Morningstar alternatives: 5 ratings and research sites like Morningstar, ranked by attention
Morningstar is an investment research firm known for star ratings on funds and fair value estimates on stocks. Measured by the attention it draws — links from the rest of the web, Wikipedia readership and Hacker News mentions — it ranks #3 of the 30 stock research sites tracked here, and #1 of 6 for ratings and research. The 5 other ratings and research sites follow, in the same order.
Alternatives to Morningstar, most attention first
All 6 ratings and research sites we track · # is the rank within the category · “Overall” is the rank among all 30 sites · index is 0–100
| # | Site | Index | Overall | Linking subnets | Wikipedia, 30 d | HN, 12 mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morningstar this page morningstar.com | 89.7 | 3 / 30 | 11,522 | 7,579 | 90 |
| 2 | MarketBeat marketbeat.com | 50.6 | 14 / 30 | 3,607 | 408 | 4 |
| 3 | TipRanks tipranks.com | 46.6 | 16 / 30 | 3,186 | 626 | 2 |
| 4 | GuruFocus gurufocus.com | 40.8 | 18 / 30 | 3,697 | — | 5 |
| 5 | Simply Wall St simplywall.st | 32.2 | 21 / 30 | 2,842 | — | 2 |
| 6 | Zacks zacks.com | 30.5 | 22 / 30 | 3,496 | — | 1 |
MarketBeat scores 50.6 on the index against 89.7 for Morningstar, and has 3,607 linking subnets against 11,522. It ranks #14 of 30 overall; Morningstar ranks #3.
Morningstar vs MarketBeat
Morningstar (#3, index 89.7) against MarketBeat (#14, index 50.6). Links: 11,522 subnets point at morningstar.com and 3,607 at marketbeat.com — Morningstar has 3.2× as many. On Wikipedia, Morningstar's article drew 7,579 views in the 30 days to 2026-10-11 and MarketBeat's 408. Hacker News mentions over the past year: morningstar.com 90, marketbeat.com 4.
Morningstar vs TipRanks
Morningstar (#3, index 89.7) against TipRanks (#16, index 46.6). Links: 11,522 subnets point at morningstar.com and 3,186 at tipranks.com — Morningstar has 3.6× as many. On Wikipedia, Morningstar's article drew 7,579 views in the 30 days to 2026-10-11 and TipRanks's 626. Hacker News mentions over the past year: morningstar.com 90, tipranks.com 2.
Morningstar vs GuruFocus
Morningstar (#3, index 89.7) against GuruFocus (#18, index 40.8). Links: 11,522 subnets point at morningstar.com and 3,697 at gurufocus.com — Morningstar has 3.1× as many. Morningstar has a Wikipedia article (7,579 views in 30 days); GuruFocus has none in any language. Hacker News mentions over the past year: morningstar.com 90, gurufocus.com 5.
Who links to Morningstar
The Majestic Million places morningstar.com at #1,506 among the million most linked-to domains on the web, from #1,509 in its previous update. Pages linking to it sit on 11,522 distinct subnets and 27,903 IP addresses. Among the 30 sites here that is 79.3 points out of 100 on links.
How often Morningstar's Wikipedia article is read
7,579 views between 2026-09-12 and 2026-10-11, about 253 a day, across 20 language editions. The busiest day was 2026-09-18 with 643. Largest editions: en 5,880 · zh 416 · it 327. Bots and crawlers are excluded.
Next to Morningstar in the overall ranking
Ranked just above: MarketWatch (#2, news and commentary), index 89.7. Just below: Investing.com (#4, data and screening), index 88.5.
Questions people ask
What is the most popular alternative to Morningstar?
By attention, MarketBeat: index 50.6, 3,607 linking subnets and 4 Hacker News mentions in a year. That is a measure of how widely it is noticed, not of whether it suits you better than Morningstar.
How is Morningstar's index of 89.7 worked out?
It is the average of three rank scores among the 30 sites: 79.3 for links, 96.6 for Wikipedia readership and 93.1 for Hacker News mentions. First place on a measure is worth 100, last place 0.
Is Morningstar still being talked about?
On Hacker News, morningstar.com appeared in 6 stories and comments in the last 30 days and 90 in the last 365. Its Wikipedia article was read 7,579 times in the last 30 days.
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All 30 stock research sites, in one ranking
This is a ranking of attention, not of quality. It says nothing about accuracy, price or features, and it is not investment advice. Three measures, each turned into a rank among the 30 sites (first = 100 points, last = 0, ties share) and then averaged into the index: linking subnets — the number of distinct networks hosting pages that link to the site's domain, from the Majestic Million (2026-10-13), licensed CC BY 3.0; Wikipedia views — human readers of the site's article across every language edition, 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-11, from the Wikimedia pageviews API; Hacker News — stories and comments containing the domain in the 365 days to 2026-10-13, counted with the Algolia HN Search API. 18 of the 30 sites have no Wikipedia article in any language and tie for last on that measure. Sites that live under a larger domain (Yahoo Finance, Google Finance) are left out because their links cannot be separated from the parent's. We are not affiliated with any site listed; names are trademarks of their owners.