GuruFocus
Thirty years of financials, a deep screener and 13F guru portfolios, sold by region.
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What it is
GuruFocus is a value-investing research site, founded in 2004 and run from Plano, Texas. Three things are sold together: long financial histories on a company page, the All-in-One Screener, and the 13F-derived portfolios of well-known investors that gave the site its name. The house style is Graham and Buffett — Shiller PE, Graham Number, owner earnings, Peter Lynch fair value — and the screener ships with pre-built screens named after those strategies.
The long history is the main argument: the 30-Y Financials tab is what people renew for, and the vendor's Data API material claims fundamentals back to 1978. Raw fundamentals come from Morningstar, intraday US quotes from QuoteMedia, estimates from Refinitiv and Morningstar; GuruFocus does the ratio and valuation maths on top.
Pricing
Annual, per region, three levels deep. Premium for the USA region is $549 a year, Premium Plus $1,398, Professional $2,448. Other regions are priced separately at the Premium level — Asia and Europe $499 a year, Canada, UK/Ireland, Oceania, Latin America, Africa and India/Pakistan $369 — with $100 off each region after the first. US plus Europe is $948, not $549.
The levels buy ownership depth and export headroom, not different fundamentals: 144 gurus at Premium against 8,000-plus institutions and 15,000-plus mutual funds above it, screener backtests over five years against back to 2006, 1,000-row downloads against 5,000, an Excel add-in capped at 2,000 queries against unlimited. Professional adds delisted stocks and an account manager. The 7-day trial comes round once every 24 months.
Data & coverage
Nine regions — US, Canada, Europe, UK/Ireland, Asia, India/Pakistan, Oceania, Africa and Latin America — each a separate purchase. The pricing page claims 100,000 stocks in 100 markets; the Excel add-in page says over 90,000 stocks, 8,000 institutions and 4,600 economic indicators. ETF, bond and delisted-stock screeners sit alongside the equity one. Fundamentals arrive about two business days after an SEC filing for US companies over $800 million, four below that and ten for non-US filers.
Integrations
An Excel add-in (Office 365 or Windows Office 2021+) exposes GURUF, GURUG, GURUE and
GURUI worksheet functions for financials, guru portfolios, economic indicators and industry
medians, with the screener inside Excel on Premium Plus. There is a Google Sheets add-on, CSV and
XLSX screener downloads, a per-stock PDF, and iOS and Android apps.
The Data API is a separate subscription — free at 100 requests a month, $200 a month for Builder, $2,000 for redistribution rights — though every membership carries a small allowance against it. An MCP server runs at the same API host on the same token; it answered a JSON-RPC probe on 13 September 2026.
Limitations
- Much of what you see is GuruFocus's own model, not a reported number. GF Value, GF Score and its five rank dimensions, the predictability rating and the model portfolios are all computed by the vendor. GF Value is a proprietary blend of historical multiples and expected growth with no published formula, and value screens and model portfolios are sold on top of it. Read the ratios; treat the verdicts as one house's opinion.
- The guru data is a quarterly regulatory filing, with everything that implies. Form 13F reports long US-listed equity positions only — no shorts, no bonds, no cash, no non-US listings — and is due 45 days after quarter end, so a holding can be five months stale before you read it. GuruFocus puts the usual publication lag at one to four months and shows the quarter end as the trade date when no exact date exists.
- Priced per region: a genuinely global screen means buying most of the nine.
- Fundamentals are Morningstar's, so there is no second opinion on a restatement here.
- No options analytics, no real-time scanning, no execution. This is a research desk.
- Annual billing, and subscriptions are final and non-refundable once the trial ends.
Alternatives
Stock Rover covers US and Canadian fundamentals with a comparable screener for a fraction of the money; Koyfin suits anyone who wants charts and estimates rather than guru ownership; Fiscal.ai gives you statements and modelling without a scoring layer on top. Nothing else in the catalogue reproduces the 13F ownership history at this depth.
Specs
- Interfaces
- API, MCP server, spreadsheet add-in
- Export
- CSV, Xlsx, PDF, API
- Asset classes
- Stocks, ETF, Mutual funds, Bonds, Indices
- Markets
- US, CA, UK, EU, Asia, AU, Latam, Global
- Platforms
- Web, Ios, Android
- AI features
- Recommendations
- Capabilities
- Charting, Screening, Backtesting, Portfolio tracking, Broker import, Alerts, News
- Pricing verified
- Capabilities verified
- Coverage verified
Also worth comparing
- Stock Unlock — Global fundamentals, 1-5 stock scores and a DCF whose assumptions you set yourself.
- sec-api.io — Every EDGAR filing since 1993 as JSON, plus a websocket push of new ones.
- Stock Analysis — Five years of financials and a working screener, free and without an account.
- Fiscal.ai — Filings, transcripts and 20-year financials, in a terminal or through an MCP server.
- SEC EDGAR — Every US filing since 1994, free and keyless — the limit is ten requests a second.
- Wisesheets — Financials, estimates and live prices as worksheet functions in Excel and Google Sheets.
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FAQ
How much does GuruFocus cost?
Premium is $549 a year for the USA region, Premium Plus $1,398 and Professional $2,448. Regions are bought separately — Asia and Europe are $499 a year each at Premium and Canada, UK/Ireland, Oceania, Latin America, Africa and India/Pakistan $369 each, with $100 off every region after the first. The pricing page quotes annual terms only and the subscription auto-renews annually; a monthly option exists on request but the site does not publish its rate.
What can you see on GuruFocus without paying?
More than most paywalled research sites. A logged-out visitor gets the current ratio panel on a stock page — PE, Shiller PE, Graham Number, Price-to-GF-Value, the DCF-based ratios — plus the GF Score and roughly the last four fiscal years and five quarters of financials. Everything older renders as "Subscribe to unlock this section", the statement breakdowns say "Not Enough Data", and the screener returns a match count and per-row prices and GF Scores with the ticker and company columns replaced by a subscribe link.
What is the "guru" data actually made of?
Regulatory filings, not a feed from the managers. Quarterly holdings come from Form 13F, which institutional managers over $100 million file up to 45 days after quarter end, supplemented by Schedule 13D/G and N-PORT. GuruFocus says the usual lag between a trade and its publication is one to four months, and that when no exact date exists it shows the quarter end.
Is GF Value a fair value or GuruFocus's own opinion?
It is GuruFocus's own model. GF Value is a proprietary blend of a company's historical valuation multiples, its fundamentals and expected growth, and the vendor describes it as a starting point rather than a substitute for analysis. The same applies to GF Score, the five rank dimensions and the model portfolios — they are computed output, not reported figures.