What to use instead of Macrotrends

The product

Macrotrends is a free research site run by Macrotrends LLC, whose terms put governing law and the courts in Seattle, Washington. Its format is one metric per page. A company's revenue, gross margin, EPS, shares outstanding or P/E each gets its own URL, with a long chart, an annual and quarterly table and a paragraph of text summing up the latest figures. Around the stocks sit charts of market indexes, precious metals, commodities, interest rates, exchange rates and economic series. The Internet Archive's capture of the home page on 17 September 2026 lists a stock screener with over 50 criteria, "50+ years of historical stock price and dividend data", "10 years of quarterly stock fundamental data", and "100+ years" of inflation-adjusted index, precious metals and economic data.

The stock fundamentals come from Zacks Investment Research, according to the footer of every stock page. In the Internet Archive's capture of 22 August 2026, Apple's revenue page carried annual figures from 2011 and quarterly ones from the September 2011 quarter. In the capture of 5 March 2026, Apple's price history page charted daily prices since 1980, "adjusted for splits and dividends".

What changed. Macrotrends started charging in autumn 2025, and we can only date it from the Internet Archive. On 9 October 2026 every page we requested, including the terms, answered with a browser check, so this account rests on captures of Macrotrends' own pages.

• Between 3 September and 1 October 2025, the terms of service gained clauses on subscriptions, free trials, renewals and refunds. A revision dated 13 November 2025 moved payments to Stripe and states, "We do not offer monthly billing."
• By 15 December 2025 the stock pages carried a "Subscribe Now" button that the capture of 12 November did not.
• By August 2026 the stock pages showed an "Unlock Macrotrends Premium" panel offering "40 years of data", "faster, ad-free pages", "unlimited data exports" and full-width charts, with a seven-day free trial that requires a card. The site's own paywall configuration set a limit of ten free pages in every capture from February to September 2026, and from April it offered a one-day pass for 4.99 dollars.
• Plans are Ad-Free and Premium. For a US visitor on 24 August 2026 the configuration listed 96 and 192 dollars a year; other captures show prices in euros and Canadian dollars, so the figure depends on where you are. We did not see a live checkout.

The email registration prompt, "Register to Continue Using Macrotrends", is older: it is already in the revenue page captured on 3 September 2025. What is new is the ceiling on free pages, and that the longer history and the data exports are what Premium sells.

What to use instead

Macrotrends does three jobs on one domain. Split them, because nothing in this catalogue does all three.

A company's numbers over a long run. ROIC.ai is the nearest copy of the format. Its free terminal at a quote URL needs no account and lays out fifteen years of statements and ratios as tables with charts, with a global screener beside it. Stock Analysis gives five fiscal years of statements plus trailing twelve months, annual and quarterly, without an account. Its market-cap page charts Apple back to 1998, and Pro at 79 dollars a year opens 10 to 40 years of financials and one download a day. TIKR runs on S&P Capital IQ financials: five years and US stocks only on the free tier, ten years and global coverage on Plus at 17.95 a month billed annually, and 30 years on Ultimate. Koyfin against TIKR separates the two terminals.

The chart itself. If what you used was a long line of one metric next to another, Koyfin is the charting tool here. It plots fundamentals, prices and macro series against each other across global equities, licensing FRED and Trading Economics for the macro. The free plan holds two years of financials; Plus at 39 a month billed annually holds ten.

The macro pages. Macrotrends' interest-rate, inflation and unemployment charts are views of public series. FRED holds those series directly, more than 851,000 of them, free with a key. Pulling an economic data series covers how.

Numbers in a spreadsheet or a script. Copying Macrotrends tables into a spreadsheet is what Premium's exports now sell, and scraping them breaks the terms. Financial Modeling Prep serves statements and ratios over a documented API, five years on the free key and 30-plus on Premium at 59 dollars a month billed annually. SEC EDGAR serves the as-filed XBRL facts with no key at all, and every other source here is a reprocessing of them. Fundamentals into a spreadsheet and market cap and P/E as a history walk through both routes.

What you give up

The one-metric URL. Macrotrends' best idea is a page per company per metric that answers one question — how has this company's revenue moved over fifteen years — without a login and in one screen. ROIC.ai comes closest. Everything else is a statement table, a terminal or an API you assemble the answer from.

Long history at no cost. Even metered, Macrotrends' free pages carry about fifteen years of annual figures. On the picks' free tiers, Stock Analysis and TIKR stop at five years, Koyfin at two and Financial Modeling Prep's free key at five. Only ROIC.ai's terminal matches it without payment. EDGAR's XBRL facts reach back as far as a company has filed them, but as filed rather than standardised.

Prices, fundamentals and macro under one search box. Macrotrends puts a century of precious metals prices, inflation-adjusted index charts and Apple's margins on one domain. Splitting that across Koyfin, FRED and a fundamentals site is more capable but no longer one bookmark.

Migration notes

Expect different numbers for the same line. Macrotrends' fundamentals come from Zacks; TIKR and Koyfin license S&P Capital IQ, Stock Analysis mixes suppliers, and EDGAR is as filed. Revenue usually matches; EBITDA, free cash flow, share counts and anything "adjusted" often will not. Where research terminals get their data names the suppliers, and why two screeners disagree explains the definitions.

Check how a price history is adjusted. Macrotrends says its price history is adjusted for splits and dividends, so a 1980 Apple price on it is not the price anyone paid. Tools differ on whether they adjust for dividends at all — why adjusted close differs has the arithmetic — so line up one known date before you compare a long chart.

Retire the scraper. If a script read Macrotrends pages, it now runs into the paywall, the browser check and terms that prohibit automated access. Moving it to an API is less work than keeping it alive.