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Brief Equity takes you from watching the market to working on your stocks: a true notebook for every stock, a research library you shape, a graph that connects it all, and your own DCF and EV/EBITDA models.

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The Brief Equity app: every watchlist on one page, with one feed of news, filings, and transcripts for the stocks on them.

What you gain

What changes when your research moves from Koyfin 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.

A stock's notebook page holding a passage saved from an earnings call and a saved table of financials.

A research library you shape

Every notebook sits in a library you build like a database: your own columns, stages, and tags, filtered by any of them, as a table or a board.

The research library: a table of the stocks you research, with your own columns for sector, stage, conviction, target price, and tags.

A graph of your research

Your watchlists, stocks, notes, and the funds you follow, drawn as one connected map that grows as you work. Filter it to one list, or see where a fund's holdings overlap yours.

The Brief Equity knowledge graph linking watchlists, stocks, notes, and funds.

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.

A Brief Equity valuation model with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios and the sliders that set its assumptions.

What you keep

You keep all of this when you move from Koyfin.

  • US and international stocks on 60+ exchanges
  • 20 years of annual statements and 40 quarters
  • Earnings-call transcripts, SEC filings, and news from 16 outlets
  • Watchlists with 182 metrics to add as columns
  • Charts with moving averages, Bollinger bands, and valuation multiples
  • Institutional holders of every stock

Bottom line

Brief Equity is the workspace for the stocks you follow: your notes, your models, your graph, and one feed, on one plan.

Brief Equity vs Koyfin at a glance

FeatureBrief EquityKoyfin
NotesA research library with your own columns and a notebook for every stockNote columns in a watchlist and notes on a position
Research graphA knowledge graph of your watchlists, stocks, notes, and fundsNone among its listed features
Valuation modelsDCF and EV/EBITDA with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios, sensitivity, and Monte CarloValuation ratios, estimates, and custom formulas; no model builder listed
Research feedOne feed across every watchlist: news, transcripts, SEC filings, insider trades, and analyst ratingsWatchlist News: news, filings, and transcripts for a watchlist
Market overviewAn overview dashboard, market-wide streams, and the market-wide earnings week, wired to the tickers you trackDashboards for world indices, US sectors, factors, yields, currencies, and commodities
PlansOne plan, everything included, after a 10-day free trial with no cardFree, Plus, Premium, and advisor plans, with history and news set by plan

Bring your watchlist

Copy the tickers from your Koyfin 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Brief Equity a good Koyfin alternative?
Yes. Brief Equity covers US and international stocks on 60+ exchanges and adds what Koyfin's plan comparison does not list: a research library with a notebook for every stock, DCF and EV/EBITDA models on your own assumptions, 13F ownership fund by fund, and a knowledge graph.
What does Brief Equity do that Koyfin does not?
The research itself: a research library with your own columns and a notebook for every stock, passages and figures saved from the source with a back-link, a knowledge graph, DCF and EV/EBITDA models with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios and a Monte Carlo range, and 13F ownership with fund pages filtered to the tickers you track. Koyfin's plan comparison lists no research notebook, knowledge graph, or valuation model builder (as of October 2026).
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 Koyfin?
Brief Equity is one plan with everything included: a 10-day free trial with no card, then $38/mo billed annually ($48/mo monthly). Koyfin has a Free plan, Plus at $39 and Premium at $79 a month billed annually ($49 and $110 billed monthly), and advisor plans from $209 a month billed annually (as of October 2026).
Can I move my Koyfin watchlist to Brief Equity?
Yes. Copy the tickers and paste them into a new watchlist, up to 50 at a time, separated by commas, spaces, or new lines. You check the matches, then add them all at once.
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From a data terminal to a research workspace

Koyfin is a data terminal: its pages describe market dashboards for world indices, US sectors, factors, yields, currencies, and commodities (as of October 2026). Brief Equity is the workspace for what comes next: the stocks you decide to follow. You track them on watchlists, read one feed for all of them, write your thesis in a notebook for each, build your own models, and follow the funds that hold them.

Brief Equity reads the market too: an overview dashboard, the earnings week for the whole market, and the same news, filing, insider, and analyst streams across every ticker. That view is wired to your work. The earnings week marks the tickers you track, and a click opens one in the right rail beside your notes.

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.

Koyfin's notes are a column in a watchlist and a note on a position, which its help page describes as space for personalized insights or reminders. Its plan comparison lists no research notebook or library (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.

Koyfin's plan comparison lists valuation ratios, estimates, and custom formulas, which apply math operators to its data columns. It lists no valuation model builder (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.

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). Koyfin has a Free plan, Plus at $39 and Premium at $79 a month billed annually ($49 and $110 billed monthly), and advisor plans from $209 a month billed annually. Its plan comparison sets financial history, company news, and saved screens by plan (as of October 2026).

By The Brief Equity Team · Published · Updated

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