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Techdamentals vs Seeking Alpha Quant Ratings

A letter grade from a factor model, or a fair value from four named methods with the arithmetic shown. Both answer "is it cheap?". Only one of them can be checked by the person reading it.

Who each one is for

Seeking Alpha's Quant Ratings grade every covered stock on a five-step scale from Strong Sell to Strong Buy, built from five factors (valuation, growth, profitability, momentum and earnings revisions), each graded A+ to F against the stock's sector. They sit inside a much bigger product: thousands of contributor articles, earnings call transcripts, news, a portfolio tracker and coverage of stocks, ETFs and funds worldwide. Premium is the tier most people compare.

Techdamentals produces no grade and no rating. It gives a fair value, a range around it, the verdict that follows from where today's price sits, and the four methods that produced it, each with its own figure. The formulas are on the methodology page. It covers US-listed companies and refuses funds and ETFs.

Side by side

What you're comparing	Seeking Alpha Quant Ratings	Techdamentals
The answer	A rating on a five-step scale, plus a letter grade per factor	A verdict (undervalued, fair value, overvalued) with a fair value and a range
How it's made	A proprietary quant model over the five factors; the weighting isn't published	Four named methods (cash flow over 20 years, cash flow over 10 years, profit per share over 10 years, sales growth) with the formulas and the blend weights published
Opinions	Thousands of contributor articles, which often disagree with each other and with the rating	None. Impersonal estimates, the same for every user, with no one arguing a side
Can you check it?	The grades, not the model behind them	Every input with its source and date, the growth rate assumed, the discount rate, and the rate at which the verdict would flip
Checking the data	One data provider	The price checked against a second, independent source; sales checked two ways; a failed check is marked unverified
Reading the chart	Charts, and technical-analysis articles from contributors	ReadR reads a chart screenshot for you in plain English: direction, levels, patterns, volume
Coverage	Global, including ETFs and funds	US-listed companies. Funds and ETFs are refused
Price, checked 30 Sep 2026	Basic is free with limited access. Premium $4.95 for the first month, then $299 a year. PRO $2,400 a year	7-day trial, no card (3 complete analyses, 3 chart reads). Pro $10 a month, which is $120 a year, cancel anytime

Where Seeking Alpha is better

Breadth, and the crowd. Seeking Alpha covers the world, including ETFs and funds, which Techdamentals doesn't touch. It has earnings call transcripts, news and a portfolio tracker in the same place. The Quant Ratings publish a track record you can go and read. And the articles, for all their disagreement, give you a dozen informed perspectives on a company that Techdamentals gives you exactly one impersonal view of. If you want the debate, that is where it lives.

Where Techdamentals is different

No rating. A grade is something you act on; a fair value is something you check. Techdamentals never tells you what to do with the number, and the words that would make it a recommendation don't appear in a result.
A number you can argue with. Four methods, each on the page, the weights stated, the growth it assumed and the rate at which the verdict flips. When the model is published, you can disagree with a specific step of it.
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.
Plain English throughout. The whole analysis is written for someone new, with each term explained where it appears. The Learn page covers every section.
$120 a year against $299, and the trial shows the complete report with nothing locked.

The price, and the date

The Seeking Alpha prices above were read from seekingalpha.com/subscriptions on 30 September 2026 and will change; that page has today's, including any introductory offer. Techdamentals is $10 a month for Pro, covering both apps, cancel anytime, the same price every day.

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