# Seeking Alpha Reviews **Vendor:** Seeking Alpha **Category:** [Investment Portfolio Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/investment-portfolio-management) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 31 ## About Seeking Alpha Seeking Alpha is an industry leader in mining the wisdom of the crowds for insights on every topic of interest to investors. It provides analysis, news, and data to stock market investors, via our website and mobile apps. Seeking Alpha is a fun, dynamic, family-like environment, full of intelligent, innovative, and entrepreneurial-minded individuals. ## Seeking Alpha Reviews ### 1. Supernova Energy Seeking Alpha **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher B. | Chief Executive Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** We like the accurate key market data and investing groups. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** We are having difficulty with implementing Seeking Alpha across our whole enterprise. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seeking Alpha is solving key risk decisions and structuring data. ### 2. To many entries per day . Impossible to follow **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Sometimes reasonable information. Generally confusing **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Too many daily entries . I could not follow . Many entries not interesting at all !! Too much pushing to accept other money paying services ; I definitively don't like it ' Too pushy ! **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** SA globally confused me ; I never used one of the numereous tip,. SA does not recognize that + 70 % of the Nasdaq moves are related to +/- 7 top companies !! ### 3. Bad customer service **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug A. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Nothing. Subscribed and was not good. Asked to be refunded within the trial period. Was charged and took way too much time and hassle to get money back. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Signed up for the trial and cancelled within a week. Still got charged $250. Called back to ask what was going on. Was told i never cancelled. Argued for 30 minutes and it was like talking to a rock. never listened to a word I said. Then I called my credit card company to dispute the charge and they take it off. Then a few weeks later I find SA has charged me again. This is a racket. First i find their stock service crappy and then try to get out and they keep charging your card. my advice is to run from this company as far as you can. The phone operaters are dishonest and they are a ripoff. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** Stay as far away as possible **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can't get them to refund my money for a service i cancelled within 10 days of signing up. They offered a free trial period of 30 days with refund but once they got my money I cancelled 10 days later and they refuse to refund my money. Seriously fraudulent business. I mean come on, do they figure in the introductory theft on their bottom line? ### 4. Seeking Alpha is NOT worth it to me **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** SA has a lot of information, much of which is available (for FREE) to anyone who has a brokerage account. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Their "TOP STOCKS" was worth the subscription fee in 2021, but not any longer. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** In 2021, I could easily keep track of their rankings of "TOP STOCKS", but not now. ### 5. Investing made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** A E. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Really easy to use and good communication. It shows after market prices, P/E ratios, Divs, also has articles contributed by community members that are very helpful. the app also shows news and market updates if you have a certain stock you follow, will show you news impacting this stock as well as similar stocks **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Only 5 articles per months to read and review, requires you to subscribe to review more than the 5 articles, the app sometimes logs you out and you have to log in again so you need to keep re-entering your password **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Investing and tracking investment performance and look for new ideas for investment ### 6. Seeking Alpha Providing Useful Insights **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sol R. | A, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** The platform provides the data I need in a clear and concise manner. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** As an individual using the platform, I can't say there is anything I dislike. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Broadening my industry knowledge with quality insights. ### 7. It was a euphoric and fulfilling experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** I like that they are so helpful in fulfilling all my wishes and appreciate how congenial they are. All their tools are useful and their competitors have nothing on them. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** I dislike how I cannot find any inconveniences with this product. Everything works properly, the only way it can be better is giving it for free. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** My bank account has benefitted from my analytical application. ### 8. Great app! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** The Author ratings give me visibility on how well each contributor performs. I love the comparison tolls and recently updated screening capabilities. I also find valuable information in the comments. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Surprisingly nothing! I found everything I was looking for quite easily. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Quant ratings are super helpful in helping me determine how any stock is performing in relation to its sector or industry. ### 9. Actionable Advice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geoffrey "Jeff" C. | Part-time Associate and Adjunct Professor, HPAM, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Seeking Alpha premium service of Conservative Income Portfolio provides me with actionable advice for a significant income stream. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** There is nothing to dislike at this point. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Income stream and Conservative Income Portfolio gets me there. ### 10. High potential product with a long way to go **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunny S. | Product Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** For me, Seeking Alpha is a platform to review, evaluate and contribute investment ideas to a community of stock market investors. I like that Seeking Alpha categorizes the different opportunities (i.e. what's trending, IPOs, ideas), has an active community of folks willing to discuss the pros/cons of each idea and that there are easy ways to contribute your own perspective (and therefore being part of the broader community). **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** I dislike that the platform doesn't meet me where I am at in the investment journey. When I am considering different investment ideas, it helps to understand the broad context (industry dynamics, competitive factors, etc.), hear high quality debates and then have a clear way to take action. Right now, I find myself clicking around through the site to find ideas. From there, I am not sure if I can trust the folks that are contributing the ideas and even discussing from there. While the openness of the platform is definitely a big pro - the trust factor is still a question mark for me which leads me to hesitate before pulling the trigger on a given investment idea. