GuruFocus vs The Motley Fool comparison

GuruFocus focuses on Screeners, Stock Ideas, and Stock Comparison while The Motley Fool specializes in Stock Ideas, Portfolio, and Watchlist. They overlap in 7 categories, so choose based on your preferred workflow and pricing.

Good news—both GuruFocus and The Motley Fool offer free plans. You can try each platform without commitment and only pay when you need premium features.

GuruFocus provides API access for programmatic data retrieval and custom integrations. The Motley Fool doesn't currently offer an API, so you'll need to use their web interface.

Choose GuruFocus if you need Global value-investing research platform covering ~100,000 stocks in ~100 markets plus 8,000+ institutional investors and 15,000+ mutual funds holdings, designed to provide historical financial and valuation data for long-term investors., and All-in-One Screener offers 500+ fundamental, valuation, profitability, growth, dividend, guru and insider filters, supports custom filters/formulas and screening by regions, countries, exchanges and user portfolios.. Go with The Motley Fool if Stock Advisor membership includes two new stock recommendations per month, currently priced at $199/year, with a 30-day refund policy., and Tiered memberships expand access: Epic ($499/year) adds research and scorecards; Epic Plus ($1,999/year) includes the real-money Moneyball Portfolio with daily guidance; Fool Portfolios ($3,999/year) provides access to Tom Gardner’s live portfolios; Fool One is an all-access bundle. better fits how you invest.

Both cover Stocks, and ETFs. GuruFocus also includes Mutual Funds, Options, and Funds.

GuruFocus supports data exports to Excel, Image, PDF, and JSON. The Motley Fool has more limited export options.

GuruFocus includes a stock screener for finding investment ideas. The Motley Fool focuses on other analytical tools.

Both platforms include portfolio tracking, so you can monitor your holdings, performance, and allocation in one place.