
history from
267m
daily price records
4x
updates a day as markets close
267m

daily price records back to 1964, including renamed, moved and delisted tickers, so a backtest has no survivorship gap.

ORTEX price archive, September 2026.

What you can do with it
Backtesting

Survivorship-free history back to 1964.

Screening

Market cap, float and volume on one consistent basis.

Risk

Historic volatility over six windows, aligned with implied volatility.

The foundation, done properly

Prices and the reference data every model needs, consistent across every market.

01
End-of-day prices

Open, high, low, close, volume and VWAP for the primary listing or all exchanges combined, updated four times a day.

02
History from 1964

Six decades of prices, including renamed, moved and delisted tickers.

03
Market capitalization

Daily market cap in local currency and US dollars.

04
Shares and free float

Shares outstanding and free float, with a new row every time they change.

05
Volume and volatility

Average daily volume, and historic volatility over 5, 10, 20, 30, 60 and 90 days.

06
Identifiers and exchanges

ISIN, FIGI and ORTEX identifiers and exchange reference data, ready to join to your security master.

Why ORTEX

Prices and reference data share one identifier set with every other ORTEX dataset, so nothing needs re-mapping.

In the data

Coverage, year by year

Securities with an end-of-day price in each year.

Fields
OHLC, volume, VWAP
Reference
Market cap, float, shares, volatility
History
From 1964

Coverage has nearly tripled since 2010, and the history of every security stays in.

Securities priced
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Distinct securities with daily prices in each year.

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Trial access, pricing and licensing from the data sales team. Delivered over the API, as whole-market daily files, into your cloud, or on the ORTEX platform.

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Coverage, history and figures are as at September 2026. Provided for information purposes only; not investment advice. Past performance is not a guide to future results. See the full data catalog.