Value investing tools are a different category from generic "stock analysis software." A value investor does not just want 200 metrics on a screen. They want to answer three questions fast: is this a quality business, what is it worth, and is the current price a margin of safety below that. This post compares the 9 tools that actually help with those questions in 2026.
Disclosure up front: I built one of the tools here (invest-like.com), so treat my ranking with appropriate skepticism. I have tried to be specific about where the others are genuinely better.
The 9 tools
1. invest-like.com - multi-framework consensus + AI verdicts
What it does: scores every public stock against seven documented investor frameworks (Buffett, Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, Smith), then adds an AI verdict layer (Buffett Brain reasoning, a Boardroom debate between four investors, and Ask Buffett RAG chat against the real Berkshire letters). Halal Mode applies an AAOIFI screen on top.
Price: free tier (rankings on 21,000+ stocks plus a few AI verdicts a week), Pro at 15 EUR/month, Founder's Plan 299 EUR lifetime.
Best for: investors who want the "which frameworks does this stock pass, and why" answer without building the checklist themselves.
Weakness: the raw-data terminal experience (10-year granular financials, exportable) is deeper on TIKR. Disclosure: I built it.
2. TIKR - institutional data at an individual price
What it does: 5 to 10 years of detailed financials, global coverage, analyst estimates. The closest thing to a Bloomberg data feed at a retail price.
Price: around 15 USD/month.
Best for: investors who bring their own framework and want the deepest fundamentals to run it on.
Weakness: it is a data terminal, not an opinion engine. You do the interpretation.
3. GuruFocus - guru 13F tracking + global universe
What it does: tracks the 13F filings of famous value investors, has the widest stock universe, and ships a built-in DCF and Graham Number calculator.
Price: roughly 50 to 500 USD/year across tiers.
Best for: seeing what Buffett, Klarman, Greenblatt and other legends actually own right now.
Weakness: dated interface, and the premium value screens sit in the higher tiers.
4. Simply Wall St - the best visual layer
What it does: the proprietary Snowflake graphic scores value, quality, growth, health and past performance, with a polished mobile app.
Price: about 100 to 180 USD/year.
Best for: investors who think visually and want a fast at-a-glance read.
Weakness: the methodology behind the Snowflake is not fully disclosed, and there is no framework-by-framework breakdown.
5. Stock Unlock - custom screen builder
What it does: a flexible screener with 250+ metrics, forecasting tools and an active community.
Price: around 10 to 20 USD/month.
Best for: investors who want to build and save their own precise value screens.
Weakness: no AI narrative layer; you write your own conclusions.
6. Finviz - the fastest free screener
What it does: a quick, free stock screener with a huge preset library and a clean heatmap.
Price: free, Elite around 40 USD/month.
Best for: the first-pass filter before you go deep in another tool.
Weakness: shallow on qualitative and framework analysis.
7. Value Line - the classic research sheet
What it does: the one-page Value Line sheet has been a value-investing staple for decades, with proprietary timeliness and safety ranks.
Price: roughly 200 to 600 USD/year.
Best for: investors who grew up on the physical sheets and want that exact format.
Weakness: expensive relative to modern digital tools, and the interface shows its age.
8. Koyfin - charting + macro
What it does: strong dashboards for financials, estimates and macro data, with excellent charting.
Price: free tier, paid from around 40 USD/month.
Best for: investors who want a Bloomberg-style dashboard feel for data exploration.
Weakness: no explicit value-framework scoring.
9. Old School Value - Graham-style spreadsheets
What it does: focuses on classical value screens (net-net, Graham Number, Piotroski) with a spreadsheet-first workflow.
Price: around 30 to 50 USD/month.
Best for: deep-value and quantitative Graham investors.
Weakness: narrower audience, and the classical screens overlap with cheaper tools.
Which tool for which investor
| Investor type | Recommended stack |
|---|
| New to value investing | invest-like.com free tier + Finviz |
| Serious, framework-driven | invest-like.com Pro + TIKR for deep data |
| Deep-value / net-net hunter | Old School Value or GuruFocus |
| Wants to copy the legends | GuruFocus (13F tracking) |
| Visual thinker | Simply Wall St + invest-like.com |
For most individual value investors, the sweet spot is one opinion engine (invest-like or Simply Wall St) paired with one raw-data terminal (TIKR or GuruFocus). One without the other leaves a gap: numbers with no framework, or a framework with shallow numbers.
Common questions
What makes a tool a "value investing" tool rather than just a stock screener? A value tool answers quality, worth and margin of safety, not just "filter by P/E under 15." Framework scoring, intrinsic-value estimates and moat analysis are the difference.
Is there a free value investing tool worth using? Yes. The combination of invest-like.com's free tier, Finviz and SEC EDGAR covers a surprising amount of a retail value workflow at zero cost.
Which tool is best for beginners? Start with a tool that explains its reasoning rather than dumping metrics. invest-like.com and Simply Wall St both narrate a verdict, which shortens the learning curve.
Do professional value investors use these? Professionals lean on TIKR, GuruFocus and Bloomberg for data, then apply their own frameworks. The retail advantage of tools like invest-like is that the framework is built in.
Further reading
Educational only. Not investment advice.