Best Free Tools for Analysts

Portfolio123

Portfolio123 combines stock and ETF screens, ranking systems, point-in-time backtests, portfolio tracking, broker links, DataMiner, and API access.

Quartr

Quartr provides earnings calls, live transcripts, filings, reports, decks, estimates, AI chat, and investor-relations data. The app is useful for free call and transcript access; Pro and API serve professional research, MCP, webhooks, and integrations.

SEC.gov (EDGAR)

SEC.gov EDGAR is the official free source for U.S. company, fund, insider, and 13F filings, with full-text search, RSS, bulk archives, and public JSON APIs. It is the validation source for filings research, not a polished commercial terminal.

Stock Analysis

Stock Analysis combines screeners, financial statements, calendars, news, charts, forecasts, watchlists, and portfolios on web and mobile. Paid plans add longer history, higher limits, exports, ETF holdings, broker sync, and analyst filters. The service does not provide brokerage execution, advice, or programmatic data access.

TIKR

TIKR is a browser equity-research terminal for global fundamentals, statements, estimates, valuation, transcripts, filings, and screens. It suits long-term stock research; paid plans add history, coverage, exports, and higher workflow limits.

TipRanks

TipRanks combines analyst ratings, targets, expert rankings, Smart Score, AI analysis, news sentiment, insider signals, hedge-fund activity, and portfolios. It is useful for comparing market views quickly, with Premium and Ultimate adding deeper expert, portfolio, export, and AI tools.

13F Insight

13F Insight pulls institutional holdings, insider trades, and ownership filings into one research workspace. Its AI can answer questions with filing citations, but the filings arrive late and the generated summaries still need a check against the SEC documents.

Alpha Spread

Alpha Spread combines DCF and relative-value estimates, stock reports, screens, alerts, analyst forecasts, watchlists, and a company-question assistant. Free use is metered weekly.

Alpha Vantage

Alpha Vantage is an API-first source for market and economic data. Developers, students, quants, and analysts can pull stocks, funds, FX, crypto, options, commodities, fundamentals, news, sentiment, and macro series with one key. The free quota is small, and commercial use needs separate licensing.

AlphaResearch

AlphaResearch puts filings, transcripts, press releases, estimates, news, insider trades, ownership, and fund holdings in one searchable workspace. It is aimed at document-heavy research. Global coverage and spreadsheet add-ins require Enterprise, and the premium trial asks for a card.

AUM 13F

AUM 13F is a low-cost filing research app for asset managers, institutional holdings, private funds, real-estate managers, and LP relationships. It brings together AUM, 13F holdings, EDGAR, IAPD, CAFR-sourced portfolios, source links, and alerts. The underlying filings are still delayed and incomplete.

Bank of England

The Bank of England site is the primary free source for UK monetary-policy decisions, MPC minutes, Monetary Policy Reports, rates, exchange rates, statistics, and yield-curve files. It is a reference source for macro research, not a trading app. Some series arrive as downloads rather than through a complete API.

Bank of Japan (BOJ)

The Bank of Japan site publishes Japan's monetary-policy releases, meeting calendar, statistics, charts, time-series downloads, and API access. It is useful for primary-source rates, FX, money stock, TANKAN, balance-of-payments, and central-bank data. It is not a security research or trading terminal.

BIS Data Portal

The Bank for International Settlements' free data portal covers banking, credit, debt, derivatives, liquidity, property prices, exchange rates, central banks, and payments. It includes charts, downloads, a release calendar, and an SDMX API.

Bloomberg (Europe)

Bloomberg Europe is the regional Bloomberg.com newsroom and app experience. It offers European and global business reporting, market snapshots, watchlists, alerts, TV, radio, podcasts, newsletters, and Businessweek. It is a media subscription, not Bloomberg Terminal, execution, or institutional data access.

Börsdata

Börsdata gives investors long-history Nordic fundamentals, ratios, screens, ownership, insider and short-selling data, technical charts, reports, watchlists, calendars, and spreadsheet or API access. It is strongest for Nordic equities. Global data, holdings, Excel or Sheets workflows, and the REST API depend on the plan.

Calcbench

Calcbench extracts and standardizes financial data and disclosure text from SEC filings. Users can trace values to source documents, compare filings, work in Excel, or license API access separately.

Capitol Trades

Capitol Trades tracks U.S. congressional trading disclosures under the STOCK Act. Filter trades by politician, issuer, chamber, party, committee, state, asset, transaction type, sector, size, and filing details. Disclosures can arrive after the trade, and reported amounts are ranges rather than exact fills.

Cbonds

Cbonds is a bond-data service for professional and private investors. Search bonds, quotes, yields, ratings, new issues, events, watchlists, and portfolios. Companies can also license API and file feeds or an Excel add-in.

