Seeking Alpha vs Yahoo Finance comparison

Seeking Alpha focuses on News, Alerts, and Calendar while Yahoo Finance specializes in News, Alerts, and Calendar. They overlap in 11 categories, so choose based on your preferred workflow and pricing.

Good news—both Seeking Alpha and Yahoo Finance offer free plans. You can try each platform without commitment and only pay when you need premium features.

Choose Seeking Alpha if you need Real-time financial news and market-moving analysis with alerting controls (content + ratings/price + portfolio digests)., and Portfolio tracker supports manual lot entry (shares, price, date, transaction type) and downloads/export to Excel (.xlsx).. Go with Yahoo Finance if Global exchange coverage with explicit exchange suffixes, delay tables, and data-provider attributions (e.g., ICE Data Services; CoinMarketCap for crypto)., and Portfolios + watchlists to track holdings/performance; supports importing holdings via CSV. better fits how you invest.

Both cover Stocks, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Commodities, and Cryptos. Yahoo Finance adds coverage for Options, Futures, and Currencies.

Yes, both platforms provide real-time market data. This makes either suitable for active trading strategies where timing matters.

Both platforms let you export data to spreadsheets (). This is useful for custom analysis or record-keeping.

Both Seeking Alpha and Yahoo Finance include stock screeners. Try each to see which filtering options and interface you prefer.

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