Jagoinvestor
September 14, 2022
How to track your mutual funds & stocks in google sheet?
Today, I will share with you a very simple way of tracking your mutual funds and stock portfolio in google sheets.
A lot of investors keep it simple and track their stocks and mutual funds portfolio in either a google sheet or excel sheet on their laptop. If you are someone who likes to keep track of their portfolio on google sheet, you may be updating the current NAV of the mutual funds or stocks every time on the google sheet.
Instead of that, you can use a google sheet formula =GOOGLEFINANCE() and pass on the mutual funds/stocks code which you can get from the google finance website. Let me give you an example of a mutual fund.
How to find the code of the fund/ stock from google finance?
Let’s say you want to get the NAV of Axis growth opportunities fund. All you have to do is, go to google.com/finance/ and search for that fund, you will see it in the search box and once you click it, you will find the code MUTF_IN: AXIS_GROW_OPPO_1LDB7MS
You just have to remove the space after “:” and then in google sheet apply the formula below
=GOOGLEFINANCE(“MUTF_IN:AXIS_GROW_OPPO_1LDB7MS”)
This will fetch the latest NAV of the fund and then you can multiply the NAV value with the number of units this way you can get your funds value. This way you find all your mutual funds and stocks’ current value and add them up. These values will keep updating automatically every day.
Note that if you are doing the SIP in a mutual fund, then you will have to apply some formulas to find out the latest number of units, but it won’t be that simple.
But if its a fixed portfolio, then you can just update the UNITS one time or update it when you invest more money.’
I hope you liked this quick information and you will apply this.
Thanks for this.
I do have one question.
I have set up a spreadsheet for doing performance analysis on mutual funds to help me determine which ones to use for my non-individual stock investments. As part of this I us the 3m, 1yr, 3yr, and 5yr returns as part of my calculations. But when I get these results with the =GOOGLEFINANCE() command, they are quite different from the results from Google Finance or my brokerage account (or in Excel using the stock data type).
For example, using a mutual fund with the ticker OLGAX I get:
Source YTD 1m 1yr 3yr
GOOGLEFINANCE() 8.08% -7.38% 9.63% 13.89%
google.com/finance 10.07% 9.54% 34.41%
Brokerage Account 9.07% 4.07% 34.28% 5.70% (ARR)
Excel Stock Data 9.07% 11.9% 35.0% 6.5% (ARR)
Why would the GOOGLEFINANCE() numbers be so far off from the others?
I dont know that formula so deeply
Hi,
Your articles are very useful. I have been investing in stocks and MFs for years. I hold 1Cr PP in Equity and 30Lakh in MF. I still wanted to understand a few things. Let’s say we started doing SIP in one fund for the next 25 years. How do we understand it is not performing? then if at all I wanted to switch after 10 yrs of SIP to another fund, how do we do it to desired fund as it would be a kind of Lumsum switch after 10 yrs of our Initial SIP?
You can track its performance in comparison to its benchmark and see ifs its consistently underperforming. In future you can switch the SIP and also the lumpsum accumulated in new fund if you want
Hi,
That’s useful. Created Google Sheet for Stocks(including dividends) and Mutual funds.
How to find similar codes for NPS funds? How do online portals updates daily NAV for funds under NPS?
Have searched lot of websites but not able to get it.
I am also not able to find anything on that. SOrry
Sir
Please share this excel file in my email id.
which excel file you are talking about?
Thanks for the useful feature and info!
Hey Jagoinvestor team,
Can we develop somewhat detailed MF tracker wherein we can calculate 1Mth, 3 MTH, 6MTH, 12 MTH retruns for select MF on monthly basis.
Yes, it can be done using the samne formula. You can find 3 month or 1 yr old NAV also..
Note that info is already easily available in various websites
Thanks for the helpful tips, The Google Sheets trick is very good if it is related to one-time or lumpsum investment. One more thing can be done (I have not tested myself). We can check if the current date is >= the monthly SIP date only then should the value be visible else the row will remain blank.
Alternately, I use moneycontrol.com’s free portfolio tracker in which we can register SIP and automatically all future entries are made. I do check it once a month to ensure that the SIP was on the correct date. It automatically takes care of holidays or non-working days and changes the future SIP dates accordingly. Hope it is helpful for your readers.
Yes, its a good idea .. for SIP it will get little complicated incase of google sheet tracking !
Manish
Send automated Google sheets
I send to you? What do you mean?
I UNDERSTAND THAT BY USING MProfit software, one can download one’s holdings, (including those that have been on STPs from the beginning of the investment) by using one’s email that is provided to the AMCs. Is it true? How safe it is to use MProfit software?
gani
Its a safe one as its desktop based
Nice article.
Microsoft Excel has a similar feature but it is more advance you can get lots of details related to stock like Prev close, 52-week high and low, volume %change, etc, write the stock name in the cell then go to the Data menu -> see the Datatypes section -> select Stock. You can select between BSE and NSE, it has a help section to find the exact stock.
Although it works for Stocks only you can track your gain and loss and much more.
Thanks for sharing that Rakesh
Even with the =Googlefinance function in google sheets, you can find all things your mentioned 🙂
Manish
Get Microsoft Money Sunset edition. You can track everything without going online.
Thanks for sharing that Dominic
Does not work in desktop Excel or Google excel sheet.
Its for google sheet. I ran it today itself .. Can you paste the formula here which you are pasting in Google Sheet? You also see the video which is captured from google sheet itslf .. Also share the fund /stock name and the code which you are passing to the formula?
That is because, It does not work on desktop excel if its not connected to internet. Googlesheet works only with internet.
The formula mentioned in article is only for GOOGLE SHEET, Not for excel. It has some other formula