Learning about personal finance led to learning about saving for retirement, which led to different investing strategies.
Obviously, this included learning about individual company stocks and their financial statements, and down the rabbit hole we went.
Eventually, having some experience in IT, we wanted to make tools that would streamline our company research processes.
Some sites do some things better than our tools, but this is our attempt to consolidate what we look for in one place.
Given enough time and iterations, it can only get better from here.
The SEC has made all company filings public record, available both online and through an API, EDGAR.
Using those previously mentioned IT skills, we 'spoke' with EDGAR and gathered the stats we were looking to analyze for every company on record.
The data cleaning process backfills missing values so that growth rates can be approximated where filing records aren't available. Some missing values are chosen via statistical averaging methods, some are left blank, some made zero, judged appropriately for context. Other approximations are also made to determine average values across different time frames and in different contexts. This is why we emphasize the disclaimer at the bottom of each page: These records here ARE taken from legally reported values, scrutinized heavily by the SEC, however, some values simply weren't available for various reasons. And thus everything here should be taken with a grain of salt, given that accuracy and integrity of values presented might not be at 100%.
So while we use these tools to help our stock analysis process, we highly encourage everyone who visits here to verify our numbers with what's found on other sites, through the SEC's records directly, on the companys' websites directly, or with a licensed financial adviser. Everything on this site is for educational purposes only: Please see our disclaimer below.
There's a disclaimer at the bottom of each page already outlining this, and we recommend you take it seriously.
Everything here is for educational purposes only and in no way constitutes financial or investment advice. We want you to be educated and entertained by using this site, not to make any decisions based on what you see here.
We get this data for free from the SEC. Or... 'free enough', considering internet, hosting, taxes and power bills.
So because we get the data for free at this time, we're attracted to the idea of democratizing it, and how we've organized it, making it free to the people.
We've flirted with different monetization and business plans for the site, but ultimately think it's best to leave it available for all.
Your suggestions for more tools for us to build, feedback on user experience and interface improvements, and other general (friendly) suggestions are highly encouraged via our Ko-Fi page.
If you feel so inclined and find yourself in a place to do so, your willingness to help support this site goes a long way to keeping the site running and means the world to us.
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We've spent years browsing different websites in our quest to understand financial information better. Along the way, we were inspired to build this site for our own use and decided to share it with you in the hopes that it brings you joy or is helpful in your own learning journey.
Below are sites that we still regularly use, draw inspiration for financial data-driven web design from, and recommend to others as a learning resource, not in any particular order.