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem is that I don't have time to actively bring investment ideas to the table & quickly evaluate them. Despite any cons, Seeking Alpha does bring ideas to the table and gives me enough information to chew on so that I can make a decision. I have made 5+ investments over the past year through the ideas I found on the platform - I do not believe I would've been led on to these ideas without the product. The other problem is that it's hard to determine the financial sentiment of a company among retail investors. This is especially useful when we're doing competitive analyses for new products our company is evaluating. Helps us understand what we might be getting into and what types of questions come up among investors. ### 11. Phenomenal Service and Information **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Their UI is so easy to use that i never had any issues navigating my way through everything i needed **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** I love everything about Seeking alpha... nothing to complain about. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making the correct investing choices ### 12. good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Capital Markets | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Their customer service is very good, friendly and approachable, and especially Frank, he is a champ! **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Nothing, they are friendly and informative.. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helped me to know the most updated trents ### 13. whenever I look for advice on the market, I go to Seeking alpha **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Excellent analysis, excellent reporting. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** the plans are pretty expansive, it would be great if there a freemium product **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** stock are labeled, and that's super helpful. ### 14. Superb **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** User interface and User experience both amazing **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** The lack of transparency and accountability **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** Great platform **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great staff ### 15. Seeking Alpha offers exponentially more than you will have time to read. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** With a wide range of topics, there is almost nothing in the investment world that isn't discussed by the contributing analysts. Each offers their own perspective on the condition and direction of the market. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Having signed up for Seeking Alpha, you will be bombarded by a continuous stream of offers to subscribe to every flavor of investing newsletter under the sun and there seems to be no way to restrict the onslaught of daily emails. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** If all you want is access to a ton of information and insights from people in the investments world, then Seeking Alpha is a great product. Be prepared to spend a lot of time sifting through articles to get what you want. If you are looking for direction and don't want to have to spend hours a day on research, then there are many better ways to go about getting it. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** For every opinion offered on Seeking Alpha, there are two other contradicting opinions as well. Since there is no single direction being offered, a subscriber must spend a lot of time reading through a lot of material to gain a broad perspective. From there, the reader needs to make their own decisions on how they want to proceed. For me, the greatest benefit is the diversity of opinion and varied insights. It has given me some ideas to pursue and some potential investments to investigate further. ### 16. Current information on assets you hold **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** brian d. | Accounts Payable Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** I like that they are able to update me on a daily basis on what is going on in the world with the companies I own. It is helpful for me to get email notifications when something happens with a stock that I am looking to purchase and if anything substantial happens with that company. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** The thing that I do not like about Seeking Alpha is that fact that some of the information may be relevant to the company but it is not very effective for example it may be in the business sector, but it does not really affect that company. If there was a way to filter news that impacts the companies I own it would be a much better system to use for analysis. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems I am solving with Seeking Alpha are information on the company and confirming it with other sources to feel more comfortable with my investment that I am considering making in the future. It may give me some insight as to what is happening in the company that may deter me from actually submitting my capital to that company. ### 17. Seeking Alpha investor review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Seeking Alpha offers unparalleled analysis of micro and marco market trends. I personally find the comments written by other users to be of the most value. Other users leave intelligent and well-informed opinions that help guide my thought processes. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** The only downside of using Seeking Alpha is ability of some highly active users to troll authors who offer opinions that meet their disapproval. I enjoy seeing divergent opinions, but moderators could do more to keep the playing field fair. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** I recommend remembering that Seeking Alpha analysis is subjective. You must make your own decisions, but collecting divergent opinions from Seeking Alpha can be very useful. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Seeking Alpha to inform my investment decisions for both short and long term decisions, ### 18. Indispensable! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** the ease at which you can navigate this site. very easy to understand and tremendous information. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** limited free information, with premium, you get real time news, trading info, etc. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** great access (with premium) to live features...news, trading ideas, etc ### 19. Great for investing ideas, both good and crazy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas Y. | Senior Economist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Seeking Alpha are the crazy ideas some analysts promote. Some are purely stupid, but some really are thoughtful and worth the read. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Notifications from Seeking Alpha are sometimes too much. Also, there are lots of writers, and sometimes they're ideas aren't worth the time. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** Seeking Alpha readers should also read Stock Twits, Zero Hedge, and a host of other investing apps. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seeking Alpha is used for investment ideas. The product generally accomplishes this, although not perfectly. ### 20. Seeking Alpha **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Investment Research is made available to individual investors. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Research does not fit my investing strategies. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access to a different view of investment research ### 21. Amazing and fun tool for innovative ideas. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** joseph m. | Customer service, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** It is a great platform that helps you in giving your ideas for multiple occupations which others can use for themselves for the promotion. Thus is a great innovative and creative tool where you can share your genius ideas around the world. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** I like this tool a lot. Sometimes the notifications get a bit annoying but still this is a great software for use. