Buyer's guide

Best Stock Screeners

Ranked on screening ability alone, which is why we are not first.

This list ranks tools purely on how well they screen. Stock Simplifier is our product and it is not a screener, so it does not top this list. Finviz does, because for finding candidates fast it is genuinely the best of these.

How we ranked these

The ranking

1

Finviz

Best overall screener

Pricing: Free, with a paid Elite tier

Fast, capable and unusually generous on the free tier, with the clearest market heat map anywhere. For turning thousands of stocks into a shortlist in seconds, nothing here beats it.

2

Stock Rover

Best for depth

Pricing: Free, then $80, $180 or $280/yr

Around 700 fundamental metrics with strong portfolio analytics attached. If your screens are sophisticated, this is where they belong.

3

TIKR

Best for global screening

Pricing: Free tier, around $180/yr Plus, around $600/yr Pro

Screening across 100,000 stocks worldwide, which matters if you invest outside the US.

4

Koyfin

Best professional-style screening

Pricing: Free tier, then $39/mo Plus or $79/mo Premium

A global screener with thousands of criteria inside Bloomberg-style dashboards, though the free tier now caps you at two saved screens.

5

Barchart

Best multi-asset screening

Pricing: Free tier, then $29.95/mo or $199.95/yr Premier

Screening across stocks, futures, options and forex, with a substantial free tier.

6

Simply Wall St

Best visual screening

Pricing: $120/yr

Screen and then understand what you found at a glance, across 90 markets.

7

Stock Simplifier

Best for what comes after

Pricing: Free plan, no card. Paid from $19.99/mo or $199/yr

Not a screener. It answers the question a screener leaves you with: is this shortlisted company actually worth owning? Free plan, no card.

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Side by side

#ToolPriceBest for
1FinvizFree, with a paid Elite tierBest overall screener
2Stock RoverFree, then $80, $180 or $280/yrBest for depth
3TIKRFree tier, around $180/yr Plus, around $600/yr ProBest for global screening
4KoyfinFree tier, then $39/mo Plus or $79/mo PremiumBest professional-style screening
5BarchartFree tier, then $29.95/mo or $199.95/yr PremierBest multi-asset screening
6Simply Wall St$120/yrBest visual screening
7Stock SimplifierFree plan, no card. Paid from $19.99/mo or $199/yrBest for what comes after

Frequently asked questions

Finviz. Its free tier is fast, capable and better than several paid products. Stock Rover and TIKR also have real free screening with different strengths.
Finviz for speed and everyday use, Stock Rover if you need around 700 metrics and portfolio analytics, TIKR if you screen internationally.
No. A screener finds companies matching criteria you chose. Whether those criteria identify good businesses, and whether a given result actually is one, are separate questions it cannot answer.
Evaluate the shortlist: what the business does, whether its advantage is durable, who runs it and what it is worth. That gap between a list of tickers and a decision is where most screening workflows stall.
No, and we have ranked it last here for that reason. It has a Discover feature for browsing, but its purpose is analysing a company you have already found.

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