Two tools, explained from scratch. No finance background needed — every term is
defined the first time it appears.
Read this bit first. Both tools are educational. They never tell you to buy or
sell anything, and they can't — they don't know you, your money, or your situation. They estimate
and explain. What you do next is your decision.
The other thing worth knowing up front: when the underlying data
doesn't add up, these tools say so and withhold the number rather than guessing. A blank
where you expected a figure is the tool working, not failing.
“Is this company worth what it costs?” You type a ticker; it estimates the company's
underlying worth and compares that to today's price.
ReadR
“What is this chart telling me?” You upload a screenshot of a price chart; it reads the chart
back to you in plain English.
They answer different questions about the same stock. The first is about the business;
the second is about the price action. Using both on one company is the point of the name.
Part one
IV Calculator
“IV” stands for intrinsic value — an estimate of what a company is actually worth, based
on the money it generates rather than what people are currently paying for it.
Running your first analysis
Open the calculator. You'll see one box: Ticker or company name — e.g. NVDA.
Type a ticker (NVDA) or a company name (Nvidia).
Suggestions appear as you type.
Press Enter, or click Value it →.
Wait a few seconds while it fetches financial data and runs four separate valuation methods.
That's the whole input. Everything else on the page is the answer.
What you get back
The page is built answer-first: the conclusion at the top, the evidence underneath.
The first three blocks answer the question. Everything below the reveal lets you check
the working, and stays folded away until you ask for it.
Reading the verdict
The top block gives you four things: today's price, a coloured verdict, how far the
price sits from the estimate, and the fair-value range.
Undervalued
The price is below our estimated range.
Fair value
The price is inside the range.
Overvalued
The price is above the range.
Underneath the price you'll see which price the verdict is based on — for example
At close Aug 5, 1:00 PM PDT — and, outside market hours, the after-hours
price marked “not used in the valuation”. That's deliberate: after-hours trading is thin and
unrepresentative, so we show it but never value on it.
The bar shows the estimate; the vertical marker shows where the price actually sits.
The spread of the dots tells you how much to trust it.
“Undervalued” does not mean “buy”. A cheap stock is often cheap
for a reason. That's exactly why the next section exists.
Why this verdict
This is the section to read if you read only one. It connects the conclusion to the evidence in
four short beats:
The math
The fair-value range versus today's price, stated in words.
What it rests on
Which single fundamental the verdict mostly depends on — usually the
cash the business generates — and what growth rate we assumed for it.
Is cheap good?
Whether the business earns more on its money than that money costs. If
it doesn't, a low price may be the market's judgment rather than a bargain.
What would flip it
The growth rate at which the verdict would disappear. This is us
telling you what would have to be true for the tool to be wrong.
The last two are Pro. Free accounts see the first two, plus a note about what's behind them.
The deeper sections
Click See the full breakdown to unfold everything below. You never need
these to get an answer — they're for checking our work.
Input Data
Every raw figure we used, with its source and the date we fetched it.
Financials
Valuation multiples, returns and quality measures, plus up to ten charts of
history — cash flow, revenue, margins, debt versus cash. Toggle quarterly or annual.
Data Integrity Checks
Our own audit of the source data, including a price cross-check
against an independent provider. If something fails here, the verdict is flagged.
Adjust Inputs & Recompute
Pro. Disagree with a number? Change it and re-run.
The result gets labelled “user-adjusted”.
Valuation Methods
The four methods individually, each with what it does and which kind
of company it suits.
Valuation Consensus
How the methods were weighted into the single headline figure,
alongside what Wall Street analysts think — not because they're right, but so you can see when we
disagree with them.
ReadR reads price charts. You give it a screenshot; it tells you what's on it — the direction,
the levels that matter, and the patterns — in language you don't need training to follow.
The whole flow. The only decision you make is which chart to give it.
Getting a chart in — four ways
Drag and drop an image onto the drop zone.
Paste with Ctrl+V — screenshot straight from your broker and
paste it in. A ✓ Chart pasted toast confirms it.
Click⬆ Upload Chart to pick a file.
Use your camera — on a phone, 📷 Or point your camera at a chart
lets you photograph a chart on another screen. Phones only; it's hidden on desktop.
