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A screen ends with a list of tickers. What comes next is the longer part of the job: reading the filings and the last few calls, checking the statements, deciding what the business is worth, and writing down why you would own it. Brief Equity is built for that part: one feed for everything you track, a research library with a notebook for every stock, your own valuation models, and 13F ownership, in one workspace.

Finviz describes itself as a stock screener for investors and traders, with financial visualizations. Its menu runs from the screener, maps, charts, news, and groups to insider trading, futures, forex, crypto, a portfolio, and a calendar (as of October 2026).

The difference shows the moment a name is worth a closer look. In Brief Equity it goes onto a watchlist, its filings and calls arrive in the feed, and what you learn goes into a note, beside the model and the ownership picture for the same stock.

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. A transcript reads as a conversation, with each speaker set apart and the Q&A grouped question by question. 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.

Finviz's Portfolio Notes attach a note of up to 2,000 characters to a stock in a portfolio or to a single transaction. Each stock page carries news, analyst ratings, insider trades, and a Filings tab. Its Help Center lists no research notebook, earnings-call transcripts, or knowledge graph (as of October 2026).

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.

Finviz shows valuation ratios such as P/E, PEG, P/S, and EV/EBITDA on each stock page and as screener filters. Its plan table and Help Center list no valuation model builder (as of October 2026).

Brief Equity reads the market too. The Markets overview is one dashboard: a four-index chart from one day to one year, sectors, factors, global markets, yields, currencies, commodities, the day's S&P 500 movers, macro news, and the week ahead. Stock news, macro news, press releases, filings, insider trades, and analyst moves each have a market-wide stream.

That view is wired to your work. The Earnings tab lays out the week's S&P 500 reports day by day, the companies on your watchlists stay marked, and a click opens one in the right rail beside your notes.

Finviz's home page shows a market summary, signal lists such as top gainers and new highs, an S&P 500 heat map, headlines, and calendars. Its Maps page draws the S&P 500, the full market, the world, and ETFs (as of October 2026).

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 owns, with ownership filtered to the tickers on your watchlists. Filings, insider trades, and 13F ownership come from SEC records.

Finviz covers stocks listed on NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX, with pages for futures, forex, and crypto, and its Help Center lists international markets as not covered. Its plan table gives 3 years of financial statements on the free plan and 8 years on Elite (as of October 2026).

Brief Equity is one plan with everything included: a 10-day free trial with no card, then $38/mo billed annually ($48/mo monthly). Finviz has a free plan with ads and one paid plan, Elite, at $39.50 a month or $299.50 a year, which is $24.96 a month billed annually. The Elite trial runs 7 days and needs a credit card. Its plan table sets quote data, years of financial statements, chart tools, alerts, and exports by plan (as of October 2026).