Research and diligence are essential for successful stock market investors. You should only invest your money into companies you fully understand.
There are many websites investors can use for stock news and research. Here are 10 of the best research websites that will immediately improve your research efficiency and quality.
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Simply Wall St.
Simply Wall St. is a fantastic website that offers comprehensive fundamental analysis for most publicly traded stocks and ETFs around the world.
What’s even better? Their free plan offers 5 free company reports each month! This should be enough for those who are doing more targeted research based on existing investment ideas.
The paid plans are $10 and $20 per month, allowing 30 and unlimited company reports respectively, with stock screener feature.
Whale Wisdom
Whale Wisdom’s free-tier account offers free access to 13F folding data for the past 2 years. The SEC’s Form 13F is a quarterly report required to be filed by all institutions’ investment managers with at least $100M in assets under management. This gives the public a view of the holdings of the nation’s largest institutional investors.
Before investing in a stock, it’s always a good idea to know what the institutions (such as hedge funds, banks and corporate insiders) are doing about it, as they usually have a significant amount of research talent, resources and insider information. They have great buying, selling and holding power, and can often move stock prices in a meaningful way.
TradingView
TradingView is probably the best free stock charting website out there. Not only does it offer some of the most responsive charting tools, it also supports most of the popular indicators for your technical analysis.
In addition, they offer the latest market and stock news accompanied with technical and analyst buy/sell meters.
If you want to try your hands on high frequency trading, they also offer paper trading for free!
Finviz
Finviz is the go-to website for free stock screener. You can fully customize the screener with a total 67 criterion to identify the exact type of stocks you are looking for. Whether you are after low-flow gappers for day trading, or oversold mega cap stocks for swing trade, Finviz have you covered.
Their stock performance map is a great way to gain a holistic view of what’s happening in the market during a set period, free of charge.
ETF.com
For new and passive investors who want to make their money work for them in the stock market without doing too much work, investing in ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) is probably the best way to go. All you need is to decide on your investment goal and put in the initial capital in the corresponding ETFs, the rest will be taken care of by the professional fund managers.
ETF.com offers comprehensive ETF screener, ETF focused news, as well as an education centre providing guidance to help investors find the best ETF for their portfolio and investment goal.
TipRanks
TipRanks helps retail investors make data-driven investment decisions through a suite of multi-award-winning research tools and simplified alternative datasets.
The site enables transparency by tracking and measuring the performance of over 96,000 financial experts, including Wall Street analysts, financial bloggers, hedge funds, and corporate insiders, and making this information publicly available.
MorningStar
Although MorningStar is a paid stock picking advisory website, it offers plenty of free features that allow individual investors to conduct company research and fundamental analysis.
From the latest company related news, key financial metrics to stock ownerships including insider transactions, MorningStar makes them available for free, no obligations.
MarketBeat
MarketBeat is another stock researching website that offers a suite of tools for stock analysis. Unlike many websites that hide valuable data behind paywalls, MarketBeat made most of the data available for free.
I found that the Analyst ratings, competitors, SEC filing and short Interests are particularly useful, as these are usually behind paywalls or excluded on other similar websites.
Benzinga
Benzinga is a stock news, data and education website offering timely news, quality stock coverage and comprehensive company data for free.
Most of their opinion pieces authored by their content contributors are free of charge.
Yahoo! Finance
Probably one of the oldest financial websites out there, Yahoo! Finance certainly shows its age through its somewhat outdated site layout and treatment.
That said, the site is still one of the most comprehensive stock coverage websites out there, thanks to its news aggregation feature (collection of related news articles across the internet into one place). It’s a good place to be if you want to read about the latest news on a particular stock.