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** This software is crazy in usage but its so fun at the same time. Gives you amazing and superb ideas fro your investment. the features are amazing so does the installment. Very useful for entrepreneurs. I recommend it to everyone. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool id very assisting specially in the investment ideas. It tells you about the latest requirements and today's latest analysis and reports about profits and loses which gives you an insight. Thus you can use it and apply it in you work and business as well. ### 22. Many voices, good ideas **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin S. | Author, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Writers on Seeking Alpha provide a wide range of perspectives and interpretations of the investment world. Almost no matter how niche your interest is, you’ll find timely, relevant information here. The app also does a good job of allowing the user to set up alerts on key stocks and indicators. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Some of the writers on Seeking Alpha are really just there to publish teaser stories. They intend to attract people to their paid websites elsewhere. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** Go thru the process of setting up desired alerts. Also, use the feature that allows multiple portfolios, it helps! **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** The tool provides excellent access to smart points of view on investment ideas. I use it to gather perspectives on investment options. ### 23. Seeking Alpha Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Seeking Alpha is a concentrated and reliable source for in-depth news on stocks and current marketplace occurrences. Their analysis goes beyond sensationalist reporting and is rigorous in nature, but there is still the option for the user to receive their news in digestible portions, such as the Wall Street Breakfast podcast. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** The UI / UX of Seeking Alpha can be a little difficult to navigate at times - the site contains a lot of information, but finding the information that pertains to what you're interested in can take some time. Additionally, the layout appears a bit awkward on desktop, with a lot of white space and disjointed formatting. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seeking Alpha has helped immensely with introducing students to the world of financial investing, particularly with emphasizing researching stocks and reading analysis. Although it can be a difficult concept to grasp at first, having all the relevant news and trends available in one platform helps students become more comfortable with linking what is happening in the world as a whole to the movements in the markets. ### 24. Long-Time User **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Seeking Alpha has been my go-to site for stock market information for close to 10 years now. I'm able to keep track of stocks I'm watching and get real time alerts based on my chosen criteria. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** The data feeds are not real time for most instruments. This is common for most sites like this, but wish that would change. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Seeking Alpha I'm able to keep track of my many stocks and ETFs that I follow in one a convenient dashboard. ### 25. Valuable and diversified insight **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** The coverage and the multi-perspective view. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** You can find number of unfiltered reports and ideas. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** Use it as an additional source of research, it is useful! **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I want to get more information and know other managers ideas I read the reports there. ### 26. Great for portfolio tracking **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Easy to set up key stocks and follow aanalysis. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Could use better sub industry and industry overviews. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to keep a pulse of public companies relevant to my day to day. Very good quick insight on financial performance of followed companies. ### 27. I like SeekingAlpha **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** I like the diverse opinions on the site about a variety of stocks **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Sometimes I find it hard to widdle down the interesting articles from the one sided ones **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** We use the product to get a perspective on investments. I find it helpful to see what others think, especially when they disagree with me. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find it a good source to hear a variety of opinions ### 28. Top stock market analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Seeking Alpha makes trading stocks easy. I’ve worked in investment banking my entire career, and yet seeking alpha is the best tool for personal research outside and inside the workplace. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** The premium content always seems to interest me but not consistently enough to pay for it. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seeking alpha has allowed me to create strong analysis in determining my portfolio makeup ### 29. So easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** I absolutely love the podcast transcripts and the financial data was digestible. I also really appreciated their market insights. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Honestly i didn’t love the user interface. Wasn’t the most well designed site or easy to navigate. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was looking for quick financial data and occasional market insights for business development. ### 30. Helpful resource for a wide variety of information **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** Seeking Alpha is easy to use and provides expert information on a variety of information. **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Sometime the articles can be too technical. It would be helpful if there was content geared to people with less knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering Seeking Alpha:** I recommend Seeking Alpha. **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seeking Alpha helps me fill gaps of knowledge and learn exponentially. ### 31. Lots of insightful articles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Seeking Alpha?** It provides a lot of insightful articles **What do you dislike about Seeking Alpha?** Sometimes it is difficult to search specific articles **What problems is Seeking Alpha solving and how is that benefiting you?** Investment and planning decisions ## Seeking Alpha Discussions - [Who competes with Seeking Alpha?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/who-competes-with-seeking-alpha) - 1 comment - [View Seeking Alpha pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/seeking-alpha/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+08%3A41%3A20+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d8d8dd33-862a-4cd7-973e-a1344b751bf5&secure%5Btoken%5D=4aebfbeb69c70a6b2af5b780db4d83f26cb75cfebd32b91f5382b6db2f061a2f&format=llm_user) ## Seeking Alpha Features **Functionality** - Customizable Reporting - Market Analytics - Client Portal - Investment Accounting - Real time - Compliance - Customizable Reporting **Integration** - Data aggregation - Accounting Integration - Risk Management **Agentic AI - Investment Portfolio Management** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance ## Top Seeking Alpha Alternatives - [Morningstar Direct](https://www.g2.com/products/morningstar-direct/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (407 reviews) - [Morningstar Direct Advisory Suite (formerly Advisor Workstation)](https://www.g2.com/products/morningstar-direct-advisory-suite-formerly-advisor-workstation/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (274 reviews) - [Ziggma](https://www.g2.com/products/ziggma/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (16 reviews)