TIKR alternative: nightly re-checks

TIKR is institutional-grade data at a retail price: long history, global reach, analyst estimates and a transcript archive. ValueScreener holds none of those. It reads US filings, shows where every figure came from, and tells you the day a number your reasoning depends on stops being true. This is a comparison between depth of data and a job done with it.

What both do

Both put ten years or more of company financials on screen, both screen on computed fundamentals, and both offer valuation models. Their pricing page, read 2026-09-18, publishes a screener metered at 1, 10, 30 and unlimited saved screens across the four tiers, and "Unlimited Valuation Models" on Ultimate.

The difference that decides it

Their dataset is wider and longer than anything this product's filings pipeline can produce, and several parts of it cannot be computed at all.

From their own pricing page and its comparison table: "Data for 100,000+ Global Stocks", "6 Regions, 92 Countries & 136 Exchanges". Financial history runs 5 years and 8 quarters on Free, 10 years and 20 quarters on Plus, 10 years and 40 quarters on Pro and 30 years and 40 quarters on Ultimate. Charting is a separate row and runs further on Pro, at 20 years. Transcripts run from a 90-day history on Free to full history on Ultimate. Analyst estimates run 1, 2, 4 and 5 years forward by tier.

Their tier cards and their comparison table do not always agree, and where they differ both are recorded here rather than one being chosen. The Free card says "3 Years Financial History" while the table's financial history row says 5Y. The Plus card says "5 Saved Screens" while the table says 10. The Ultimate card says "15 Years of Earnings Call Audio + Slide Presentations" while the table's audio and slides row says full history. The figures quoted in the paragraph above are the comparison table's, because it is the more specific of the two surfaces.

Forward analyst estimates in particular are a licensed dataset. They are not something a filings pipeline can derive, and this product does not carry them.

What this product does instead is a process rather than a dataset. A thesis holds your reasons in your own words and the numbers those reasons need. Every night, after new filings are ingested, each number is recomputed from the filed statements and tested again, and one email goes out on the day one breaks. Nothing arrives when nothing breaks. On their pricing page as of 2026-09-18 we found "Custom market newsfeeds" and a "Catalyst Tracker" but no statement that a user-set fundamental condition emails on breach, and no written note field on a holding. Those are absences of published evidence on the page read, not statements that the features do not exist.

The same applies to provenance. "Company filings" is a published row in their comparison table, so filings are reachable inside the product. A trace from a displayed figure back to the statement line and filing date is not described there.

What each costs

Their figures are quoted from their own pricing page as read on 2026-09-18, with the Annual Billing toggle active, which is the page default. They publish monthly rates under annual billing and no annual total, so none is stated here: multiplying theirs would make it our number rather than theirs.

Where TIKR is better

Thirty years of financial history and forty quarters is three times the fundamental window here, and full-history transcripts with audio and slide decks are a category of evidence a ratio table does not contain at all.

They also publish a guru holdings dataset, from the top 40 funds on the free tier to 10,000 or more funds above it. Tracking filed holdings is something this product has decided not to build, so their answer is the only one of the two.

Coverage of 92 countries and 136 exchanges reaches companies this product cannot see. If your list has a name on a market this product does not cover, that settles the question on its own.

Wall Street analyst estimates out five years, estimate revision trends and management guidance are forward-looking inputs that filings do not provide and arithmetic cannot manufacture.

Their free tier covers US stocks with no card at all, and the paid entry is $17.95 a month on annual billing; ours is in the table above. Both have a way in that costs nothing.

Who should pick which

If the limit you keep hitting is how far back the data goes, or how far across the world it reaches, or that you want to read what management actually said on the call, take theirs.

If the limit you keep hitting is that nobody tells you when the reason you bought a company stopped being true, that is the thing this product was built to fix, and it does it on companies listed on NYSE, NASDAQ and NYSE American, plus 54 other markets with a Home Market Pack (see each market). Both are research tools. Neither gives advice about a security, and neither does this page.

What this leaves out

Every claim about TIKR here was read on their own pricing page and its comparison table on 2026-09-18. Three of their tier cards disagree with their own comparison table, and both readings are quoted above rather than resolved. Where this page says a capability was not found, that is absence of published evidence on the page read, not a statement that it does not exist.