ValueScout

Know what a company is worth before you buy it.

ValueScout reads a US-listed company's own SEC filings and shows you what they say: ten years of statements as filed, nine valuation models you can edit, ranks from rules you can read, and daily swing signals with the stop and target already worked out.

  • Numbers straight from SEC EDGAR, no analyst estimates
  • Every figure opens to show its working and which filing it came from
  • Prices and candles from a brokerage feed, updated through the day
  • Research only: nothing is ever traded for you
The company page for Apple: the price chart with its moving averages, then the ratios grouped by profitability, growth, financial strength and valuation
The company page. The chart on top, then the ratios that matter, each with its working one click away.

What you get

Type a ticker and read the company properly in ten minutes. Here is what each page does.

Financials: ten years of revenue, operating income, net income, cash flow, cash and debt, and share count as line charts
FREE

Ten years of statements, exactly as filed

Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow: ten fiscal years and twelve quarters side by side, in the company's own currency. Charts on top, the table below, every line linked to the filing it came from.

Per-share history is put on today's share basis after splits, and that is the only adjustment made.

Intrinsic value: nine models as bars against today's price, with the blended median
PRO

Nine ways to value it, every input yours to change

Discounted cash flow, discounted net income, mean price-to-earnings, PEG and five more, each with its inputs shown. Change a growth rate and the value moves. The blended figure is the median of the nine.

Growth defaults are the company's own history, never an analyst's estimate.

Ranks: predictability, profitability, growth, moat, financial strength and valuation, each with the inputs and the rule
PRO

Six ranks, each one a rule you can read

Predictability, profitability, growth, moat, financial strength and valuation. There is no proprietary score: the rule and its inputs are printed next to the verdict, so you can disagree with it.

Compare: Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Alphabet in columns with the same ratios for each
FREE

Up to twelve companies side by side

The same figures worked out the same way for each company, one column per name. The other S&P 500 companies in the sector are one click away.

Technicals: the setups that fired today, with entry, stop, 1R, target and the shares to buy for each
MAX

Daily signals with the stop and target already worked out

Pick the swing-trading algorithm modules you want; they run across your watchlist or the S&P 500 every day and generate trade signals. Each signal shows the entry, the stop, the target, the shares to buy for the risk you set, the chart with the lines the module reads, and the rule that fired.

You decide what to do with a signal. Nothing is executed for you, on any plan.

Try it: click a row to open its working. Example figures, not a live company.

(Operating cash flow − Capital expenditure) ÷ Revenue
(41,200 − 9,600) ÷ 171,700 = 0.184
Operating cash flow and capital expenditure from the cash-flow statement, revenue from the income statement, all from the same 10-K. Trailing twelve months.
(Long-term debt + Short-term debt) ÷ (Operating income + Depreciation & amortisation)
(38,900 + 6,100) ÷ (29,800 + 7,700) = 1.2
Debt from the balance sheet at the latest quarter; operating income and depreciation summed over the last four quarters.
Free cash flow per share 7.90 · growth 9% for five years, 5% for five more, then 3% · discount rate 9.5%
Change any input and the value is recomputed; the page keeps your inputs. One of nine models; the blended figure is their median.
EVERY PAGE

Every number is a door

Most stock sites give you a figure and ask you to trust it. Here you click the margin and see the two lines from the income statement that made it. If the company reported nothing for a line, the page says so instead of filling it in.

Watchlist: tickers with last price, change and the day's range
FREE

Your watchlist, with live prices

Ten stocks on FREE, fifty on PRO, no limit on MAX. Click a ticker to open its company page; on MAX the daily scan runs over this list.

Plans

FREE is the research page with a short watchlist. PRO adds the valuation, the ranks, news, earnings and an AI brief. MAX, with the daily signals, is coming soon. Prices in US dollars; PRO is paid by card through Stripe and can be cancelled any time.

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For reading a company's own numbers before you decide anything.

  • Overview with the price chart and the ratios, each with its working
  • Financials as filed: ten years, twelve quarters
  • Company metrics with their history
  • Dividend and buybacks
  • Compare up to twelve companies
  • Watchlist of 10 with live prices
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For deciding what a company is worth and whether the price is fair.

  • Everything in FREE, watchlist of 50
  • Intrinsic value: nine editable models, blended
  • Ranks: six stated rules
  • News and the company's own filings
  • Earnings dates and quarter figures
  • AI insights, written from the page's numbers only
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For swing traders who want trade signals generated for them every day. Not on sale yet.

  • Everything in PRO, watchlist without limit
  • Swing-trading algorithm modules you choose from, each generating trade signals
  • Entry, stop, target and the shares for your risk
  • The chart and the rule behind every signal
  • Scan your watchlist or the S&P 500
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Every feature, plan by plan

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Watchlist with live prices10 stocks50 stocksUnlimited
Overview with the price chart, ratios and their working✓✓✓
Financials as filed: ten years, twelve quarters✓✓✓
Company metrics with their history✓✓✓
Dividend and buybacks✓✓✓
Compare up to twelve companies✓✓✓
Intrinsic value: nine editable models, blended—✓✓
Ranks: six stated rules—✓✓
News and the company's filings—✓✓
Earnings dates and quarter figures—✓✓
AI insights, written from the page's numbers—✓✓
Swing-trading algorithm modules you choose from, each generating trade signals——✓
The chart and the rule behind every signal——✓
Scan your watchlist or the S&P 500——✓

Sign up free with your email. PRO is a subscription through Stripe, monthly or yearly, and you can cancel from your Account page at any time.

Questions people ask

Where do the numbers come from?

Company figures are read from SEC EDGAR, the regulator's own database of what each company filed, and shown without adjustment beyond putting per-share history on today's share basis after splits. Prices and daily candles come from a brokerage data feed. Every page says when its data was fetched.

Is this investment advice?

No. ValueScout is a research tool: it shows you the company's numbers, the models and the rules, and leaves the decision to you. Nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell.

Does any plan trade for me?

No, and none ever will. MAX gives you the signals as research, with the entry, stop and target worked out; what you do with them is your decision, in your own brokerage account.

How do I pay, and can I cancel?

PRO is paid by card through Stripe, monthly or yearly. You can switch between the two or cancel from your Account page; a cancelled plan runs to the end of the period you paid for. If someone gave you a promotion code, enter it on the checkout page.

What happens when a subscription lapses?

Your account is moved to the FREE plan automatically, on the day the subscription ends or a payment cannot be taken. Your watchlist and everything you did stay; the PRO pages open again as soon as you upgrade.

How do I sign in?

The first time, your free account opens the moment you sign up. After that, enter your email address and we send a one-time link that works for fifteen minutes. With a Google address you can also use Continue with Google: Google confirms it is you, and you are in at once, no link needed; the first time, it creates your free account.

What does the AI brief use?

Only this page's numbers, the company's last four reports and the latest headlines, and it says what it was given. It can be wrong, and it never replaces the figures beside it.

Read the next company properly.

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