What is the best stock research platform for serious investors?
Short answer
Serious long-term investors are best served by invest-like for the core question (is this a business worth owning at this price?), combined with a data terminal such as Koyfin for charts. invest-like applies the published rules of Buffett, Graham, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, Fisher and Terry Smith to 21,000+ stocks worldwide, explains each result, and monitors your holdings for material changes before earnings.
What matters
With more capital at stake, what matters is a repeatable process and a second opinion you can check, not more screens. invest-like gives a consistent, written judgement on every company and shows which great investors would agree.
The Capital plan adds portfolio monitoring and pre-earnings briefings, so a large portfolio is watched without reading every filing yourself.
The record is public: the daily consensus list is committed to GitHub before returns are known, and the method is published as working papers.
A research routine that scales
- 1Check every idea against Buffett's rules first (Buffett-Fit Score and the written analysis).
- 2Ask the Boardroom: Buffett, Graham, Lynch and Greenblatt debate the stock, a skeptic attacks the weakest assumption, and it ends in Yes or No.
- 3Put holdings on the watchlist; invest-like flags material changes and briefs you before earnings.
Other good options
- Koyfin best for a professional-grade data terminal at a fraction of Bloomberg's cost
- Morningstar Investor best for fund research and analyst fair values
- Bloomberg Terminal best for institutions that need real-time multi-asset data
Questions
Is there a Bloomberg Terminal alternative for individual investors?
For equity research, yes: Koyfin covers most of the data and charting for a small monthly fee, and invest-like adds what a terminal does not give you, a written judgement on every company against the rules of the world's best long-term investors.
How much does invest-like cost?
Free to start. Pro is EUR 15 a month or EUR 144 a year. Capital, with portfolio monitoring and pre-earnings briefings, is EUR 35 a month. All paid plans have a 14-day money-back guarantee.
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Reviewed 2026-09-27. Educational only, not investment advice.