Before building Company in 30 Seconds, we checked how the free stock research sites people already use actually present a company's basics.
Accurate, free, and still built for people who already speak finance
We checked stockanalysis.com's financials page directly. The core numbers are free and ungated, which is genuinely good — but the page presents them as a dense table: rows of fiscal years, columns of line items, terms like "TTM" and margins left unexplained. It's a great tool if you already know how to read a financial statement. If you just want to know Apple's revenue, you're scanning a spreadsheet to find it.
Some sites would rather you not automate the question at all
We also tried reaching Macrotrends directly and got blocked outright (HTTP 403) — a reminder that some of these sites actively resist any kind of quick, programmatic lookup, free tier or not.
Straight from the SEC, not a summary of a summary
Rather than scrape a research site, this tool goes to the source: the SEC's own EDGAR filings, via their public companyfacts API. That API doesn't allow direct browser requests (no CORS support), so this is the one tool on this site with a small server-side step in between — everything else here runs entirely in your browser.
Five numbers, not a spreadsheet
Type a ticker — apple revenue, nvidia cash on hand, microsoft operating income, whatever you're after — and this tool pulls exactly five figures from the company's latest annual report: revenue, net income, cash, operating income, and long-term debt. Each one links straight back to the official SEC filing, so you can go deeper the moment you want to, but you're not required to start there.
