GuruFocus gives you every tool. This gives you the answer. A new GuruFocus subscriber gets a fundamentals terminal: 500+ screening filters, DCF and intrinsic-value calculators, up to 30 years of financial statements, and guru portfolios among dozens of tools — then a quiet evening deciding which of them answers the question they came with. The terminal runs $424–2,398 a year, billed annually. HoldingsIntel is built to settle a single question — what are the 551 largest institutional managers doing with their $59.6T in disclosed holdings, and which of those moves deserve attention — for $19 a month.
We build HoldingsIntel. Every number below is sourced and dated so you can check it — and where GuruFocus is the better tool, the table says so.
HoldingsIntel vs. GuruFocus
GuruFocus gives you every tool. This gives you the answer.
A new GuruFocus subscriber gets a fundamentals terminal: 500+ screening filters, DCF and intrinsic-value calculators, up to 30 years of financial statements, and guru portfolios among dozens of tools — then a quiet evening deciding which of them answers the question they came with. The terminal runs $424–2,398 a year, billed annually. HoldingsIntel is built to settle a single question — what are the 551 largest institutional managers doing with their $59.6T in disclosed holdings, and which of those moves deserve attention — for $19 a month.
| Dimension | HoldingsIntel | GuruFocus |
|---|---|---|
| Per-position conviction | every buy rated 0–100, with a published track record1 | holdings listed, not rated |
| Funds buying into weakness | flagged and ranked automatically each quarter | not offered |
| Filing types combined | institutional + insider + activist + congressional — four filings, one conclusion per stock | guru 13Fs and insider trades, shown separately |
| Stock screener | not offered | 500+ filters |
| DCF & valuation models | not built, deliberately | included, with intrinsic-value estimates |
| Financial-statement history | not offered — 13F history to 2014 instead | 10–30 years by plan |
| Coverage | 551 largest managers — 90% of US 13F capital2 | global stocks plus ~8,000 tracked portfolios |
| Price | $19–49/mo, full analytics at $19 | $424–2,398/yr, annual billing only |
1Conviction bands are tested against forward returns across 46 quarters of filing history; per-band outcomes are published on the backtesting page.
2Dollar-weighted: total holdings value reported by tracked managers ÷ total value reported across all SEC Form 13F filings, computed from SEC 13F datasets and re-verified quarterly (as of 2026-07-11). Measures disclosed institutional holdings — not the whole US stock market, and not assets we manage.
The terminal problem
A screener with 500 filters assumes you already know the shape of the answer: which metrics matter, at what thresholds, in what combination. That is real power in the hands of a practiced fundamental analyst — and homework for everyone else. HoldingsIntel starts from the opposite end: the positions the largest managers have already built, each rated 0–100 for how much it means to the fund that holds it, so the first screen you see is a ranked answer instead of an empty query form. More tools is not a faster decision. Most quarters, it is a slower one.
Where GuruFocus is the better tool
If your process is fundamental analysis, GuruFocus is the stronger product for that job: DCF and intrinsic-value models, three decades of financial statements, a screener expressive enough for almost any value thesis, and coverage far beyond US 13F filers. We deliberately built none of that. HoldingsIntel exists for the investor who wants the institutional read itself — what the biggest managers just did, and how much it matters — without assembling it from a toolbox.
Bottom line
Choose GuruFocus
To value companies yourself: models, screens, and thirty years of financials in one terminal.
Choose HoldingsIntel
To know what the largest managers just did and which moves matter — scored, cross-checked, and priced at a fraction of the terminal's entry tier.
References
- SEC EDGAR full-text 13F filing system — primary source for all holdings data
- Conviction backtesting methodology — 46 quarters of per-band forward returns, published
- GuruFocus public pricing page, as of 2026-07 (prior verification)
- GuruFocus product pages — All-in-One Screener (500+ filters) and tracked institutional portfolios (8,000+), as of 2026-07
Questions traders actually ask
Can HoldingsIntel replace a GuruFocus subscription?
Only if the part of GuruFocus you actually use is guru tracking. Its fundamentals, screener, and valuation models have no equivalent here. If your workflow is following institutional money rather than modeling companies, HoldingsIntel covers that half deeper — every position scored, four filing types in one read — at $190/yr against GuruFocus's $424–2,398/yr.
Does HoldingsIntel have a stock screener like GuruFocus?
No, and that row goes to GuruFocus without argument — its 500+ filters are the best screening surface in this comparison. HoldingsIntel replaces the query box with pre-ranked output: conviction-rated buys, funds adding into price declines, and a per-stock verdict built from four SEC filing types.
Why is HoldingsIntel so much cheaper than GuruFocus?
Scope, not corners. GuruFocus prices in global fundamentals, 30 years of statements, and an API-grade data business. HoldingsIntel prices one job — reading the 551 largest managers' filings and scoring them — so $19/mo buys the full analytics suite rather than the bottom rung of a tier ladder.
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