Educational and non-advisory. Shishin publishes a stock-ranking board and is listed at the end of this comparison; we disclose that conflict and hold ourselves to the same criteria. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or subscribe to anything. Every price and free-tier limit below was checked on the vendor’s own site as of October 2026; plans change often, so confirm at the source.
You can do serious stock analysis in 2026 without paying for anything. The catch is that no single free site does all of it, and the free tiers are carefully designed to stop just short of the part you need most. We tested the free versions of the sites people actually use, wrote down exactly where each one draws the paywall line, and matched each to the job it does best.
The short version. As of October 2026, the best free stock analysis websites are Finviz for screening, TradingView for charts, Stock Analysis and Yahoo Finance for financial statements, Koyfin for dashboards and comparisons, Macrotrends for long history, and SEC EDGAR for primary filings. Simply Wall St and Zacks are useful but tightly limited when free. A good free stack combines a screener, a charting tool, a fundamentals site and EDGAR, because each free tier gates something different.
How we judged these stock analysis websites
We scored only the free tier, using a logged-out or free account, and checked each limit against the vendor’s own pricing or help pages on October 21, 2026. We did not rank by affiliate payout; we have no affiliate relationship with any site here. Eight criteria:
- Data depth. How many US stocks, metrics and ratios are actually visible free.
- Delay. Whether quotes are real-time, partly real-time, or delayed, and by how much.
- Limits and paywalls. Monthly caps, locked columns, truncated screener results.
- Screening. Filter breadth, and whether results are complete or cut off.
- Charts. Indicators per chart, intraday access, drawing tools.
- Fundamentals history. How many years of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow you see free.
- Export. Whether you can download data to a spreadsheet without paying.
- Ads and nags. How much the free experience is interrupted by advertising and upgrade prompts.
One more rule: a site earns a place here for what it does free. Excellent paid products whose free version is mostly a preview (we explain which below) are noted but not ranked.
Best free stock analysis websites at a glance
Free-tier facts as of October 2026, from each vendor’s own site. “Paid from” is the entry paid plan, shown so you know what the upsell costs, not as a suggestion to buy it.
| Site | Best free job | Key free limit (Oct 2026) | Free export | Paid from (Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finviz | Screening | Quotes delayed 1 min; no alerts, intraday charts | No | $39.50/mo or $299.50/yr |
| TradingView | Charting | 2 indicators per chart, 3 price alerts | No | Essential plan (local pricing) |
| Stock Analysis | Clean financial statements | About 5 years of history; ads | No (Pro: 1 per day) | $9.99/mo or $79/yr |
| Yahoo Finance | Quotes, news, statements | Up to 5 years of financials; ads | No | $7.95/mo (Bronze) |
| Koyfin | Dashboards, comparisons | 2Y financials, 2 watchlists, 2 screens | No | $39/mo (Plus) |
| Macrotrends | Long-run history | Fixed charts, little customisation | No | Free site |
| SEC EDGAR | Primary filings | Raw documents, no analysis layer | Yes (public data, APIs) | Free (government) |
| Simply Wall St | Visual summaries | 5 reports/mo; screener shows top 4 | No | Premium plan |
| Zacks | Earnings-revision rank | Rank free; lists, screens, reports paid | No | $249/yr (Premium) |
| Shishin | Ranked daily board, public record | Free board is delayed; no fundamentals | No | Same-day paid tier |
The free stock analysis websites, reviewed
Finviz
The fastest free stock screener on the web for US equities. One page holds dozens of filters across descriptive, fundamental and technical tabs (valuation multiples, margins, returns on capital, insider and institutional ownership, short float, RSI, moving averages, ATR, volatility), plus preset signals such as new highs and chart patterns, and the familiar sector heat map.
- Strengths: breadth of filters, speed, results you can flip between fundamental, technical and performance views.
- What free limits: as of October 2026, Finviz says free stock quotes are delayed 1 minute for NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX, and alerts, CSV/Excel export and intraday charts are Elite-only. The free site carries ads.
- Paid tier: Elite is $39.50 a month or $299.50 a year as of October 2026, adding real-time quotes, pre-market and after-hours data, export and alerts.
- Who it suits: anyone building a shortlist from the whole market by numbers, then researching names elsewhere.
TradingView
The default free charting platform: clean browser charts, a large library of indicators and drawing tools, and a public screener for stocks.
- Strengths: the best free charts here by a distance, multi-timeframe, smooth, and shareable.
- What free limits: the Basic plan, as of October 2026, allows 2 indicators per chart, 1 chart per tab, 3 active price alerts and 5,000 historical bars, with ads. TradingView’s support pages say US stock charts show real-time Cboe data by default; consolidated real-time data from the primary listing exchanges is a separate purchase. Volume and prints on Cboe alone can differ from the full market.
- Paid tier: Essential, Plus, Premium and Ultimate; prices are shown in your local currency, so check the pricing page.
