Looking for a Simply Wall St alternative
Simply Wall St is cheaper than Oak Growth and covers a hundred and fifty times more companies. Here's an honest account of what it does well, the four reasons people go looking anyway, and where the two tools actually differ.
What Simply Wall St is genuinely good at
It is the most approachable research tool on the market and the comparison should start there. Around 150,000 companies are searchable. Every one gets a visual report built on a five-axis “Snowflake” — Value, Future Growth, Past Performance, Financial Health and Dividend — underpinned by S&P Global Market Intelligence data. Their valuation work is serious: four discounted cash flow variants, including a dividend discount model, an excess returns model for banks and insurers, and an AFFO model for REITs, plus a modelled fair price-to-earnings ratio.
They also do two commercial things well. The trial needs no card, and there's a portfolio demo you can look at without signing up at all. And their paid tiers are cheaper than Oak Growth. If price and breadth are what you're optimising for, they win, and no amount of feature comparison changes that.
Why people go looking for an alternative anyway
The monthly report cap
The free tier allows five company reports a month. The mid tier raises it to thirty. Only the top tier is unlimited. If you research widely rather than deeply, that ceiling is the thing you hit first, and it's the most common reason people start looking around.
No timing signals at all
There are no technical indicators anywhere in the product — no RSI, no moving averages, no MACD, no crossovers. There's a share price line but no indicator layer on top of it. That's a deliberate design choice and a perfectly defensible one, but if you want any view on entry timing you'll be running a second tool alongside.
No moat axis, no management score
The five Snowflake axes are all financial outcomes. None of them scores the durability of the competitive advantage producing those outcomes, and none scores the quality of the people running the business. For anyone working in the Buffett tradition those are the first two questions, not optional extras. See what an economic moat is.
Funds sit awkwardly
ETFs are covered, but their own documentation acknowledges that ETFs don't really fit a report format designed around company analysis. There's no ETF screener. Mutual funds, bonds and crypto aren't covered.
How Oak Growth differs
Oak Growth is much smaller and deliberately so: roughly 1,000 companies across nine markets rather than 150,000. Every one of them is scored on Buffett's four pillars — moat, management, economics and value — with an estimated intrinsic value in pounds and the resulting margin of safety against today's price. There's no report cap; a subscription opens everything.
On the chart, each company carries moving averages, RSI, support and resistance levels and golden-cross and death-cross markers, so the tool has a view on when as well as what. Company news is filtered down to the RNS and SEC 8-K announcements likely to move a price rather than presented in full. ETFs are ranked on returns rather than forced into a company template, and there are commodity and index views alongside.
Side by side
| Simply Wall St | Oak Growth | |
|---|---|---|
| Companies | ~150,000 | ~1,000 |
| Markets | Global | 9 |
| Fair value / DCF | 4 models | Yes |
| Moat score | No | Yes |
| Management score | No | Yes |
| Technical signals | None | MA, RSI, S/R |
| Filtered price-moving news | No | RNS + 8-K |
| ETF rankings | No | Yes |
| Report caps | 5 / 30 / unlimited | None |
| Trial | No card needed | Card up front, 7 days |
| Price | From ~£9/month | £18/month |
Stay with Simply Wall St if…
You research across a very wide universe, you want the cheapest paid research available, you're happy valuing companies without a moat or management judgement layered on top, or you're already running a separate charting tool for timing. Those are all good reasons and I'd give the same advice to a friend.
Try Oak Growth instead if…
You hold a concentrated portfolio of businesses you understand, you want the moat and management questions answered explicitly rather than inferred from ratios, you want the valuation and the entry signal in the same place, and you'd rather have a curated thousand companies than a searchable hundred and fifty thousand.
Valuation, quality and timing on one screen
Oak Growth scores roughly 1,000 companies across nine markets on Buffett's four pillars, estimates what each is worth, and flags entry signals on the chart. £18 a month, no report caps.
Explore Oak GrowthCommon questions
What is a good alternative to Simply Wall St?
It depends on what you found missing. If it was screening depth and backtesting, Stockopedia or SharePad. If it was moat and management judgement, entry timing signals or filtered company news, Oak Growth covers those but across roughly 1,000 companies rather than 150,000.
Is Simply Wall St's fair value reliable?
It is a discounted cash flow estimate, which means it is only as good as its assumptions about future cash flows and discount rate. That is true of every fair value figure, including Oak Growth's. Treat any of them as one input, check the assumptions behind it, and insist on a margin of safety.
Does Simply Wall St have technical indicators?
No. There are no moving averages, RSI, MACD or crossover signals anywhere in the product. It shows share price history but no indicator layer, so anyone who uses charts for entry timing needs a second tool alongside it.
Is Oak Growth cheaper than Simply Wall St?
No. Simply Wall St's paid tiers start below Oak Growth's £18 a month. Oak Growth's argument is the bundle rather than the price: moat and management scoring, intrinsic value, entry signals, filtered RNS and SEC news and ETF rankings in one subscription with no report caps.
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