Crowd-sourced analysis and quant grades — but no valuation you can drive yourself.
| Feature | Lemma Analysis | Seeking Alpha |
|---|---|---|
| Intrinsic-value models | ✓ | ✗ |
| Four intrinsic-value models, side by side | ✓ | ✗ |
| Seven valuation multiples vs. the company’s own history | ✓ | Value grade vs sector |
| Bear / base / bull case on every model | ✓ | ✗ |
| Business quality score | 0–10, every plan | Quant & factor grades |
| Thesis notes with a review date | ✓ | Premium |
| Independent analyst articles | ✗ | ✓ |
| Earnings-call transcripts | ✗ | ✓ |
| Markets covered | US only | US only |
| Valuation on the free plan | Paid after 7-day trial | No valuation model |
| Free to start | ✓ | ✓ |
Seeking Alpha column checked against Seeking Alpha’s own pages on . Its cheapest paid plan, Premium, lists at $299.00/yr in US dollars before tax and promotions — vendors change their prices, so check theirs before you buy.
Seeking Alpha is the largest crowd-sourced investment research site: thousands of contributors publish analysis on more than four thousand US-listed stocks and ETFs, and every stock carries a Quant Rating and A-to-F factor grades for value, growth, profitability, momentum and revisions, each against its sector. Premium adds the article archive, the screener, earnings-call transcripts, broker-linked portfolios and notes with dated reminders. What it deliberately does not do is compute a value: its own quant FAQ explains that it avoids discounted cash flow because the result is too sensitive to the assumed growth rate. Lemma Analysis takes the opposite view — the sensitivity is the point, as long as you can see it and change it.
A huge base of independent analysis on US-listed stocks, including more than a thousand that Wall Street does not cover.
Quant Ratings and factor grades that place each stock against its own sector at a glance.
Earnings-call transcripts with audio, dividend grades, and portfolio notes that remind you on a date you choose.
Seeking Alpha grades a stock against its sector; Lemma Analysis asks what the company is worth — Advanced DCF, Ben Graham, Simple DCF and the Dividend Discount Model, on one axis against today’s price, every assumption yours and a bear, base and bull case behind each. Part of Ultimate, seven days of which comes with every new account.
Articles are other people’s theses. Every valuation here starts from the company’s own filings and leaves the argument to you — then keeps your thesis with a review date until you reaffirm it or exit.
The Fair Value tab judges seven valuation multiples against the company’s own history rather than against its sector — a different question from a value grade, and often a different answer.
If your ideas come from reading other investors’ arguments, Seeking Alpha’s contributor base is unmatched; Lemma Analysis publishes no contributor analysis of companies.
Unlimited earnings-call transcripts and a sector-relative quant rating on every stock are Premium’s core, and neither has a counterpart here.
Premium’s portfolio notes carry dated reminders, which covers the habit our thesis journal is built for. If that is the part you use, you have it; what we add is the valuation beside it.
Sign up in a moment — no credit card. Seven days of Ultimate come with it; the portfolio, the watchlists and the Quality Score stay free afterwards.
Open any ticker’s Intrinsic Value tab: Advanced DCF, Ben Graham, Simple DCF and the Dividend Discount Model, drawn on one axis against today’s price, with every assumption editable and a bear/base/bull case behind each.
Screen for candidates, then track them on a watchlist with a margin-of-safety target so each name carries an undervalued / fair / rich signal.
Record why you own each position and give it a review date. Reaffirm or exit when the date comes due — a habit the other tools don’t give you.
Lemma Analysis prices a company four ways — Advanced DCF, Ben Graham, Simple DCF and the Dividend Discount Model — and draws them on one axis against today’s price, with every assumption editable. Seeking Alpha grades valuation against a stock’s sector and runs no DCF of its own. The four models are part of Ultimate, and every new account gets seven days of it without a card.
It computes a value you can argue with: four models with a case on each, seven multiples judged against the company’s own history, and a five-pillar Quality Score on every plan. Seeking Alpha has the articles, the transcripts and the quant grades, and we say so.
They answer different questions. Premium sells other investors’ analysis and a sector-relative rating; Ultimate, at $8.99 a month or $79.99 a year, sells the tools to value the company yourself. If you read more than you model, Seeking Alpha is the better fit.
Its quant ratings cover US-listed stocks and ADRs, not foreign exchanges — the same reach as Lemma Analysis, which covers companies listed on NASDAQ and NYSE, ADRs included.
There is no direct import from Seeking Alpha. Watchlists are quick to rebuild by ticker, and a portfolio comes across as transactions — typed in on the free plan, which holds 1 portfolio of up to 10 positions, or on Ultimate imported from your broker’s CSV export or synced from Trading 212 or Interactive Brokers. Start with the positions you know least well; that is where a written thesis earns its keep.
Free to start, seven days of Ultimate with it, no credit card.