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What service, if any, do you like best for researching stocks?

hank
edited February 16 in Other Investing
Up until now I've mainly used Barron's and Morningstar. Barron's routinely publishes "buy" recommendations and some reasonable analysis. Their semi-annual roundtables are flush with ideas. Morningstar provides an estimated "fair value" for stocks and often some in-depth analysis. Google is useful for pulling up price history charts. I also consult Zack's for the minimal advice they provide free of charge.

Under consideration as a paid subscription:

Zack's
The Motley Fool
Seeking Alpha
Others?

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  • DrVenture
    The only paid services that I use are M* and Kiplinger's, and TRP pays for it.

    CNBC for relevant daly news. YBB's Weekly Business Digest for weekly summary.
    Occasional free SA articles. Barron's is probably the only other one that I'd consider as a paid subscription.

  • sma3
    Depends on what you want. "Simply Safe Dividends " is great for dividend stocks but I pay a lower fee than a new user would. One of the few places that commits to not raising fees for long time supporters.

    Dividend informer covers about 200 stocks for the Investment Clubs organization. They have a more general equity service as well and both provide easy methods of understanding financial data.

    M* is Ok but I would love to see an audited report on the accuracy of their "Fair Value" over time.

    Valueline is great for numbers and ideas, but I cannot get it free at the library any more. they have model portfolios that do not change much. They sent me a report a year or so ago about the performance of all four of their portfolios and do not remember being awed

    I have given up on AAII. Still reporting on models developed in the 1960s. Their best portfolios have outstanding results but with a huge amount of volatility





  • PRESSmUPPRESSmUP
    For stocks specifically, I’ve found Argus research to be very thorough. This is available via Schwab’s site, and includes model portfolios for growth, growth and income, etc.
  • gman57
    edited February 16
    Not in depth research but I like https://totalrealreturns.com I'm glad you asked as I always go to my funds url by default (to look at my stuff). I just went to the base page and was surprised by all the info I never looked at before. Sooooo..... if you invested 10k in Amazon in 1997 you'd now have 20+ million.
  • DrVenture
    I cannot speak for anyone else, but factoids like that make me feel like an idiot.

    But --- thanks? lol
  • gman57
    edited February 16
    Yeah, nice thought but realistically I would have sold WAAAAYYYYY too soon giddy at my $5k profit. :^(
  • CrashCrash
    edited February 16
    Over holiday week-ends, Stock Rover opens up their full bunch of stuff at no charge. Even when the FREE version is all you can use, I like it. It's very handy with every statistic and metric you can think of. And charts for various time periods. It's good only for stocks and etfs, though, not mutual funds. And it covers ADRs.
  • Observant1
    edited February 16
    You might want to look at the following M* monthly newsletters: StockInvestor, DividendInvestor.
    I can access these newsletters via Morningstar Investing Center—my local library subscribes to this service.
    I don't invest in individual stocks (except for one stock) so I'm not very familiar with these newsletters.
    There was much positive feedback regarding DividendInvestor during Josh Peters' tenure years ago.
  • hank
    PRESSmUP said:

    For stocks specifically, I’ve found Argus research to be very thorough. This is available via Schwab’s site, and includes model portfolios for growth, growth and income, etc.

    Wonder if Fidelity has Argus or something similar? I logged in today and used their search option to pull up a specific stock. Fido in return linked numerous media reports on the company, acquisition's, earnings reports and the like. So that's a great lead. If anyone knows if Fidelity has something more for free please share. Generally I login just long enough to put through transactions. (Maybe unnecessary security concern.)

  • rforno
    M*
    SeekingAlpha (mainly the comments, not articles)
    Various searches in Perplexity
    LSEG/CFRA reports in Schwab for the 'quant' perspective
    My own magic eight-ball
  • DrVenture
    Ha - that's funny. I too find the SA comments often more entertaining and informative than the articles. AND I own a Magic 8-ball. All it ever answers is "outlook cloudy", though.
  • rforno
    DrVenture said:

    Ha - that's funny. I too find the SA comments often more entertaining and informative than the articles. AND I own a Magic 8-ball. All it ever answers is "outlook cloudy", though.

    Yeah but 'outlook cloudy' confirms that I'm doing my research correctly - i.e., that there are no guarantees! :)
  • masterd
    Value Line and Morningstar. Plus reading the WSJ and Barron’s. Surprised no one mentioned Value Line. Probably available free (for the basic version) from your local public library.
  • masterd
    edited February 16
    Delete

  • WABACWABAC
    DrVenture said:

    I cannot speak for anyone else, but factoids like that make me feel like an idiot.

    But --- thanks? lol

    I remember standing in a backyard at a barbecue in Berkeley when some guy showed us this little device from Apple that stored music. "Oh. So. It's like a Walkman then?"
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