Introduction

My website offers you a lot of information that you won’t find anywhere else in this form. But if you are looking for current stock market prices with detailed charts etc., then there are plenty of sites on the Internet for this, I don’t have to do that too. In the web tips section, we want to introduce you to interesting, high-quality and mostly free websites that will certainly be useful to you.

New articles will be added to the section regularly. Please note that although many of the offers presented are free of charge, there are also paid versions of many of them, which of course have considerably more functions. We will limit ourselves to the free versions, but you are of course free to subscribe to the premium versions and benefit from a wide range of additional options.

Key facts

• Premium plans are still very expensive
• Homepage quite overloaded, but with lots of information
• Displays global stock exchanges and shares
• Many small but very powerful functions that you won’t find elsewhere (such as news chart, see below)
• Free version only allows a certain number of views per day, after which a call for the subscription is made. So you have to wait for the next day to retrieve data again. Very unusual and yet a bummer.

Details

As the name suggests, MarketScreener was originally a classic stock screener. Such screeners make it possible to pick out very specific stocks from a large number of stocks using many filters. They are of course dynamic and therefore always up-to-date. If, for example, the P/E ratio (profit/earnings ratio) falls below the value of 10 and your screener only shows values above 10, this company is automatically filtered out.

Premium version

The website has different plans, here is an overview:

If you scroll further down the homepage, you will find more articles, various statistics and a selection of stocks that are currently “trending”, i.e. in high demand. It’s nice that there are also mini charts and the latest news. This is followed by an economic calendar (which I also currently have) and other articles. There’s a lot of information, sometimes a bit of a wild jumble, but at least it’s informative.

If you select any stock, you are taken unsurprisingly to the detailed view of the company. The information is overwhelming. And the best is, most information is accessible as free user (registered by e-mail for instance). You get balance sheets, ratings, extensive charts, stock news, insider trading etc., and the displayed information is much more than just basic. Actually, what you get for free with MarketScreener, other websites charge you heftily. So yes, it’s much value for (no) or little money!

Another tab is the Financials. Here there is a very detailed overview of the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow. There is even more information further down on the screen with more charts and graphs, really a lot of detail in a small space, and that too free of charge.
Other tabs like News, Quotes, Calendar, Sector and so on contain more valuable information from all over the world’s stock exchanges. On every page you can scroll down to show even more charts, details and lists. Really impressive, admittedly!

Other notable tabs are Consensus, where the analysts’ price targets are displayed over time (in text and graphical form). There are also tabs for news, the calendar for the company with important dates, charts with many filter and setting options, which may be a little intimidating at first, but leave little to be desired. In the charts, it is particularly worth emphasizing that you can make many comparisons, e.g. with similar companies or the industry sector. The “News Chart”, which displays key points directly in the chart where news about the company has appeared, is very exciting. In the case of well-known companies, this can of course be a large number of individual points. Nevertheless, it provides a good overview of the news and its impact on each company. An exceptional function!

The stock screener also offers a variety of functions. Portfolios are currently only available in the paid versions, which is certainly a bit of a downer (perhaps this will change in the future). You also have other usual tools like tops/flops from different stock markets, plus an economic calendar, a financial calendar, sector research etc.

Conclusion

The prices are quite high, but as mentioned several times before, there are some extra features that others don’t offer. The charts are professional, as are the screeners. If you can deal with the browser limit in the free version, you will be well served if you are looking for specific information. The news function is up to date, the analyst ratings and recommendations are valuable, but also cost money (only included in the premium version and above).

Incidentally, the prices listed are affordable on a monthly basis. If you choose the annual option, i.e. pay in advance, it is almost 20% cheaper.

In my opinion, this service stands out due to certain details, but the price is still rather high for the occasional hobby investor. Beginners should start with the free version, but if you’re really serious and trade regularly or even as a profession, this service is one of the best on the market. You won’t regret your investment, because you will get such a huge amount of data that you can play with. Even though the website looks a bit outdated (design-wise), I can see the reason. There are just so much details on display, no space can be wasted for a modern, lightweight and airy design.