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Techdamentals vs GuruFocus

A research terminal with thirty years of statements against a tool that answers one question about one company in plain English. Different jobs, and a fivefold difference in price.

Who each one is for

GuruFocus, founded in Texas in 2004, is a research terminal for serious value investors: thirty years of financial statements per company, the trades of well-known investors taken from their 13F filings, insider and politician trades, screeners that can be backtested to 2006, DCF and WACC calculators you fill in yourself, its own GF Score, an Excel add-in and a data API. Fundamentals come from FactSet.

Techdamentals answers one question about one company at a time: what is it worth, why, and what does the chart say? It runs four valuation methods for you, blends them, checks the inputs against a second source, and writes the whole thing for someone who has never valued a company before.

Side by side

What you're comparing	GuruFocus	Techdamentals
Built for	Deep research: statements, filings, famous investors' trades, screens, calculators	One clear answer per company: the fair value, the four methods behind it, and the chart read alongside
Financial history	Thirty years of statements	Four to five years, quarterly and annual, drawn as charts (cash flow, sales, profit, margins, share count, debt against cash)
The fair value	GF Value, its own proprietary line, plus DCF calculators where you supply the assumptions	Four methods run for you (cash flow over 20 years, cash flow over 10 years, profit per share over 10 years, sales growth), each shown, blended, with the assumptions on the page
Famous investors' trades	Yes, from 13F filings. A core feature	No
Screener	An all-in-one screener with backtesting	The Fair Value Screener over the companies already valued; the top ten is free
Plain English	Written for people who already know the vocabulary	Every term explained where it's used; the whole analysis written for someone new
Checking the data	FactSet data, one provider	The price checked against a second, independent source; sales checked two ways; a failed check is marked unverified on the page
Reading the chart	Interactive charts you read yourself	ReadR reads a chart screenshot for you: direction, levels, patterns, volume
Price, checked 30 Sep 2026	Premium $549 a year (USA). Plus $1,398. Pro $2,448. 7-day trial, once every 24 months	7-day trial, no card (3 complete analyses, 3 chart reads). Pro $10 a month, which is $120 a year, cancel anytime

Where GuruFocus is better

Depth, and everything that comes with it. Thirty years of statements against about five. The trades of well-known investors, insiders and politicians, which Techdamentals doesn't track at all. Screens you can backtest twenty years. An Excel add-in and an API. If research is your hobby or your job, GuruFocus is in a different league, and its price reflects that. Techdamentals is not trying to be a terminal.

Where Techdamentals is different

The answer first, the reasoning under it. A verdict, then why, then the numbers. GuruFocus gives you the statements and calculators and leaves the valuing to you.
Four methods you can see, not one line you can't. Each method's figure is on the page with the growth it assumed and a note when it couldn't run, so you can see where the methods disagree.
The honesty layer. Two-source price check, sales reconciled two ways, and an unverified label when something fails. The founding rule: a confident number built on bad data is worse than no number.
Both halves of the analysis. The chart read and the valuation in one account, with a line that says whether they agree.
$120 a year against $549. And the trial shows the complete report with nothing locked.

The price, and the date

The GuruFocus prices above were read from gurufocus.com/pricing on 30 September 2026 for the USA region and will change; that page has today's. Techdamentals is $10 a month for Pro, covering both apps, cancel anytime, the same price every day.

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