Thursday, July 19, 2012

Free tools for stock screening/look-up/news

Here I want to list some of my favorite tools that i use frequently when assessing/monitoring one stock or a portfolio of stocks. All are free of charge:

Stock screener:
Yahoo Stock Screener: Over 150 different criteria you can combine when screening. Works best for US stocks.
Google Stock Screener: Features a lot of different criteria, maybe a bit less then Yahoo. More graphical interface. As well only US stocks.
For a how-to-screen see Damodarans excellent guide, who also recommends screening tools.

Quotes, (Financial-) Information, Ratios of specific company:
Yahoo Finance: Works quite well for a lot of companies, however most information is available for US stocks and larger European caps.
FT marketsdata: Works well for a lot of companies, very graphic interface. Gives you a lot of information, including institutional investors, background CEO/etc. Has data for 3 annual periods.
MSN Money: Only for stocks from most important markets: US/CAN/GER/FRA/SP/BE/IT/JAP/SW/NL/UK. Features besides the usual stuff a 10 year summary!

News aggregator:
Finanznachrichten.de: After creating an account you can define your personal watch list of stocks and news from 430 international publications. If wished you can also have an Email being send to you at given day and hour with all the relevant news. However most content is in German! Also shows real-time quotes.

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