Seeking AlphaReviews 359

Watch out with this joke of a company!

I thought highly of them before I subscribed to their "Alpha Picks" subscription service for 6 months ($499.19) on 10 Dec 2024

Next day or two, I decided to end the subscription... but could not get a refund. Fair enough, that is their 'policy.'

BUT here is the issue.

This expensive service was supposed to last for 6 months. It lasted for 2 days.

A little over two months after my subscription purchase on 10 Dec 2024, I do not have access to the "Alpha Picks" service and neither will these people give me a refund.

Someone from Seeking Alpha called Soham Chowdhury kept emailing me, playing the fool and not offering either the "Alpha Picks" OR the refund, with a whole lot of pointless excuses.

If there are issues, they will keep your money and avoid talking to you... unless forced to by Chargeback or someone similar.

If you do not have a free account you have no access to any publications at all. So, I opened a free account and discovered that it is impossible to find accessible publications. Look at my photo #1 - it is a snap shot of the main page. 12 news of the right side look normal: no lock symbols or dollars signs indicating that it is a premium content. So, to write this review, I clicked on each of those - see my photo #2 as an illustration for the first attempt: the publication is for paying customers! Next 10 publications were in the same category. First and the only one, which was free, is #11. So mach for free content!
I think my chances to get a success would be much higher if I go to Casino... or to other financial/investment website.
I am a regular guy who wanted to read some news.
However, i never seen such a disrespectful approach to readers, hence, do not recommend this site.

Rip off. Auto-renewals are a scam into themselves. But rarely have a seen an auto renewal without the ability to cancel and get a pro-rated refunds. This is a sign of desperation and shady business practice.

There's no reason to pay for any premium services from either Seeking Alpha or any of it's subscriber services. The data for premium members is easily accessed from other free sites. Much of the "economic analysis" from the company is highly biased. The feature writers are all over the map - most of them are unqualified people trying to get clicks for fees. The collective wisdom of the "analysts" are no better than the flip of a coin. Some of the analysts are painfully ill-informed.
The Point: Seeking Alpha is merely a social media company promoting the status quo. Their censors are merciless and heavily biased to whatever the prevailing mainstream media agenda may be at the moment. If MSNBC had a financial site, it would be a lot like this. Regardless of your view of politics or culture, that would, in my view, make Seeking Alpha an awful choice for financial information.

I tried a promotional subscription from Seeking Alpha and I was unknowingly renewed at their ridiculous rate of 236.00 $. It took me three phone calls and a week and a half to talk to a manager, only to be denied any kind of a refund. These people are all about the money, beware.

I subscribed for the first time in early March 2023. Seeking Alpha Pro always keeps me updated on the market outlook, my portfolio, breaking news, what stocks are worth looking at, etc. Also, one gets a detailed analysis of individual stocks from various analysts. It helps a lot to assess each stock. Daily emails. I am very satisfied, and I highly recommend Seeking Alpha Pro.

The free portfolio page provides all you need to quickly and easily monitor the status of your individual investments. Finding additional unbiased information and insights from investors like me helps me to have confidence in my investment decisions.

As an investor with a decent size of my portfolio invested in small cap companies, Seeking Alpha is by far the most helpful and informative on small cap companies. Finding good articles on popular companies is relatively easy, but when I try to find info or data on small cap companies, from my experience most of the articles that I do find online are not as informative. At times it's almost impossible to find any news at all.

With Seeking Alpha I can finally understand what is actually happening with my stocks. As a small time investor this app gives me the information that only financial institutions have!

As an investor and someone looking for investment insight I have used many of the same sites everyone else uses. A friend told me amazing insight about a common company we both are invested in and I asked him how he found his information. He told me about SeekingAlpha.com. I signed up and was hooked from day one, I entered my portfolio (2/2023) and it's the primary tool I use now for investment insight and market information. Great research and consolidation of industry info is done in an intuitive fashion, I use the iPad version of the tool primarily.

I really like how it makes data much easier to digest, especially when it comes to valuations. I used to just use Yahoo finance and CNBC. This is A LOT better than either of those for financial information and research. Well worth the money.

Good analysis by various contributors. The portfolio structure is very helpful, includes 3 different equity ratings. Timely e-mails about new analysis by independent sources. Brief hi-lite with Indepth info if user wants to read more.

Seeking Alpha guides investors via in-depth company analyses that include rankings in various quant / industrial segments and utilizes historical data and color to paint a vibrant picture or outlook. Portfolios are interactive and they offer instant feedback on a daily basis. Best membership for the value of information provided.

Seeking Alpha seems to have some awesome features. However at this point, I'm not hands-on enough to really use anything beyond the portfolio tracker for my research. I was happy to use the pro version and could see the use for someone more hands-on. Unfortunately, I missed the renewal email and ended up paying after the trial. I reached out and Nithya was very kind and allowed a refund.

I would definitely recommend them if you're wanting to really cut your teeth on investing and want to manage it directly. For simple guys like me, it's a bit overkill.