Changeflow (Trackly)

Changeflow, formerly Trackly, monitors web pages, PDFs, feeds, and API endpoints. It summarizes detected changes for review. It does not supply market prices or execute trades.

CME FedWatch

CME FedWatch converts 30-Day Fed Funds futures into market-implied probabilities for upcoming FOMC rate outcomes. It is useful for rates and macro monitoring, with a free web tool and paid end-of-day or intraday APIs. The probabilities are market pricing, not Fed guidance.

DATAROMA

DATAROMA is a focused tracker for superinvestor 13F portfolios, portfolio changes, and insider buying. It is handy for finding managers and ideas to investigate. Verify the filing date, position size, and current fundamentals before drawing a conclusion.

Dune

Dune lets users query decoded blockchain data with SQL and turn it into dashboards, APIs, alerts, uploads, and agent workflows. It is for custom onchain research across many chains, not a fixed crypto market-data screen.

ECB Data Portal

The European Central Bank's free portal provides euro-area statistics, policy rates, exchange rates, yield curves, macroeconomic series, metadata, and an SDMX API.

EDINET

EDINET is Japan's official corporate-disclosure system. Search issuers, securities, funds, stock codes, document types, keywords, and dates, then retrieve filings, XBRL resources, taxonomy files, and API results.

EIA Open Data

EIA Open Data is the U.S. government's source for energy statistics and operational data. Browse the series or use the free API, bulk files, and spreadsheet tools for commodity, utility, macro, and energy-market research.

EMMA

EMMA is the official transparency site for U.S. municipal securities. It combines trade prices, offering documents, continuing disclosures, ratings, issuer information, new-issue calendars, alerts, and market statistics for muni-bond research.

EPSMomentum

EPSMomentum focuses on earnings momentum and entry timing. It combines estimate revisions, post-earnings drift, timing signals, scanners, AI analysis, and market dashboards for U.S. stocks and ETFs.

ETF Central

ETF Central is a free site for screening, comparing, monitoring, and learning about U.S.-listed ETFs. It includes flows, news, a 100-ETF watchlist, model portfolios, and a portfolio builder.

ETFdb ETF Screener

ETFdb is a VettaFi database and screener for U.S.-listed ETFs and ETPs. Filter by returns, flows, expenses, ESG, dividends, risk, holdings, taxes, technicals, and ratings, then use the results for structured fund selection.

European Central Bank (ECB) - Statistics & Data

European Central Bank Statistics & Data is the ECB's primary source for euro-area statistics, policy rates, FX reference rates, yield curves, inflation, macro indicators, downloads, and SDMX access. It supplies the data behind macro research, not investment-app commentary.

EveryTicker

EveryTicker is a free research site for U.S. stocks, including companies with little analyst coverage. It has fundamental reports, a stock screener, watchlists, 13F holdings, financial data, and a weekly themes newsletter.

FactorsToday

FactorsToday publishes factor returns and stock exposures through web tools, downloads, and an open REST API. Its portfolio analysis, attribution, optimizer, factor builder, and hedge builder are research models, not brokerage or accounting systems.

FDIC BankFind Suite (BankFind)

The FDIC's free lookup and data service covers insured U.S. banks and branches, bank histories, structure changes, failures, financials, deposits, API access, and bulk files.

Financial Modeling Prep (FMP)

Financial Modeling Prep provides API and spreadsheet access to market data, fundamentals, news, calendars, transcripts, ownership, and macroeconomic data. The free Basic tier is an end-of-day test plan. Real-time, global, transcript, 13F, intraday, and bulk access require paid plans. Display or redistribution requires a separate commercial agreement.

FinancialData.Net

FinancialData.Net provides market data, fundamentals, ownership, options, funds, ESG, calendars, and news through REST, Excel, and MCP interfaces. It covers stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, futures, crypto, foreign exchange, commodities, OTC securities, and indexes. The free plan is limited, and the homepage security claims are not supported by a public audit report.

Finbox

Finbox combines global stock screens with company financials, valuation models, charts, watchlists, and spreadsheet exports. Investors can move from a screen into a company model or peer comparison. Regional access and export rights depend on the subscription.

FINRA Fixed Income Data

FINRA Fixed Income Data publishes U.S. bond details, TRACE transactions, trade history, and aggregate market reports. It is useful for checking executed prices and volumes. TRACE is not a live quote system, exchange, or execution venue.

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

FRED is the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' free macroeconomic database. Use its series, charts, release calendar, Excel tools, mobile apps, and REST API for inflation, rates, GDP, employment, FX, credit, and market indicators. It is macro context, not equity fundamentals or brokerage infrastructure; API access needs a free key.

FXMacroData

FXMacroData supplies timestamped macro releases, central-bank data, rates, yields, calendars, COT, FX reference data, dashboards, MCP tools, exports, and an API. The free endpoints cover recent USD data. Full history, other currencies, protected datasets, and customer-facing display rights require paid access.