Then press Analyze Chart. To start over, use
🔄 Reset / New Chart.
Getting a better read. ReadR can only see what's in the picture.
Include the volume pane if you want volume analysis, make sure the timeframe label and price axis
are visible, and capture at a readable size. It will tell you honestly what the screenshot didn't
let it check.
Reading a chart result
Overall Bias
Bullish, bearish or neutral — the one-word summary.
Key Levels
The prices that matter: support (where buyers have stepped in), resistance
(where sellers have), and any moving averages or VWAP drawn on the chart. These are also drawn
back onto your image as labelled lines.
Why this bias
The reasoning. Most usefully, a tally: how many of the signals on
the chart point the same way as the bias, and how many point the other way. A bias backed by one
signal and one backed by six look identical everywhere else.
Then, behind See the full breakdown: multi-timeframe context, market
structure, indicators, what to watch for next, candlestick patterns, volume, price-volume signals,
smart money concepts, and a plain-English session summary.
What ReadR will not do. It never gives entry or exit points,
never frames time-of-day setups, and never invents an indicator that isn't drawn on your chart. It
describes what's visible. Deciding what that means for you is your job.
Both tools
Things that work the same way
Listen instead of reading
Every analysis reads itself aloud. A small player appears at the bottom with play, pause, restart
and a progress bar. Pick a voice from the dropdown — on desktop, Chrome offers the most natural
ones. On a computer you can also press Space to play or pause,
R to restart, and N to start a new analysis.
The narration follows what's on screen: collapsed, it reads the summary; expanded, it reads the
detail too.
Jumping around a long result
On a wide screen a small “On this page” menu appears on the left, listing the visible
sections and highlighting where you are as you scroll. Click any entry to jump. Its last item
doubles as the control that unfolds the rest of the page.
Saving and being told later Pro
On an IV result, the ☆ Watchlist button saves the company along with the
fair value we calculated. After that we watch the price for you and email when it crosses into a
cheaper zone, or hits a target price you set. You can also get phone notifications by installing the
app to your home screen.
Sharing a verdict with someone who has no account
Once a company has been analysed and passed our data checks, it gets a public page at
techdamentals.com/v/TICKER — for example
techdamentals.com/v/NVDA. Anyone can open it without signing up.
That page shows the live price, the verdict, the fair-value range with a dot for each method,
and how far price sits from the middle of the range. The rest — the methods themselves, the
takeaways, the projections, the input data and the reverse valuation — stays locked, though the
section headings are listed so a visitor can see what an account adds.
Two details worth knowing. The price is live every time the page loads, and the verdict
is measured against that live price — so the page never shows yesterday's answer next to today's
price. The range carries the date it was calculated, because it comes from reported
financials that only change every few months.
Pages only exist for companies someone has actually run. If a company hasn't been analysed, or
its data failed our checks, the page says so plainly instead of showing a number we don't stand
behind. You can see every published one at techdamentals.com/v.
If something looks wrong
“Unverified”, or a missing percentage
Our checks found something that doesn't reconcile. The number is shown for transparency but
shouldn't be leaned on. Open Data Integrity Checks to see exactly which check failed.
A method says N/A
That method needs data this company doesn't have, so it was skipped rather than guessed. Its
share of the weighting goes to the others.
It won't value a fund or ETF
Correct, and deliberate. These methods value one operating company. A basket of five hundred
companies isn't one, so we decline instead of producing a meaningless number.
A newly listed company is “provisional”
There isn't enough reported history yet for the models to lean on. Treat it as a rough sketch.
The price looks stale
Check the timestamp under the price — it says exactly which price the verdict uses. Outside
market hours that will be the closing price, which is intended.
“Volume not visible in this chart image”
ReadR couldn't see a volume pane in your screenshot. Include it and re-upload for the
volume-based sections.
Free and Pro
A free account gives you one valuation a day and three chart reads in total, with the headline
answer and the primary method. There is no time limit on it. Pro unlocks unlimited analyses, all four methods side by side,
the full reasoning, the history charts, adjustable assumptions, the watchlist and price alerts.
Everything about how the numbers are produced is public either way — the
methodology page spells out every formula.