SteadyShares vs Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance is free, fast and universal. It is also the reason a lot of people think a stock page is just a wall of numbers.
Yahoo has better coverage and faster quotes. It gives you data. It does not tell you what any of it means, or whether it is any good.
Where Yahoo Finance is better
Almost every listed security on earth, with quotes faster than ours. For simply looking up a price, it is unbeatable and free.
No account, no friction, universally linked. We use it ourselves as a data source and say so.
Where we are better
Yahoo will show you a P/E of 31 and a moat of nothing. It will not tell you whether 31 is cheap for this business, or that for a cyclical a low P/E is a warning rather than a bargain. We do.
A DCF against the price, a moat score with the returns that back it up, and the company set against its actual rivals.
Every metric on our pages links to a definition, a formula, and a thing you can drag until it breaks. Yahoo assumes you already know.
Non-US fundamentals are patchy, and we say so on the page. Yahoo presents a zero and a missing value identically, which is how we ended up publishing a study about it.
If you want a price, a chart and a headline in three seconds, use Yahoo. We do.
If you want to know whether the company is any good, and why.
See the difference in thirty seconds
Open any of our 30 screens. Every one prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong. Free, no account.
See the screensWe have tried to describe Yahoo Finance fairly and to concede the points where it genuinely beats us. If we have got something wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Nothing here is financial advice.