Oak Growth vs SharePad
SharePad is a superb data terminal that expects you to do the analysis. Oak Growth does the analysis — a value in pounds, the gap to today's price, and a verdict on the four things that actually decide whether a business is worth owning.
The short version
SharePad is a deep, professionally built data terminal for UK private investors. It gives you an enormous amount of raw material and expects you to do the analysis. Oak Growth does the analysis and gives you the answer — a value in pounds, a margin of safety, and a verdict on the four things that decide whether a business is worth owning.
Side by side
| Oak Growth | SharePad | |
|---|---|---|
| Intrinsic value in £ | Every company, DCF | No fair value published |
| Sort by margin of safety | One click | Not available |
| Buffett four pillars | Moat, management, economics, value | No |
| Entry timing | MA dots + RSI, read in a second | Full charting, interpret it yourself |
| Markets | 8, including Japan, HK, Australia | UK, US, Europe |
| Works on a phone | Yes | Desktop-oriented |
| Time to a decision | Minutes | Weeks to learn |
| UK RNS news | No — live SEC 8-K only | Live RNS and Alliance News |
| Data depth | Core set | Exceptional |
| Price | £18/month, one tier, everything in | Tiered — check current rates |
The difference that decides it
SharePad hands you the ingredients. Oak Growth hands you the meal.
SharePad's filtering is genuinely powerful — you can combine almost any two measures into a condition, which most rank-based tools can't. But it publishes no fair value. If you want to know what a business is worth, you build the discounted cash flow yourself from the data it gives you. Oak Growth runs that calculation on every company it covers and publishes the number, the assumptions behind it, and the gap to today's price.
One click to the most undervalued companies
Because there's a value on every company, Oak Growth can rank the entire universe by the discount to it. That's the screen it opens on. A tool with no fair value figure structurally cannot offer that — there's nothing to measure the price against.
Four questions, answered
Moat, management, economics, value — scored on every company, in that order, because cheap comes last. SharePad will show you five hundred data points and leave the judgement entirely to you. That's a legitimate design; it's also a lot of work.
Eight markets, one price
SharePad covers the UK, US and Europe. Oak Growth adds Japan, Hong Kong and Australia, and there are no tiers — every market and every feature is in the £18.
Where SharePad is stronger
Its UK fundamental data is about as deep as private investors can buy, its charting is professional-grade, and it carries live RNS and Alliance News, which Oak Growth does not — Oak Growth carries live SEC 8-K filings for the US market, filtered to those likely to move a price. If you want to build your own bespoke screens from hundreds of fields, it does that better than Oak Growth does. It's a specialist's tool and it earns that description.
Who each one suits
SharePad if you have a method of your own, enjoy building screens from raw data, and have the weeks it takes to learn the interface properly.
Oak Growth if you want to open a screen, see which companies across eight markets trade furthest below what they're worth, check the four pillars, glance at the entry signal, and get on with your day. £18 a month, nothing behind a tier.
The answer, not the raw data
Oak Growth publishes a discounted cash flow intrinsic value for roughly 1,000 companies across eight markets, ranks them all by margin of safety, and scores every one on Buffett's four pillars.
Explore Oak GrowthCommon questions
Is there a simpler alternative to SharePad?
Oak Growth covers roughly 1,000 companies across eight markets with a discounted cash flow intrinsic value, a margin of safety figure and Buffett four-pillar scoring on each, for £18 a month with no tiers. SharePad provides far deeper raw data but publishes no fair value, so the valuation work is yours to do.
Does SharePad give you a fair value for a share?
No. SharePad supplies extensive fundamental data and powerful filtering, but it does not publish a discounted cash flow fair value per company. Oak Growth computes one for every company it covers and lets you rank the whole universe by the discount to it.
Which markets does SharePad cover?
SharePad covers UK, US and European markets. Oak Growth covers eight markets, adding Japan, Hong Kong and Australia to the UK, US and European coverage, all included in a single £18 monthly subscription.
Is SharePad hard to learn?
It is a deep professional tool, and reviewers consistently describe the learning curve in weeks rather than days. Oak Growth is deliberately narrower — the intrinsic value, the four pillars and the entry signal are on one card, readable in seconds.
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