- Who it suits: anyone doing technical analysis, as long as two indicators at a time is enough.
Stock Analysis
StockAnalysis.com is the cleanest free source for financial statements, ratios, IPO calendars and a capable stock screener, with fast pages and consistent formatting across thousands of US listings.
- Strengths: readable income statements, balance sheets and cash flows; a large free screener; no sign-up needed to browse.
- What free limits: free users see roughly the last five fiscal years of statements as of October 2026; Pro extends that to 10 to 40 years depending on the data source, removes ads, saves screeners and allows one spreadsheet download per day.
- Paid tier: Pro is $9.99 a month or $79 a year as of October 2026, the cheapest upgrade in this list.
- Who it suits: investors who want fundamentals laid out simply, without a terminal’s learning curve.
Yahoo Finance
Still the most-used free finance site: quotes, news, statistics, analyst estimates, holders, options chains and portfolio watchlists in one place.
- Strengths: broad coverage including many international exchanges, good news flow, free options chains and estimates.
- What free limits: as of October 2026, Yahoo’s plan pages describe up to five years of financials on the free plan, with third-party ads, and reserve downloadable data, roughly 40 years of statements and premium screeners for paid plans.
- Paid tier: Bronze $7.95, Silver $19.95 and Gold $39.95 a month as of October 2026, about 20% less billed annually.
- Who it suits: a daily home base for news and a quick look at any ticker.
Koyfin
A terminal-style research platform with dashboards, multi-security charts and comparison tables that look closer to professional tools than anything else free.
- Strengths: advanced charting of fundamentals over time, market and macro dashboards, portfolio tracking, all in one workspace.
- What free limits: as of October 2026 the free plan includes 2 years of financials and 1 year of estimates, 2 watchlists, 2 screens, 2 custom dashboards, and limited company snapshots and news.
- Paid tier: Plus is listed at $39 a month as of October 2026 (10 years of financials and estimates), with up to 30% off on annual billing.
- Who it suits: people comparing companies or sectors side by side who can live with two years of history.
Macrotrends
A free archive of long-run charts: decades of stock prices and dividends, a decade or so of fundamentals per company, and very long index, rate and economic series.
- Strengths: fast answers to “what did this metric look like over ten years”; long market history for context; a free screener with dozens of criteria.
- What free limits: charts are fixed views rather than a workspace, and customisation is minimal. We found no paid tier to unlock as of October 2026, so what you see is what there is.
- Who it suits: long-horizon investors checking how a company’s revenue, margins or share count trended.
SEC EDGAR
The primary source. Every 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statement and insider filing that the data sites above summarise is here, free, from the SEC itself.
- Strengths: it is the original document, not someone’s transcription; EDGAR full-text search covers electronic filings since 2001, and the SEC publishes free data APIs (fair-access guidance caps automated use at 10 requests per second as of October 2026).
- What free limits: nothing is paywalled, but there is no analysis layer: no charts, ratios or screener. You read and compute yourself.
- Who it suits: anyone who wants to check a number at the source, read risk factors and footnotes, or track insider filings.
Simply Wall St
Visual company reports built around its “snowflake” summary of valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.
- Strengths: the most beginner-friendly presentation of fundamentals and risks in this list.
- What free limits: as of October 2026, the free plan allows 5 company reports a month, 1 portfolio with 10 holdings, 3 watchlists of up to 50 stocks, 1 saved screener or alert, and only the top 4 results per screener. New users get a seven-day Premium trial.
- Who it suits: newer investors looking at a handful of companies a month. The screener cap makes it a poor free screening tool.
Zacks
A long-established research house whose Zacks Rank scores stocks from 1 (Strong Buy) to 5 (Strong Sell), driven mainly by changes in analysts’ earnings-estimate revisions.
- Strengths: the rank is free with a Zacks membership, simple to read, and built mainly on one clearly stated driver (estimate revisions).
- What free limits: as of October 2026 the full #1 Rank list, premium screens, equity research reports and daily rank updates in bulk sit in Zacks Premium.
- Paid tier: Premium is $249 a year as of October 2026, with a 30-day free trial.
- Watch-out: the long-run returns Zacks publishes for its #1 Rank are its own figures from a hypothetical portfolio, not an audited record. Read them as a claim.
- Who it suits: fundamental investors who want an earnings-momentum check on names they already follow.
Shishin
That is us, and we are a different kind of tool, so we list ourselves last. Shishin is not a fundamentals site: it publishes a daily ranked board of roughly 1,000 US stocks, scored on eight price, volume and trend components, with one of four rules-based engines (Genbu, Suzaku, Byakko, Seiryu) selected by a market-regime classifier. We do not use P/E or dividend yield in the scores.
- Strengths: every signal is paper-traded in public, misses included, at /track-record, and committed to a tamper-evident log at /verify, so the ranking can be judged on a record rather than a claim. Data is point-in-time and split- and dividend-adjusted.
