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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Margaret was very helpful, generous, and patient with her time. Thorough review of GuruFocus features. An amazing trainer! She has transformed GF to a useable, flexible resource that my financial p... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This is an unbelievable trustworthy site! No promotion of stock by people who own it themselves, but objective information. And how much info? Tons of it! I can not understand all the info and don't... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: I've been using GuruFocus for the better part of 9 years. GuruFocus's data is reliable. If you find an error with other providers, the usual answer does not result in a fix,... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The wide range of current market updates, rating changes, and informational happenings is excellent and takes little time to peruse. I can then delve further into the areas pertaining to my interest... See more

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At GuruFocus, our mission is to provide a combination of historical, financial and valuation data, powerful screeners, charts and comparison tools so investors can make smarter long-term decisions. Founder Dr. Charlie Tian was inspired by the wisdom of legendary investors like Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham and Peter Lynch after the internet bubble burst in 2000. He developed GuruFocus in December of 2004, providing institutional investors’ trading information with the belief that investors would make fewer mistakes if they were to select stocks from the ones that have been researched by the best investors in the world. Focused on serving global investors, GuruFocus strives to become the most comprehensive value investing website available.More stock financials and valuation data are provided, along with trading histories of institutional investors and company executives. Investors can make smarter long-term decisions using powerful tools like the All-in-One Screener, interactive charts and comparison tables. Market valuations as well as economic and industry indicators lead to a better understanding of market cycles and overall valuations. With exhaustive financial data and powerful features, GuruFocus is a one-stop service for millions of value investors. Dedicated to helping others achieve investment success, GuruFocus is constantly developing new tools to generate potential value investing ideas for the long term.GuruFocus is on a fast growth track, expanding our service globally. We now provide Chinese, Japanese and Korean versions of our website. The next step is to open our business to investors in Spain, Portugal and Russia, among other regions, over the next five years as we prepare to go public. As a new generation of investors eagerly enters the ever-changing market, GuruFocus is ready for the next exciting step in our journey.


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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Cant monitor guru trades…weird

I have tried to use the alert function to follow the trades of gurus in my portfolio. I thought that this would typical request for a website called guru focus. Apparently not. However, the customer response to this problem was very impressive. Hopefully, the problem will be rectified quickly.

5 November 2024
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Reply from GuruFocus.com

Dear Vegas Paul,

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and for acknowledging our customer service response. We appreciate your patience and feedback regarding the guru trade monitoring alerts.

I'm pleased to inform you that our technical team has identified and resolved the issue with the alert function for tracking guru trades in portfolios. The feature is now working as intended, allowing users to properly monitor trades of gurus in their portfolios.

We invite you to try the alert function again. If you experience any further issues, please open a support ticket at https://www.gurufocus.com/user/ticket/open and our technical team will assist you promptly. We're committed to ensuring you have the best possible experience with GuruFocus.

Thank you for being a valued member of our community.
Best regards,

GuruFocus Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Data and Analytics



I'm using Gurufocus for years and I'm happy with the service, content and support. You can find lots of data and use it according to your needs or just benefit from the analytics, comments, reports.

I agree that price is little high based on just one region and query quotas create a problem, but all in all, it worths it.

25 October 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Free data, riddled with errors, costs more than an average used family car!

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You can see below how the company responds to genuine experiences: defensively and with harassment, and by flagging my review as not genuine unless I provide additional private data. To the company I say, go find your own errors! It's easy, all you need to do is pick a company and compare it to the financial statements! I have no interest in a free membership. I prefer that you just left me alone!

*****original review*******

The company is selling data that are free (from publicly available financial reports) at a price that costs 100 times its fair value for aggregating and presenting it. Furthermore, from the 5 companies I checked, 5 of them had errors in the data (compared against the financial reports), where the wrong numbers had been copied from the reports. 3 of the 5 used a different unit of measure within the same row (for example, when measuring total assets, it would go from $999,999 to $1.0M), which screws up analysis and strips the larger numbers of data due to the massive rounding.

Pricing structure? Pay PER REGION and if there are any delisted companies there, now you're paying an additional membership for that. To get access to the 5 companies I needed, I had to join a trial that cost over $2000 across two regions and two membership options (to get access to that "delisted" company). For FREE data! If it were $20 for all the data in the dataset it might be worth it, but for that price, I expect perfect data, zero errors, lots of depth.

Then, if you want to cancel the trial, there is no cancel button. I'm pretty sure that's illegal in the UK and Europe. You have to email them and request the cancellation, while they try to convince you to stay. No "close account" button (pretty sure that's illegal, too).

Overall, I can't imagine who this would have value for. You can get all the data from the companies directly going back as far as you like for free and aggregate it. You could go on a freelancing website, dump all the reports on them and ask some random person to compile it all for you, if you wanted, and it would still be a fraction of this cost.

