Which should you use: StockEyes or Macrotrends?
Use Macrotrends when your question is about the past: what a company's revenue, margins, and valuation multiples looked like over the last decade, how an index performed across market cycles, or how economic indicators trended over decades. Its long-term historical data is free and unusually deep. Use StockEyes when your question is about current positioning: which professional managers hold a stock now, what changed in their positions last quarter, and whether insiders are buying. Macrotrends shows you the company's history; StockEyes shows you who owns it today.
Both products are free at the point of use, so this is not a budget decision. It is a question decision: history or ownership. Long-term investors often need both, which is why the two sites pair well rather than compete.
What each product actually does
Macrotrends calls itself "the long term perspective on markets," and the product matches the slogan. It publishes high-quality historical charts covering stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, and economic and demographic indicators, with flagship series like the S&P 500 back to 1927 and inflation-adjusted gold prices back to 1915. For individual stocks, it offers long price and dividend histories, a decade of quarterly fundamental data (sourced from Zacks Investment Research), financial ratios, and a free stock screener covering thousands of U.S. and international stocks on 50-plus performance, fundamental, and technical criteria. The site is free and ad-supported.
StockEyes is an institutional-ownership and insider-research site. Its core is 13F filing research: free per-ticker pages showing which professional managers hold a stock and how positions changed quarter over quarter, plus signed-in Pro tools (a 13F change screener, a cluster-buying screener, a manager directory, comparison tools). It pairs that with a Form 4 insider-trading lesson, a verified market-news hub, an events calendar, and a glossary. StockEyes' historical depth is shallow by design: its question is who owns the stock now, not what the company's margins were in 2014.
The two products share a philosophy, free access to structured financial data, and little else. Macrotrends structures time series; StockEyes structures filings.
Historical data: Macrotrends’ domain
This is Macrotrends' signature strength and the reason long-term investors bookmark it. Where most free data sites show five years of annuals, Macrotrends shows a decade of quarterly fundamentals per stock, decades of price and dividend history, and century-scale series for major indexes and commodities. That depth changes the questions you can ask: instead of "is this P/E high," you can ask "is this P/E high relative to this company's own 15-year range," and instead of taking a recession narrative on faith, you can look at the actual indicator chart.
StockEyes does not compete here. Its datasets are current-position datasets: the latest 13F quarter's holdings and recent Form 4s. Multi-quarter 13F history exists for change analysis, but the product is not a historical financial database, and it makes no attempt to be one. If your research starts with "show me ten years of financials," Macrotrends is the answer and StockEyes has nothing to add.
One caveat worth carrying to any historical data: long histories contain survivorship quirks, restatements, and methodology changes. Macrotrends' data is a strong starting point; for investment-grade conclusions, verify key figures against the company's own filings, which is a habit StockEyes' 10-K lesson teaches.
The free screener comparison
Macrotrends' stock screener covers over 4,600 U.S. and international stocks on more than 50 performance, fundamental, and technical criteria. It is a genuine general-purpose screener, and it is free. For a long-term investor running a simple value or quality screen, it is entirely adequate, and the international coverage is a real advantage over U.S.-only tools.
StockEyes has no general screener; its screeners are 13F-based (holder changes, share changes, position values, cluster buying). The honest framing: Macrotrends' screener answers "which stocks match these financial criteria," StockEyes' screeners answer "which stocks are institutions accumulating." A long-term investor might reasonably screen on Macrotrends for cheap, profitable companies, then check the survivors' institutional ownership on StockEyes, a workflow that uses each product's free tier for its strength.
Compared with Finviz's free screener, Macrotrends' is simpler and slower-moving: fewer technical filters, no market maps, no intraday data. Its advantage is the historical context around each result rather than screening power. See the Finviz comparison for the screening-depth dimension.
Ownership data: StockEyes’ domain
Macrotrends does not do institutional-ownership research. It has no 13F dataset, no manager-level holdings, no quarterly change tracking, and no insider-transaction product. Ownership is simply outside its scope, which is historical financials and economics.
StockEyes is built for exactly that scope. Free institutional-ownership pages show which managers hold each ticker and how positions changed last quarter; the Pro 13F change screener and cluster-buying screener make the dataset searchable; the Form 4 lesson teaches insider reading. For the question "who owns this stock and what are they doing," Macrotrends has no answer and StockEyes has a full workflow.
| Capability | Macrotrends | StockEyes |
|---|---|---|
| Historical financials | 10 years quarterly per stock; decades of prices and dividends | Not offered |
| Long-term market charts | Signature strength: indexes, commodities, economic indicators | Not offered |
| Free stock screener | Yes: 50+ criteria, 4,600+ U.S. and international stocks | 13F-based screeners only (Pro) |
| 13F institutional ownership | Not offered | Core product: free pages plus Pro screeners |
| Insider transactions | Not offered | Data plus a full Form 4 reading lesson |
| Cost | Free, ad-supported | Free ownership pages, news, lessons; Pro for 13F screeners |
| Coverage | U.S. and international stocks | U.S.-listed equities (13F universe) |
Who each tool is best for
Choose Macrotrends if you invest on long-term fundamentals
You want a decade of financials, historical valuation ranges, and long-cycle context before judging any stock. You run simple fundamental screens and you like international coverage. The ads are the price of a genuinely free historical database; accept them and bookmark the ratio pages.
Choose StockEyes if you research current institutional positioning
You want to know who owns a stock now and what changed last quarter, whether insiders confirm the thesis with their own money, and whether managers are clustering into the same names. Your evidence comes from filings, not from history.
Use both: history plus ownership is a complete picture
The natural long-term workflow: use Macrotrends to establish what a company earned and how it was valued across cycles, then use StockEyes to see who owns it today and whether smart money is accumulating. A cheap stock with a decade of solid financials and fresh institutional buying is a very different research lead than a cheap stock with neither. Both halves are free.
Questions about StockEyes vs Macrotrends
Is Macrotrends free?
Yes. Macrotrends’ historical data, charts, and stock screener are free and ad-supported. There is no paid tier gating the core historical datasets.
How far back does Macrotrends data go?
It varies by series: flagship market series go back many decades (the S&P 500 to 1927, gold to 1915), individual stocks carry long price and dividend histories, and quarterly fundamental data covers about ten years, sourced from Zacks Investment Research.
Does Macrotrends have a stock screener?
Yes, a free screener covering over 4,600 U.S. and international stocks on more than 50 performance, fundamental, and technical criteria. It is simpler than Finviz’s screener but adequate for long-term fundamental screening.
Does Macrotrends show institutional ownership or insider trading?
No. Macrotrends does not offer 13F institutional-ownership data or insider-transaction data. For ownership research, StockEyes’ free institutional-ownership pages and Pro 13F screeners are the relevant tools.
Which is better for value investing research?
Macrotrends, for the historical valuation context: ten years of multiples and financials let you judge whether a stock is cheap relative to its own history. StockEyes adds the ownership check: whether institutions are buying the cheap stock too. The combination is stronger than either alone.
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