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Brief Equity puts 13F ownership where the research happens: any fund's portfolio and the holders of any stock, beside a notebook for every stock, your own DCF and EV/EBITDA models, and one feed for the stocks you track.
What you gain
What changes when your research moves from Dataroma to Brief Equity.
A true notebook for every stock
A full editor, not an afterthought: headings, tables, checklists, and callouts, in chapters and pages. Save a passage from an earnings call or a block of financials into it, with a link back to the source.
DCF and EV/EBITDA models
Value a company on your own assumptions: a discounted cash flow and an EV/EBITDA model with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios, a sensitivity table, and a Monte Carlo range.
One feed for the stocks you track
News, press releases, earnings-call transcripts, SEC filings, and analyst ratings for every stock on your watchlists, in one stream with a tab for each source.
A graph of your research
Your watchlists, stocks, notes, and the funds you follow, drawn as one connected map. Focus a fund to see where its holdings overlap yours.
What you keep
You keep all of this when you move from Dataroma.
- The holders of any stock, from quarterly 13F filings
- Any fund's portfolio by quarter, with new stakes and exits
- Each quarter's buys and sells, for your saved funds and watchlists
- A grid of curated superinvestors to start from
- Insider trades, filtered by transaction and owner type
- Charts and financials for every stock, with 20 years of annual statements
Bottom line
Brief Equity turns a fund's position into your own research: the holders, the call, your notes, and your model, on one plan.
Brief Equity vs Dataroma at a glance
| Feature | Brief Equity | Dataroma |
|---|---|---|
| Holders of a stock | Every institution that holds it, and who bought or sold this quarter | The superinvestors on its list that hold it |
| Fund portfolios | Any 13F filer's portfolio by quarter, with turnover and concentration | The 83 superinvestors on its list |
| Your watchlists | Ownership filtered to the stocks you track | No saved lists among its listed features |
| Saved funds | The funds you follow in one dashboard | None among its listed features |
| Notes | A research library and a notebook for every stock | None among its listed features |
| Valuation models | DCF and EV/EBITDA with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios | None among its listed features |
| Research feed | News, transcripts, SEC filings, insider trades, and analyst ratings across every watchlist | Manager commentaries and articles, plus insider transaction pages |
| Research graph | A knowledge graph of your watchlists, stocks, notes, and funds | None among its listed features |
Bring your watchlist
Copy the tickers from your Dataroma watchlist and paste them into a new Brief Equity watchlist, up to 50 at a time, separated by commas, spaces or new lines. You check the matches, then add them all at once.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Brief Equity a good Dataroma alternative?
- Yes. Brief Equity gives you 13F ownership for any institutional filer, the holders of any stock, and ownership filtered to your watchlists. It adds a workspace that Dataroma's own pages do not list: a research library with a notebook for every stock, one feed of news, transcripts, and filings, a knowledge graph, and DCF and EV/EBITDA models on your own assumptions.
- How many investors does Dataroma track?
- 83 superinvestors, by the count on its home page (as of October 2026). Brief Equity has a grid of curated superinvestors too, and beyond it you search any institutional 13F filer and save the funds you want to follow.
- What does Brief Equity add over Dataroma?
- 13F ownership for any filer you search, ownership filtered to your watchlists, saved funds in one dashboard with their quarter-over-quarter activity, and the workspace around the data: a feed of news, filings, and transcripts for every ticker you track, a research library with a notebook for every stock, passages and figures saved from the source with a back-link, a knowledge graph, and your own DCF and EV/EBITDA models. Dataroma's pages list no notes, valuation models, or saved lists (as of October 2026).
- Can I follow a superinvestor's portfolio in Brief Equity?
- Yes. Start from the grid of curated superinvestors or search any institutional 13F filer, then open the fund for its portfolio by quarter: turnover, one-year relative performance, concentration, and its biggest adds and exits. Save the fund and it joins a dashboard with each saved fund's portfolio value, position count, and quarter-over-quarter activity.
- Does Brief Equity cover international stocks?
- Yes. Brief Equity covers US and international stocks on 60+ exchanges: prices, charts, financial statements, dividends, watchlists, notes, and your own valuation models work on every one of them. Filings, insider trades, and 13F ownership come from SEC records.
- How much does Brief Equity cost next to Dataroma?
- Brief Equity is one plan with everything included: a 10-day free trial with no card, then $38/mo billed annually ($48/mo monthly). Dataroma is open to read with no account: its pages show no plans or prices, and its privacy policy names a third-party advertising service (as of October 2026).
