📚 Free Value Investing Resources (Data, Screeners, Blogs & More)

As a beginning investor, it can be difficult to find reliable sources of financial data and investment insights. Over my 7 years of value investing, I’ve built a large collection of bookmarks that I return to regularly. Below, I’ve organized the best free resources for value investors — covering financial data, stock screeners, insider trading, fund letters, blogs, podcasts, YouTube lectures, and forums.

👉 Also, don’t forget to check out my value investing spreadsheets and book recommendations to strengthen your investing skills.

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📊 Financial Data Sources

• Morningstar – My favorite source for 10 years of company financial data.
• Gurufocus – Limited years of data for free, but excellent for ratios and valuation metrics.
• ADVFN – Not very user-friendly, but offers financial data going back more than 10 years.
• 4-Traders (MarketScreener) – Useful for market consensus and analysis summaries.
• iEDGAR Search – Easy-to-use tool for official SEC filings.
• Dividata – Great for checking dividend history.
• QuickFS – Fast and clean access to key company financials.
• RocketFinancial – Over 10 years of data, requires free registration.
  
  

🔎 Best Free Stock Screeners

• FT Stock Screener
• Finviz Screener
• MarketInOut
• Value Explorer
• Serenity Stocks
• Google Finance Screener
• Unclestock
• TradingView
• Wallmine
• Investing.com Screener
• OTC Markets Screener
  
  

💡 Idea Generation

• The Acquirer’s Multiple
• Jitta
• The Magic Formula
• Dataroma
• InsiderTrading.org
• GuruFocus 52-Week Low List
• WhaleWisdom
• Insider Monkey
• Seeking Alpha
  
  

🕵️ Insider Buying

• OpenInsider (SEC Form 4)
• Profit from Insider Trading
• Real Time Insider Data – Dataroma
• Inside Arbitrage
• GuruFocus Insider Trades
• MarketBeat Insider Trades
• InsiderTracking
• Insider Monitor
• Nasdaq Insider Activity
  
  

🎧 Conference Call Transcripts

• Seeking Alpha Transcripts
  
  

📈 Market Sentiment

• AAII Sentiment Survey
• Barron’s Confidence Index
• CBOE Equity Put/Call Ratio
• The VIX
• Tobin’s Q-Ratio
• Global Stock Market Valuation
  
  

🏢 Company Reviews & Analyst Consensus

• Glassdoor
• Indeed
• TipRanks
• The Motley Fool
  
  

📄 Fund Letters

• Upslope Capital
• Greenhaven Road
• Alluvial Capital
• Sequoia Fund
• Vltava Funds
• Howard Marks Memos
  
  

📚 Fund Letter Collections

• Vintage Value Investing Letters
• Hedge Fund Letters
• Mine Safety Disclosures
  
  

✍️ Value Investing Blogs

• Safal Niveshak
• Base Hit Investing
• Gannon on Investing
• Elementary Value
  
  

🎙️ Investing Podcasts

• The Investors Podcast
• InvestED: Rule #1 Investing
• Invest Like the Best
• Masters in Business
• Focused Compounding
  
  

📺 YouTube Channels

• Investors at Google
• BuffettBooks Online Course
• Mohnish Pabrai Lectures
  
  

💡 Combine these resources with my automatic intrinsic value spreadsheet to take your stock analysis from theory to practice.