Screening for stocks is one way that investors can search for and discover potential new ideas. Whether you're a growth investor, value investor, or anywhere in between, stock screening can be helpful for identifying new opportunities to research further.

But with hundreds of available stock screening tools, it can be difficult to determine which is the best one. This list should help.

Our team researched and analyzed dozens of publicly available stock screening tools and condensed the list into the very best based on ease-of-use, breadth of data, user interface, affordability and a variety of other factors.

Let's get started:

FinChat has the most robust and customizable stock screener available today.

FinChat's screener is completely free and easy-to-use. Pulling from the global universe of stocks, users can customize their search with nearly any metric imaginable to find the perfect investment candidates that fit their criteria.

To make things even easier, we've integrated our stock screening feature into our conversational AI. Now, instead of selecting and adjusting every single parameter, investors can simply submit a request like "Hey FinChat, show me stocks with an 8% dividend yield." (See below)

Pros:

✅ Free!

✅ Intuitive & modern user interface

✅ Breadth of data

✅ AI-enabled

Cons:

❌ No ETFs or Mutual Funds

❌ Not useful for day traders

Stock Rover is one of the top free-to-use stock screeners. It has an extensive list of pre-made screeners for investors to choose from.

Beyond individual companies, Stock Rover users can also screen for exchange-traded funds and mutual funds.

Pros:

✅ Free!

✅ Tracks ETF & mutual funds

✅ Lots of pre-made screeners

Cons:

❌ Certain metrics aren't available to free users

Zacks' screening tool is intuitive and completely free to use. With Zacks, users can also search for companies based on the Zacks Ratings System if they are a paying member.

Beyond generic financial data, Zacks also tracks broker ratings and has a range of proprietary filters including growth score and value score.

Pros:

✅ Free to use

✅ Proprietary metrics

Cons:

❌ Outdated User Interface

Koyfin's stock screener offers exceptional breadth of data. With more than 100,000 available securities and 5,900 filter criteria, Koyfin's screener is very customizable.

Koyfin also has some great templates for investors looking for inspiration on what parameters to set.

Pros:

✅ Breadth of Data

✅ Select Templates

✅ Export Capability

Cons:

❌ Complex User Interface

❌ Costs $39/month to get more than 2 screens

Gurufocus offers several useful and timeless screening templates including the Ben Graham Lost Formula and Recent CEO Buys. These predetermined formulas can provide great inspiration for investors that don't have certain parameters that they're already looking for.

Gurufocus' company coverage spans the globe and isn't limited to just a couple regions.

Pros:

✅ Great Templates

✅ Covers lots of geographies

Cons:

❌ Intimidating User Interface

❌ Costs $424/year to see the screener results

While stock screeners are helpful for identifying new opportunities, they shouldn't be an investor's end-all be-all. When it comes to investing in individual stocks, there's always a story behind the numbers.

That's why we've built the complete stock research platform for fundamental investors.

Whether you're looking to examine a company's financials further or get a deeper understanding of a specific company's operations, FinChat.io has it all in a single place.