Compare puts several companies and several metrics on one chart over real time, so you can see who grew faster, whose margins held and which one the market priced higher. You can find it in the app under Tools → Compare. Up to five companies and four metrics on one chart, over real time — price and total return, revenue and margins, cash flow, dividends and valuation multiples — with a table of the latest values underneath. Everything you set lives in the page’s address, so a chart is a link.
A free account charts one company on one metric over the last five years. Putting companies against each other — up to five, on up to four metrics, over their whole history — is part of Ultimate, and every new account gets it for seven days: create an account, confirm your email, and the trial starts without a card. A chart is an address, so the link you made keeps working the day you subscribe.
On the free plan, once you reach its limit, + Company and + Metric carry an Ultimate badge and pressing them explains what Ultimate adds instead of opening the picker. The longer windows are locked the same way, and the brush under the chart stops at the free plan’s history.
A link somebody else built still opens. If it asks for more than the free plan draws, an amber strip above the builder says how many companies and metrics the chart holds and which one you are seeing, with Open in Ultimate → beside it. The companies and metrics that are not drawn stay on the builder as dashed chips with the Ultimate badge, and the link keeps all of them. Export is the same on every plan.
Press + Company, type a ticker or a name, and pick the company from the dropdown. The counter beside Companies shows how many are on the canvas against the limit — up to 5 on Ultimate. Each company gets its own colour by its position in the row, and keeps it on every line, bar, tooltip and table row.
Every company chip has an eye, which hides that company from the chart and the table without removing it, and a cross, which removes it. A company opened in the app for the first time may show loading history… for a few seconds while its data is fetched; the chart fills in by itself. A ticker we do not know is dropped from the chart with a short note saying so.
You can also arrive with companies already on the canvas: the screener’s Compare button, on Ultimate, takes the rows you ticked (see How to use the stock screener), and the statement blocks on a company’s Financials tab carry a Chart builder ↗ link that opens that company with the metrics the block draws.
With companies on the canvas and no metric chosen, the chart draws total return. Press + Metric to open Add a metric: search with Search metrics…, or walk the categories on the left — Popular first, then the rest, each showing how many of its metrics are available now. Every row carries its unit. Hovering a metric describes it in the footer: its unit, whether higher or lower is better, how its trend is measured and which periods it comes in. A metric marked Soon is listed so you know it is coming, but cannot be added yet.
Ticking a metric puts it on the canvas at once, and ticking it again takes it off; Done closes the picker. Up to 4 metrics fit on one canvas on Ultimate — price and market cap, revenue and net margin, free cash flow, P/E and the rest of the catalogue.
Each metric chip shows its unit and, in Overlay, which axis it sits on (for example $ · left axis). A statement metric offers Bar or Line; a daily one, such as price, is always a line. The ⓘ on the chip explains the metric, and the eye and cross work as they do on a company.
Three switches change how the metrics are read:
Overlay draws up to two metrics on one chart. The first metric takes the left axis and the second the right, whatever their units — a share price and a market cap are both in dollars, but on one shared scale the price would be a flat line along the bottom. The two axes share one set of gridlines, and every gridline carries a label on both sides. When both metrics are drawn the same way, the second one is drawn lighter (pale bars, a faded line) and its chip shows a small sample of which is which, because the colour belongs to the company, not to the metric.
Split gives every metric its own panel, one above the other, on one shared time axis. Adding a third metric switches to Split by itself and says so; while three or more metrics are showing, Overlay is greyed out with the reason. Remove or hide a metric to overlay again.
The Auto · Zero · Zoomed switch sets the vertical axis: Auto starts bars at zero and fits lines to their data, Zero always includes zero, and Zoomed fits the visible points tightly.
The horizontal axis is real time. Statement figures sit on each company’s own fiscal dates, so two companies whose years end in different months are drawn where their years actually end, and a quarter is never stretched to look like a day. Bars a few days apart share one slot.
Pick a window from the presets — 1M, 6M, YTD, 1Y, 3Y, 5Y, 10Y and All; the chart opens on 5Y — or use the brush under the chart. The brush is a small map of the first company’s price history: drag the highlighted window to move it, drag its edges to widen or narrow it, or type dates into From and To.
Hover the chart for a readout of the date and every visible series’ value on it. When exactly two series of one percentage metric are showing, the readout also gives the gap between them in percentage points: which company leads, and by how much.
Press Trend to draw a trend line through every series over the visible window, with a pill at its end giving the rate per year. How the rate is measured is the metric’s own rule, shown in the picker’s footer:
+10.0%/yr.pp/yr for a margin, ×/yr for a multiple.Some metrics, such as drawdown or dividend history, have no trend. A growth rate whose first or last point is zero or negative has no meaning, so that series falls back to the straight line; a series with fewer than two points gets no pill at all rather than a made-up one.
Add label lets you annotate the chart: click a point, type a note of up to 60 characters and press Enter. A chart carries up to 10 labels, each with a small cross to delete it, and they travel with the link and the exported image.
Under the chart, Latest values has one row per company and one column per visible metric. A cell holds the last point of that series — hover the figure for its date — and a chip with the change over the window, which is the very number the trend pill shows. Where a metric has a better direction, the best figure in the column is tagged HIGHEST or LOWEST.
Two kinds of empty cell mean different things:
n/m — not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E for a loss-making one.— — not collected: there is no figure for it.Every setting — companies, metrics, window, layout, axis, trend, labels — is in the address. Share copies that link, or opens your device’s share sheet where there is one; whoever opens it sees the same chart. Each edit on the builder is a step in your browser history, so the back button walks back through the charts you built.
Export opens Export image. Set the Title, the Aspect (16:9, 1:1 or 4:3), the Theme (Dark or Light) and whether to include the Legend and Gridlines, check the preview, then press Download PNG — or Copy image, where your browser can put an image on the clipboard. Every exported image carries the Lemma Analysis mark.
The company and metric chips scroll sideways in one line each. The period switch and a shorter set of windows — 1Y to All — stay on the builder; currency, per-share, Overlay or Split, Trend, labels and the axis move into More, a sheet where every change applies as you make it. Share and Export become icons in the page head, the metric picker opens full-screen, and the latest-values table turns into one card per company.
The Compare stocks page shows what the canvas draws and what each metric category holds, with ready-made pairs to start from.