The other day, we reported that more people are searching for information on Greggs shares than Nvidia. A good indication that the AI bubble may be about to burst? Or is it becuase people love Greggs and want to buy a slice of the pie?
But it was short-lived, that data was gathered from Google Trends, which only shows short spikes in share price interest. What is really interesting to look at is what share prices people are looking at over time and how they have performed.
To find out what the most popular stocks are on Google we analysed some SEMRush data, which ranks Google searches and there is a clear winner.
Lloyds is the most popular share price searched for in the UK
More specifically, what people really want to know is what will Lloyds’ share price be in 5 years. There are an amazing one million monthly searches for the Lloyds share price compared to only 673,000 for Rolls Royce in second place.
In order the top ten share prices searched for on Google in the UK are:
| Share Price | Monthly Searches |
| Lloyds share price | 1,000,000 |
| Rolls Royce share price | 673,000 |
| BT share price – 450,000 | 450,000 |
| Nvidia share price | 450,000 |
| BP share price | 368,000 |
| Tesla share price | 368,000 |
| IAG share price | 301,000 |
| Tesco share price | 301,000 |
| Aviva share price | 246,000 |
| BAE share price | 246,000 |
What questions do people most ask Google about share prices?
It appears from the search that whilst people are interested in knowing where Lloyds bank will be in the future, which suggests bullishness for UK banking sector stocks. The rest of the questions are more bearish, for instance the top ten questions asked about share prices are:
| Share Price Query | Sentiment |
| What will Lloyds share price be in 5 years? | Bullish |
| Why is abrdn share price falling? | Bearish |
| Why has BP share price dropped today? | Bearish |
| Why has Rolls-Royce share price dropped today? | Bearish |
| Why is Legal and General share price falling? | Bearish |
| Why is Diageo share price falling? | Bearish |
| Why has Helium one share price dropped? | Bearish |
| Why is Vodafone share price so low? | Bearish |
| Will Standard Life share price recover? | Bearish |
| What is BT share price? | Neutral |
We did some similar research three years aga in September 2021 and at the time all the most popular stocks in the UK were US stocks.
Most searched for stocks in September 2021
- Tesla Inc: 487,000
- Apple Inc: 112,000
- com Inc: 79,000
- Pfizer Inc: 29,000
- Moderna Inc: 28,000
- Microsoft Inc: 27,000
- AstraZeneca PLC: 26,000
- Rolls Royce holdings PLC: 23,000
- Facebook Inc: 23,000
- Netflix Inc: 12,000
But now it appears there is more interest in the UK markets, albeit with slightly negative sentiment. But, one could argue that there is more hope of recovery than before.
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