Seeking Alpha is a financial media platform that operates under Seeking Alpha Ltd, founded by David Jackson in Israel in 2004. It primarily serves investors by providing stock market analysis, research tools, news, and financial market data.
Development History:
In 2004, Seeking Alpha was founded by David Jackson, a former technical analyst at Morgan Stanley.
In 2006, Seeking Alpha cooperated with Yahoo Finance to provide its articles for free and received investment from Benchmark Capital.
In 2009, Seeking Alpha completed a second round of funding of $7 million and partnered with Nasdaq.com for content collaboration.
In 2010, Seeking Alpha launched an investment app store that offers 27 third-party investment apps.
In 2013, Seeking Alpha declined an acquisition offer from a large internet company.
In 2016, Seeking Alpha had grown to have 13,240 financial analysts and their contributors, covered 12,780 companies from 70 countries, with more than one million registered users.
Business Content:
Seeking Alpha's content is divided into several sections:
Analysis: It provides stock investment advice from investors and analysts, covering various topics and strategies such as growth stocks, value stocks, small-cap stocks, high-yield stocks, etc.
News: It offers the latest news and analysis of global markets, including the US, Europe, Asia, and emerging markets, as well as commodities, futures, and government bonds, etc.
Market Data: It offers information related to dividend investing, including dividend stock rankings, yields, dividend and income ETFs, and investment portfolio strategies.
Screening and Comparisons: It analyzes, filters, and rates stocks and funds and provides users with stock and fund screeners and data comparison functionalities.
Investment Strategies: It provides relevant information about investment strategies, including macroeconomic analysis, financial trends, technical analysis, risk management and more.
Enterprise Honor:
Seeking Alpha has been recognized by Kiplinger's Magazine as the "Most Informative Website" and has received the Forbes Best of the Web award.