VOL. XCIV, NO. 247
★ FINANCIAL TOOLS & SERVICES DIRECTORY ★
PRICE: 5 CENTS
ETF Research Center
ETF Research Center, powered by AltaVista Research, offers deep ETF analytics. The free plan provides access to basic screeners and watchlists, while paid tiers unlock fundamentals and valuations, complete exportable holdings for many issuers, PDF tear sheets, portfolio builder features (2 portfolios on Individual vs. 40 on Professional), and customizable PDF portfolio reports. Paid plans start with a one-month free trial.
Key features
- Equity Power Screener to filter ETFs by performance, technical indicators (beta, volatility, RSI), fundamentals, valuations, and ratings (advanced criteria gated to premium plans).
- Fund Finder with multi-tab views across general, equity, and fixed income metrics; many criteria reserved for Individual and Professional tiers.
- Fund Overlap tool showing pairwise overlap of holdings and top differences, plus a Portfolio Builder that generates overlap matrices against benchmarks.
- Stock Locator to find all ETFs holding a specific stock, showing weights and shares; the full list is available with a free account.
- Total Cost of Ownership comparison that factors in expense ratios, spreads, and commissions, adjustable for user-defined holding period and assumptions.
- Portfolio Builder lets users create, test, and monitor ETF portfolios. Features include allocation views, overlap analysis, fundamentals aggregation, backtesting, and ZoomLens holdings drill-downs. Professional subscribers can also generate customizable PDF portfolio reports.
- ALTAR Score™ and five-tier recommendations (Speculative / Overweight / Neutral / Underweight / Avoid) based on forward-looking fundamentals; fixed-income ALTAR scores adjust yield to maturity for default factors and fees.
- Clear plan tiers: Basic (free) includes watchlists and charting; Individual ($29/mo) adds fundamentals, complete holdings (for many issuers), and two portfolios; Professional ($99/mo) adds tear sheets, 40 portfolios, and PDF portfolio reports. All paid plans include a 30-day free trial.
- Watchlists with monitoring of 80+ investment criteria.
- Coverage includes both U.S. and Canadian-domiciled ETFs.
- Fund pages include money flow charts and comparable ETFs by overlap.
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