- What free limits: the free board is delayed; the paid tier is same-day. There are no financial statements, valuation tools or charting workspace.
- Watch-out: our live record is short. Weigh it as you would any new system, using the questions in how to vet a track record.
- Who it suits: people who want a systematic, price-based shortlist with an auditable history, alongside the research sites above.
Which free stock analysis website for which job?
Pick by task, not by brand. The strongest free setup in October 2026 is usually three or four sites used together.
| Job | First choice (free) | Second choice |
|---|---|---|
| Screening the whole market | Finviz | Stock Analysis, TradingView screener |
| Charting and technical analysis | TradingView | Koyfin |
| Financial statements (recent) | Stock Analysis | Yahoo Finance |
| Fundamentals over a decade | Macrotrends | EDGAR (10-K archive) |
| Primary filings and footnotes | SEC EDGAR | Company investor-relations site |
| Comparing peers side by side | Koyfin | Stock Analysis |
| Ideas with a public record | Shishin (delayed board) | Zacks Rank, as one input |
A simple workflow: build a shortlist in a screener, read the last few years of statements on a fundamentals site, check the long-run trend on Macrotrends, read the latest 10-K risk factors on EDGAR, then look at the chart. Each step uses a different free tier, so no single paywall blocks you.
Is free stock analysis good enough?
For most individual investors, yes. The free tiers above cover screening, charts, five or so years of statements, and the primary filings themselves. What money buys is mostly convenience: longer history in one place, exports, alerts, real-time consolidated quotes, and no ads.
Paying makes sense when a specific limit binds your process: you trade intraday and need real-time primary-exchange data, you model companies in a spreadsheet and need exports, or you screen often enough that saved screens and alerts save real time. If you hold for months, a one-minute or end-of-day delay rarely changes a decision. If you are unsure, our piece on active vs passive investing asks the prior question of whether stock-picking is worth the effort at all.
Which free stock sites did not make the list, and why?
- Morningstar. Excellent research, but fair value estimates, moat ratings, full analyst reports and the screener sit in Morningstar Investor ($249 a year or $34.95 a month as of October 2026). The free site is a preview.
- Seeking Alpha. The free Basic account gives breaking news, portfolios, alerts and a preview of Premium content; Quant Ratings, unlimited articles and transcripts need Premium ($299 a year at renewal as of October 2026).
- Google Finance. Fine for quick quotes and a portfolio list. Its disclaimer says NASDAQ and NYSE prices are real-time for trades on those exchanges, with consolidated volume delayed 15 minutes, but statements and screening are thin next to the sites above.
Common traps with free stock analysis tools
- Not knowing which price you are seeing. “Free real-time” often means one venue’s trades, not the consolidated tape, and “delayed” ranges from one minute to the prior close. Check the delay label before acting on an intraday level.
- Free tiers that gate the useful part. A screener that returns only the top four results, or statements cut at two years, can quietly bias what you look at. Know the cap before you trust the output.
- “AI ratings” with no track record. A score is only as good as its out-of-sample history. In March 2024 the SEC charged two investment advisers for misleading claims about their use of AI, the first “AI washing” cases. Ask for a dated, complete record, as set out in our seven-question checklist.
- Self-reported backtests. A rank’s “average annual gain since” a distant year is a hypothetical, usually before costs. See why backtests lie.
- Trusting a summary over the filing. Data vendors normalise numbers differently. When two sites disagree, the 10-K on EDGAR is the tiebreaker.
- Confusing tools with answers. Every site here helps you analyse; none removes the risk of being wrong.
Where Shishin fits, honestly
We built Shishin to answer a narrower question than a research site: which US stocks currently score best on price, volume and trend evidence, under rules that are published and tracked in public. It complements a fundamentals site rather than replacing one. If you want to see how the ranking is assembled, read how to read the Shishin board and why the free board is delayed. The real test is the record at /track-record, not this paragraph.
Sources & further reading
- Finviz, “Finviz Elite” (free vs Elite comparison) and Screener help, as of October 2026. finviz.com
- TradingView, “Pricing” and “Is US stock market data free by default?”, as of October 2026. tradingview.com
- Stock Analysis, “Stock Analysis Pro”, as of October 2026. stockanalysis.com
- Yahoo Finance, subscription plans and plan comparison, as of October 2026. finance.yahoo.com
- Koyfin, “Pricing”, as of October 2026. koyfin.com
- Simply Wall St, “Plans”, as of October 2026. simplywall.st
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR full-text search and developer resources (fair-access guidance). sec.gov
- U.S. SEC, press release 2024-36, “SEC Charges Two Investment Advisers with Making False and Misleading Statements About Their Use of Artificial Intelligence,” March 18, 2024. sec.gov
- Zacks Investment Research, Zacks Rank guide and Zacks Premium; Morningstar, Morningstar Investor; Seeking Alpha, Premium subscription price update; Google Finance data disclaimer. All as of October 2026.
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