14 October 2024
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Update 10/21/2024:

hi Chris, we have emailed you three times regarding to your review. As I said, if you can point out the errors you mentioned, we will fix the errors ASAP and give you a complimentary membership. Could you please respond? Thank you!

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hi Chris, thank you for the comment. However, your observation on the quality of data and the value we provide is definitely different from the majority of the other reviewers. We have very high rating of satisfaction among our users.

Yes, for a few companies, you can compile the data yourself or in a low cost way. But we cover some 50,000 companies. You cannot do that in a timely fashion and provide to users. Let alone you have to standardize them, adjust all the data for historical stock splits, spin-offs and merger/acquisitions. Actually we don't do it ourselves. We spend tens of thousands of dollars every year to license the data as it is impossible to do it ourselves. We save our users a large amount of time. That is one of the values we provide. Our rankings, warning signs and valuations help our users avoid making mistakes in investing. Our powerful screeners help our users to find the stocks that they would never be able to find without it. Those are the values we provide. Just avoiding one mistake in investing can save a lot more money than the annual membership cost, which is only a little higher than $1 a day for most of the users.

If you think we have errors in data, please open a support ticket with us and let us know. The data accuracy is the number one priority for us. We are the last one who wants have errors in data. Sometimes we do have errors in data. But sometimes the users didn't understand the data presentation and thought it is wrong. The chance of having errors in all the five companies you check is zero. We would love to work with you on the data. If they are indeed wrong and we will fix them asap. We will also give you a complimentary membership for pointing out the error.

This is our 20-th year in business. There are good reasons that we can survive 20 years and are still growing. We will also contact you through email to make sure that the data, if wrong, will be fixed.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I found that having emailed my…

I found that having emailed my questions through made it more effective for the session because James was able to go straight to my issues with a full understanding of what I was asking. I found the session to be extremely informative and look forward to implementing our discussion.

21 September 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very useful stock website

I use this website daily. The main feature is that it provides a lot of technical indicators based on fundamentals. I use them to screen stocks. It also provides very comprehensive historical financial data of each company. Additionally, I think the GF value is a very reliable and helpful index.

9 July 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

GuruFocus is customer centric!

GuruFocus is customer centric!
They respond quickly to customer inquiries. The stock data they provide is easily accessible and comprehensive. I recommend them for investors needed a wide array of stock metrics.

18 April 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Seems impossible to unsubscribe

Seems impossible to unsubscribe. I haven't even clicked on anything related to this, so don't know how these e-mails start!
I would give no stars if possible. Obviously some sort of scam involved.

6 May 2024
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Reply from GuruFocus.com

Dear John,

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by our email notifications. At GuruFocus, we strive to maintain the highest standards of service, and it sounds like we fell short in this instance.

We are currently conducting a thorough review of our email unsubscribe functionality to ensure it works seamlessly for all our users. To assist us in resolving this issue promptly, could you please provide the specific email or the subject line of the email you're unable to unsubscribe from? This information will be invaluable in helping us to identify and rectify the problem.

Again, we apologize for the difficulties you've experienced, and we are committed to making this right. Please feel free to reach out to us directly at don@gurufocus.com with any further details or concerns.

Warm regards,

Don Li
VP of software development

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Borderline Spam

They make it incredibly difficult to cancel your free trial. Then once you're cancelled, you have to deal with the influx of spam bs emails they send out. Oh no big deal, just unsubscribe, right? No they make it damn near impossible to do that as well.

Do their services add value? Maybe. Do they do everything possible to take your money and keep you even if you don't want to? Absolutely.

Greasy company.

7 March 2024
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Reply from GuruFocus.com

hi Carter, we have been in business for 20 years now. Cancelling the membership is actually quite easy. You can call us, chat with us during the business hours, or you can open a support ticket any time which will be processed within 24 hours.

About email unsubscribe, we did find a bug in our system, which is now fixed. I apologize for that. I am sorry for the troubles you had. It should be working properly from now on.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Job well done

James did a great job of helping fix my spreadsheet that was full of errors. He was very knowledgeable and diagnosed the problem quickly.

26 February 2024
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Thank you!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I'm a financial writer for GuruFocus

I'm a financial writer for GuruFocus, and I really admire the platform, its staff, and the community they have built.

As an author, analyst, and investor, I am getting better and better as the days go by collaborating with the company.

The team seems wise and kind, and I'm grateful to be a part of their work.

I highly recommend the platform if you are an investor, analyst, journalist, or researcher. It is the most powerful investment data tool I know of.

Thank you, Charlie, Sydnee, James, and the rest of the team!

Keep doing great work.

Best,

Oliver Rodzianko

6 December 2023
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