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From a superinvestor tracker to a research workspace
Dataroma and Brief Equity both show what funds hold from their quarterly filings. Brief Equity puts that ownership inside the workspace where the research gets done: one feed for everything you track, a research library with a notebook for every stock, a knowledge graph, and your own valuation models. Dataroma is a superinvestor tracker: its help notes say it tracks the portfolios of value oriented superinvestors by extracting data from financial filings, and its home page counts 83 of them (as of October 2026).
The difference shows the moment a fund's position catches your eye. In Brief Equity the next steps are in the same place: open the stock's holders, read the last call, save the passage into a note, and build a model beside it.
13F ownership, both ways
Brief Equity reads ownership in two directions. Open any stock to see every institution that holds it, the largest positions, and who bought or sold this quarter. Search any institutional 13F filer, or start from a grid of curated superinvestors, and open the fund's portfolio by quarter with its turnover, one-year relative performance, concentration, and biggest adds and exits.
Save the funds you follow and they sit in one dashboard with portfolio value, position count, and quarter-over-quarter activity. Ownership is also filtered to your watchlists: one view shows how holders, dollars, and positions moved for each stock you track, and another shows the institutions active across your lists.
Dataroma's pages cover the 83 superinvestors on its list: a holdings page for each with activity, buys, sells, and history tabs, a Grand Portfolio that combines them, an S&P 500 grid sorted by how many of them own each stock, and a stock page that lists the superinvestors holding it. Its search box takes a stock symbol or name (as of October 2026).
The research you keep
Brief Equity's feed carries news, press releases, earnings-call transcripts, SEC filings, insider trades, and analyst ratings for every ticker on your watchlists, with a tab per source. Select a passage in a transcript or press release and it saves into a note as a callout with a back-link to the exact spot. A block of cells from the financials saves as a table, and a chart or a model's valuation card saves as an image.
The notes sit in a research library with your own columns, stages, and tags, and a notebook for every stock. Your columns come in 7 types, any of 182 market metrics can sit beside them, you can filter by any column, and a board lays the stocks out in lanes by a field such as Stage or Conviction. A knowledge graph draws your watchlists, stocks, notes, and the funds you follow as one picture, and focusing a fund shows where its holdings overlap yours.
Dataroma links to manager commentaries and articles and has two insider pages: an insider transaction page with filters for timeframe, purchases or sales, 10% owners, and a minimum amount, and a page of the trades its superinvestors file as insiders. Its pages list no notes, saved lists, or graph (as of October 2026).
Valuation models
Brief Equity's models are a discounted cash flow and an EV/EBITDA model, driven by your own assumptions: Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios, sensitivity analysis, a Monte Carlo distribution over the inputs, peer comparables, an exit-multiple value on EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, or EV/EBIT, and versions you save and restore.
Dataroma's stock page shows a TradingView price chart and fundamentals widget beside the list of superinvestors that hold the stock. Its pages list no valuation model (as of October 2026).
Data and coverage
Brief Equity covers US and international stocks on 60+ exchanges. Every stock page has four tabs: Overview, Charts, Financials, and Dividends. Financials hold the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow, with 20 years of annual statements, 40 quarters, and a trailing-twelve-month column. Charts carry price with volume, moving averages, and Bollinger bands, plus panes for P/E, EV/EBITDA, and other multiples.
Quarterly 13F filings show who holds a stock and what each fund did last quarter. Filings, insider trades, and 13F ownership come from SEC records.
Plans and pricing
Brief Equity is one plan with everything included: a 10-day free trial with no card, then $38/mo billed annually ($48/mo monthly). Dataroma is open to read with no account: its pages show no plans or prices, and its privacy policy says it never asks for an email address and names a third-party advertising service (as of October 2026).
By The Brief Equity Team · Published · Updated
In the product
How Brief Equity does it
Every part of the Brief Equity workspace, each on its own page.
Workspace
Build your research database
Organize your research like a database, with your own columns and a notebook for every stock.
ExploreFilterable feed
One feed for everything you track
Cut the noise: filter by news outlet, filing type, insider trade, and analyst move, across all your stocks.
ExploreModels
Value it yourself
Your own DCF and EV/EBITDA models, built on real data, with your assumptions or the Street's.
ExploreOwnership
Follow the institutional money
See which funds own your stocks and what they bought or sold last quarter, from 13F filings.
ExploreKnowledge graph
See how it all connects
Your lists, stocks, notes, and funds on one screen, and the links between them.
ExploreWatchlists
Track every position in one place
Unlimited lists with your own columns, an earnings calendar, and a full page for every stock.
ExploreMarkets
The whole market on one dashboard
Indices, yields, sectors, and the day's movers, all on one screen.
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