The short version: Finviz is the fastest market overview on the web; its heat maps and free screener are rightly ubiquitous, and Elite adds real-time data and backtesting for $39.50/month.
Stock Rover is what you graduate to when screening becomes research: 800+ metrics with equation and percentile screening, up to 20 years of fundamental history, research reports, fund coverage, and brokerage-linked portfolio analytics Finviz simply doesn’t attempt.
The one-line difference: Finviz shows you today’s market. Stock Rover researches companies and manages your money.
| Capability | Stock Rover | Finviz |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid tier | $34/mo (Premium; $29/mo billed annually) | Elite $39.50/mo or $299.50/yr (~$24.96/mo) |
| Free trial | 14 days, full-featured, no credit card | 7-day Elite trial, credit card required |
| Free tier | Limited free plan | Yes, with ads; hugely popular |
| Screener metrics | 800+, equations, percentile ranks, historical screening | ~70 filters; fast but fixed |
| Fundamental history | up to 20 years | 8 years (Elite) |
| Fundamental charting | Any metric, ratio charts, 30-yr dividends | EPS, sales, shares outstanding |
| Brokerage sync & portfolio analytics | ✓ every tier + performance report | Watchlist-style portfolios only |
| Mutual fund & ETF research | 7,400 ETFs + 20,000 funds (Ultimate) | ✗ |
| Research reports | ✓ per ticker, shareable | ✗ |
| Heat maps & market overview speed | Dashboard-based | Best in class |
| Futures / forex / crypto breadth | Crypto in Markets hub; no futures/forex | ✓ on the free site |
| Backtesting | Historical screening + strategy tools | Elite backtests (technical) |
On annual billing the two land close together: Stock Rover Premium at $348/year vs Finviz Elite at $299.50/year, with Elite slightly cheaper. The decision is about what the money buys. Elite buys real-time quotes, intraday charts and technical backtesting on top of the famous screener. Premium buys a research platform: deeper history, ratio charting, portfolio sync, alerts and reporting. And the trials differ more than the prices: Stock Rover’s 14-day trial never asks for a card; Finviz’s 7-day trial requires one.
Finviz screening is checkbox-fast: pick from roughly seventy filters and go. Stock Rover offers 800+ metrics you can combine into freeform equations (“FCF yield > 5% AND 5-yr dividend growth > 8%”), rank as percentiles against sector or index, and even run as of five years ago to see how a strategy would have screened historically.
Elite’s fundamental data reaches back 8 years; Stock Rover carries 10+ years on most metrics (20 on some) and 30 years of dividend history: the difference between checking a ratio and understanding a company’s cycle.
Finviz portfolios are quote lists. Stock Rover links your brokerage accounts, tracks dividend-adjusted daily history, and produces the Portfolio Performance Report: IRR vs time-weighted return, risk vs the S&P 500, projected income, and fund fees in dollars.
The part Finviz doesn’t attempt: your actual money, reported like a fund would report it.
The heat map is still the fastest way to see a trading day at a glance, and no one should pretend otherwise. The free tier is the most useful free screener on the web, which is why every investing forum links it. Coverage breadth on the free site (futures, forex, crypto) goes beyond Stock Rover’s equity-and-fund focus. If your workflow is “scan the whole market in ninety seconds,” keep Finviz in a tab.
Traders and market-watchers who want instant visual context, free screening, and (with Elite) real-time data with technical backtests, especially if fundamentals research happens somewhere else.
Investors who research what they buy and hold it across real accounts: Premium ($29/mo) for screening + portfolio sync; Premium Plus ($49/mo) for the 700+ metric library and equation screening; Ultimate ($79/mo) to add fund reports on 7,400 ETFs and 20,000 mutual funds and Investor Warnings.
For fundamentals research, screening depth, history and portfolio management, yes. For instant market visualization, free screening and futures/forex breadth, Finviz is better. They solve different problems, which is why many investors use both.
If you need real-time quotes and technical backtesting on Finviz’s interface, Elite delivers at $39.50/month ($299.50/year). If what you actually want is deeper fundamentals, longer history or portfolio tracking, Elite doesn’t add those; that’s the gap Stock Rover fills at a similar annual price.
No. Finviz portfolios are manually maintained watchlists. Stock Rover links brokerage accounts directly and produces a full performance report with IRR, risk and income analytics.
Yes: 14 days, full feature set, no card. Finviz’s Elite trial requires a credit card.
Stock Rover: 10+ years of fundamentals on most metrics (20 on some) and 30 years of dividend history, vs 8 years of fundamental data in Finviz Elite.
Run your Finviz screens through 800+ metrics and equation logic, then let the portfolio tools take over after you buy.
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