Best Free News Tools for Investors

Roic AI

Roic AI provides company financials, ratios, valuations, transcripts, news, stock screens, spreadsheet add-ins, a REST API, and an MCP server. Plans differ by request rate, history, price-data latency, and commercial-use rights.

Seeking Alpha

Seeking Alpha combines market news, contributor research, Quant Ratings, analyst ratings, portfolio alerts, screens, and earnings transcripts. It is useful for idea generation and monitoring. Premium and PRO add deeper research, AI summaries, full transcripts, factor grades, and portfolio tools.

Simply Wall St

Simply Wall St provides visual company reports, fair value estimates, dividend analysis, portfolio checks, broker imports, and global stock ideas. It suits long-term investors who prefer guided research to raw tables.

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.

TradingView

TradingView combines charts, screeners, alerts, Pine Script, paper trading, and broker connections across many asset classes. Basic is free. Paid plans raise chart, indicator, alert, watchlist, history, and portfolio limits. Some real-time exchange data costs extra.

Unusual Whales

Unusual Whales tracks options flow, dark pools, congressional trades, insider activity, market data, alerts, screeners, and social sentiment. It is built for active traders and alternative-data research, not a broker, portfolio ledger, or guarantee that unusual activity predicts returns.

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 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.

BizToc

BizToc aggregates business and finance stories in a configurable grid and chronological Wire feed. It also provides a market snapshot, imagery view, search, RSS, and a RapidAPI feed. Users should open the original publisher before relying on a story.

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.

BuySide Digest - Hedge Fund Letter Database

BuySide Digest is a free searchable collection of hedge-fund letters, manager commentary, tickers, themes, quarters, 13F context, and investment pitches. It is useful for qualitative idea work and alerts when new letters appear. The documents are public, delayed, and opinions rather than live signals.

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.

CatalystWire

CatalystWire scans UK RNS announcements and groups them by possible catalysts. It also provides company, archive, short-position, meeting, and newswire views. Public pages do not state durable account prices or document a developer API.

CEO Watcher

CEO Watcher organizes US insider transactions by historical forward returns, win rates, trade patterns, and filing context. A free weekly newsletter covers selected trades; paid access adds search, feeds, Discord, alerts, and a daily pre-market email.

CEO.CA

CEO.CA combines Canadian small-cap chat rooms with market data for TSX, TSXV, and CSE issuers. It offers watchlists, news, SEDI insider filings, private placements, mobile access, and paid Level II depth. Community posts are leads, not research, and Pro pricing varies by exchange coverage.

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.

ChartMill

ChartMill is a browser screener and charting service for U.S., Canadian, and European stocks and some ETFs. It supports technical and fundamental screens, swing-trading ideas, watchlists, alerts, dashboards, ratings, and strategy templates. It is still a research tool, not a broker or full portfolio ledger.

Chittorgarh.com

Chittorgarh.com covers Indian IPOs, FPOs, rights issues, NCDs, bonds, broker reviews, subscriptions, and GMP estimates. Use the exchange, registrar, and prospectus to verify issue facts. The site does not provide a public API.

Delta by eToro

Delta by eToro is a read-only tracker for stocks, ETFs, funds, crypto, NFTs, forex, commodities, indices, brokers, exchanges, and wallets. Use it to see several accounts in one place. It adds visibility, not another trading venue.

Dividend.com

Dividend.com helps income investors find and compare dividend-paying stocks, ETFs, funds, REITs, MLPs, and preferreds. It combines research, ratings, screens, watchlists, and ex-dividend dates. It is a research site, not a broker or portfolio accounting system.

DivTracker

DivTracker gives web and iOS users a view of dividend income, upcoming payouts, ex-dividend dates, alerts, and CSV exports, with optional U.S. brokerage linking. It handles cash-flow tracking, not trading, general research, or tax-lot accounting.

Earnings Hub

Earnings Hub tracks earnings dates, estimates, results, calls, transcripts, filings, alerts, and watchlists. Its economic, dividend, and IPO calendars extend the event view beyond quarterly reports.

Earnings Whispers

Earnings Whispers focuses on the gap between reported results and market expectations. It provides whisper estimates, calendars, sentiment, grades, options context, and post-earnings drift signals. Use it to frame an earnings setup, not to predict a guaranteed move.

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.

ETF.com

ETF.com combines an ETF screener with editorial research. Search and compare U.S. ETFs, inspect flows and holdings, save watchlists, use Portfolio Builder, and follow launches, closures, and fund education.

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.

Federal Reserve Board (FRB.gov)

FRB.gov is the Federal Reserve's primary source for policy material, FOMC dates, statistical releases, interest rates, balance sheets, bank data, FX, industrial production, and downloadable series. It is official macro infrastructure, not a commercial investing terminal.

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.

FinancialJuice

FinancialJuice delivers live market headlines, audio squawk, text updates, macro-calendar context, and event alerts across equities, rates, FX, commodities, crypto, and futures. Its WebSocket API exposes headlines and calendar events. It is for awareness around releases and news, not deep valuation; real-time and API access depend on the plan.

Finimize

Finimize turns market news and investing education into a daily newsletter and mobile app. Free readers get concise finance news; Pro adds investment theses, entry points, risks, sizing, ongoing coverage, live ideas, model portfolios, and performance tracking. It is a content and ideas service, not a broker, accounting tool, API, or deep analytics terminal.

Fintel

Fintel brings short interest, off-exchange volume, institutional ownership, insider trades, ETF exposure, options sentiment, filings, screens, alerts, APIs, and AI research into ticker pages. It is useful for studying positioning and crowding before deeper fundamental work. Premium data, exports, options flow, AI, and portfolio tools depend on the plan, and the signals are inputs rather than recommendations.

getquin

getquin is a web and mobile tracker for portfolios and net worth. It connects brokers and banks, follows multiple assets and dividends, and adds AI analysis, retirement planning, budgeting, liabilities, insurance, and a social investing community. It is aimed at European retail investors who want one overview, with premium features and regional prices set in-app.

Google Trends

Google Trends measures relative search interest by place and time. Investors use it to watch attention, demand proxies, brand momentum, consumer themes, and news spikes. The index is normalized, not exact query volume or revenue. The web interface is broad, while official API access is limited and BigQuery covers selected queries.

Groww - IPOs (Apply & Calendar)

Groww IPO is the IPO calendar and application flow inside Groww for Indian retail investors. Browse upcoming, open, and closed issues, apply through a UPI mandate, track allotment and listing, and follow updates in the same broker app. The flow requires Groww account and KYC eligibility; its separate trading API does not document IPO applications.