Looking for a Stockopedia alternative
Stockopedia beats Oak Growth on almost every feature count, and this page says so first. The differences that matter are structural: a valuation in pounds versus a rank against peers, filtered same-day RNS versus an evening archive, and £18 against £32.
Start with what Stockopedia does better
It is the most complete stock research service aimed at UK private investors, and it isn't close. Its StockRank system scores every company on Quality, Value and Momentum out of 100, combines them into a single rank, and has published live performance for those ranks since 2013 — over a decade of evidence, which almost nobody else offers. Underneath sit more than 500 defined ratios, over 350 screenable fields, six years of history plus three years of broker forecasts, and coverage of somewhere between 32,000 and 40,000 securities across 61 exchanges.
It also carries the full technical package — Ichimoku, Bollinger bands, MACD, RSI, ADX, stochastics, parabolic SAR, ATR trailing stops and more — along with backtesting, dozens of pre-built guru screens, and quality checks including the Piotroski F-Score, a sector-adjusted Altman Z-Score and the Beneish M-Score. Oak Growth has none of those.
If you build, test and iterate on screens, or you want a broker-forecast layer in your momentum work, stop reading. Stockopedia is the correct tool and £32 a month is fair for it.
The four places Oak Growth is different
A value in pounds, not a rank against peers
This is the real structural difference. Stockopedia ranks a company against the rest of the market: a ValueRank of 94 tells you it looks cheap relative to everything else. It does not publish a fair value figure. Oak Growth runs a discounted cash flow per company and publishes an estimated intrinsic value in pounds, so you see the gap against today's price as a margin of safety percentage. A rank tells you where something sits in a queue; a valuation tells you what you think it's worth. They answer different questions.
News timing and filtering
Stockopedia does carry company news, aggregated from Refinitiv and newswire providers including RNS. But by their own help pages, RNS arrives on an end-of-day archive basis published in the evening, because real-time exchange licensing is prohibitively expensive, and there are no stock-specific RNS alerts — a user request for RNS filtering has sat open on their ideas forum since 2011. Oak Growth filters RNS and SEC 8-K announcements down to the ones likely to move a price. Narrower coverage, but same-day and filtered.
Moat and management as explicit pillars
Stockopedia's QualityRank includes a Buffett-inspired “Franchise Rank” built from long-run ROCE, gross profits to assets, margin stability and sales consistency — so it is not fair to say they ignore moats. The difference is presentation: theirs is a component inside a composite score, Oak Growth's four pillars are the whole interface, with moat and management shown as separate pass-or-fail judgements alongside economics and value.
Price and scope
Stockopedia starts around £32 a month for a single region, with more regions costing more. Oak Growth is £18 a month for all nine markets it covers, and adds ETF rankings, commodity and index views in the same subscription. You are buying far less analytical machinery for roughly half the money.
Side by side
| Stockopedia | Oak Growth | |
|---|---|---|
| Securities | 32,000–40,000 | ~1,000 |
| Q / V / M scoring | Yes, since 2013 | Yes |
| Fair value in £ | No | Yes (DCF) |
| Screenable fields | 350+ | Core set |
| Backtesting | Yes | No |
| Technical suite | Extensive | MA, RSI, MACD, S/R |
| F-Score, Z-Score, M-Score | Yes | No |
| Broker forecasts | 3 years | No |
| RNS | End-of-day archive | Filtered, same day |
| ETF rankings | No | Yes |
| Price | From £32 (one region) | £18 (9 markets) |
Who should choose which
Stockopedia if you are systematic: building screens, backtesting them, tracking ranks over time, or wanting forecast data folded into momentum. Also if you need coverage of small caps, AIM and international listings well beyond a thousand companies.
Oak Growth if you hold a concentrated portfolio, want an explicit estimate of what each business is worth rather than where it ranks, want the four Buffett questions answered on one card, and would rather pay less for something you'll actually use every week. Simplicity is the pitch, and for a lot of investors it is the wrong pitch — know which you are.
Nine markets, four pillars, one price
Oak Growth estimates what roughly 1,000 companies are worth, scores each on moat, management, economics and value, and flags entry signals on the chart. £18 a month for every market it covers.
Explore Oak GrowthCommon questions
What is the best alternative to Stockopedia?
For screening depth and backtesting there isn't a close substitute in the UK apart from SharePad. If what you want is an estimated fair value per company rather than a relative rank, Simply Wall St and Oak Growth both publish one, though across very different universes and at different prices.
Does Stockopedia give you a fair value for a share?
No. Stockopedia ranks companies against each other on Quality, Value and Momentum rather than publishing a discounted cash flow fair value per company. If you want a figure in pounds to compare against the current price, you need a tool built around intrinsic value instead.
Is Stockopedia worth £32 a month?
If you screen systematically, probably yes — the field count, the forecast data and thirteen years of published rank performance are hard to replicate elsewhere. If you hold ten companies and mainly want to know what each is worth, you would be paying for machinery you never use.
Does Stockopedia include RNS announcements?
Yes, but on an end-of-day archive basis published in the evening rather than in real time, and their own documentation notes there are no stock-specific RNS alerts. Live RNS is available from SharePad and ShareScope; Oak Growth carries same-day RNS filtered to price-moving announcements.
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