🔍 The best free investing tools

More than 50 stock research tools you can use for free

The internet is full of investing resources.

If you know how to use them well, it can be a gold mine.

In this article, I’ll share more than 50 free investment resources with you.

1. Morningstar

Morningstar is an American financial services firm. It provides an array of investment research and investment management services.

You can take a look at a company’s financials, valuation, operating performance, dividend, ownership and much more.

2. Dataroma

Via Dataroma, you can track the portfolios of the best investors in the world. Think about Warren Buffett, Chuck Akre, Terry Smith and Howard Marks.

You can also take a look at which stocks are bought the most by these superinvestors, which insiders are buying their own stock, and so on.

3. Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance provides you with financial news, data and commentary including stock quotes, press releases, financial reports, and original content.

It’s a great website to check daily stock news or create a watchlist.

4. Seeking Alpha

If you are looking for stock analysis, Seeking Alpha is the place to be.

You can follow the stocks you want and you’ll receive an email each time someone publishes an article about the companies you’re interested in.

5. The SEC website

The SEC website gives you access to the full text of SEC filings since 2001.

Everything that a company has filed over the past few years can be found on this website.

6. ROIC.ai

Via ROIC.ai you can find more than 30 years of financial data for free. ROIC.ai covers more than 37.000 companies.

It’s a great way to look at the evolution of the financials of a company.

7. The company’s website

The best way to start analyzing a stock is by going to the company’s ‘Investor Relations’ section on their website.

Via this section, you can download it’s annual reports, investor presentations, and much more.

8. Stratosphere

Stratosphere offers you a platform where you can take a look at the financials of a company, visualize data, and screen for stocks which match certain criteria.

9. Investopedia

If you want to learn about a certain investment topic, Investopedia is the place to be.

It features articles, tutorials, videos, and other content designed to help individuals make informed financial decisions.

10. Quartr App

The Quatr App is a financial research and investor relations platform.

This app makes it easy for you to listen to conference calls and take a look at the Investor Presentation of a company.

11. Nasdaq

The website of Nasdaq is a must for investors. It allows you to get:

• Stock market information and data

• Company news and research

• Investment tools and resources (screeners, educational sources, …)

12. FinViz

FinViz is a great stock screener.

It also offers a portfolio tracker and you can take a look at insider activity of management.

13. Google Finance

Google Finance offers you a customizable dashboard for tracking stocks, market news, and trends.

14. Whale Wisdom

Whale Wisdom is, just like Dataroma, a great website to track the portfolio of superinvestors and funds.

You can also take a look which stocks are bought and sold the most in the recent past.

15. Twitter

Last but not least, FinTwit is a great place to get investment inspiration and discuss your investment ideas with other investors.

If you are not following Compounding Quality yet, you can do it here.

Other great investment resources

• Macotrends: Stock screener with over 50 performance and fundamental criteria

• The Calculator Site: great website to calculate compound interest

• Glassdoor: great way to see how (ex-)employees rate their (former) company

• Koyfin: investment analytics platform

• Tikr: interesting stock screener

• Shortsqueeze: short interest data

• Marketscreener: stock market quotes and news

• Openinsider: insider activity of management

• ValueInvestorsClub: investment club where investors share their ideas

• Masterinvest: blog full of investing wisdom

• Portfoliovisualizer: platform for portfolio and investment analytics

• Chartmill: stock screening and analysis platform

Shareholder letters

• All annual letters and public writings of Warren Buffett

• All public writings of Charlie Munger

• All public writings Benjamin Graham

• All shareholder letters of Francois Rochon (Giverny Capital)

• All shareholder letters Jeff Bezos

• All shareholder letters Terry Smith`

• All shareholder letters of Nick Sleep

• All shareholder letters Mark Leonard (Constellation Software)

Great articles and summaries

• The Peter Lynch Playbook

• All articles Peter Lynch

• All class notes of Joel Greenblatt

• How to find multibaggers

Youtube videos

• CNBC's full interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett

• The ultimate guide to the stock market by Peter Lynch

• The annual shareholder meetings of Terry Smith

• Trying to solve the investment puzzle by Chuck Akre (Google Talks)

• Aswath Damadoran's lessons on valuation

• Charlie Munger's advice on investing and life

• The little book that beats the market by Joel Greenblatt (Google talks)

Great podcasts

• We Study Billionaires (The Investor’s Podcast)

• The Morgan Housel Podcast

• The One Percent Show

• Investing by the Books

• Infinite Loops

• The Memo by Howards Marks

• In Good Company

• Invest Like the Best

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Compounding Quality is a professional investor which manages a worldwide equity fund with more than $150 million in Assets Under Management. We have read over 500 investment books and spend more than 50 hours per week researching stocks.