Koyfin vs TIKR
Want something better than Koyfin or TIKR? Here it is.
Brief Equity is a workspace for US and international stocks where you do the research and keep it: 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.
What you gain
What changes when your research moves from Koyfin or TIKR 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, a Monte Carlo range, and peer comparables.
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.
What you keep
You keep all of this when you move from Koyfin or TIKR.
- 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 of price, P/E, EV/EBITDA, and other multiples over time
- Institutional holders of every stock
Bottom line
If you are choosing between Koyfin and TIKR, pick Brief Equity: read the call, write the thesis, build the model, and follow the funds in one workspace, on one plan.
Brief Equity vs Koyfin vs TIKR at a glance
| Feature | Brief Equity | Koyfin | TIKR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | A notebook for every stock: a full editor with headings, tables, checklists, and callouts | Note columns in a watchlist and notes on a position | No notes feature among its listed features |
| Research library | A table or a board of the stocks you research, with your own columns, stages, and tags | None among its listed features | None among its listed features |
| Valuation models | DCF and EV/EBITDA with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios, sensitivity, and Monte Carlo | Valuation ratios, estimates, and custom formulas; no model builder listed | A Valuation Model Builder on a P/E multiple |
| Research graph | A knowledge graph of your watchlists, stocks, notes, and funds | None among its listed features | None among its listed features |
| Research feed | One feed across every watchlist: news, transcripts, SEC filings, insider trades, and analyst ratings | Watchlist News: news, filings, and transcripts for a watchlist | A feed for one active watchlist: upcoming events, news, filings, and transcripts |
| Market overview | An overview dashboard, the market-wide earnings week with the tickers you track marked, and news, filing, insider, and analyst streams | Dashboards for world indices, US sectors, factors, yields, currencies, and commodities | A Market Overview page |
| Plans | One plan, everything included, after a 10-day free trial with no card | Free, Plus, Premium, and advisor plans, with history and news set by plan | Four plans, with financial history, analyst estimates, and fund coverage set by plan |
Bring your watchlist
Copy the tickers from your Koyfin or TIKR 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
- Should I pick Brief Equity over Koyfin or TIKR?
- Yes. Brief Equity covers US and international stocks on 60+ exchanges and adds what neither tool's own pages list: a research library with a notebook for every stock, a knowledge graph, and DCF and EV/EBITDA models on your own assumptions (as of October 2026). Passages and figures you find in the source save into your notes with a back-link.
- Is Koyfin or TIKR better for stock research?
- Both are data terminals. Koyfin's pages describe market dashboards for world indices, US sectors, factors, yields, currencies, and commodities. TIKR's pages describe global financial data from S&P Global CapitalIQ, a screener, and a Valuation Model Builder on a P/E multiple (as of October 2026). For research you do and keep, Brief Equity is the one to pick: a notebook for every stock, a research library, a knowledge graph, and your own DCF and EV/EBITDA models.
- Can I build a DCF in Koyfin or TIKR?
- Neither lists a DCF model on its pages. TIKR's Valuation Model Builder values on a P/E multiple: its help page says both the free Guided Model and the paid Advanced Model use a P/E-based method for now, with more methods planned. Koyfin's plan comparison lists valuation ratios, estimates, and custom formulas, and no valuation model builder (as of October 2026). Brief Equity's models are a discounted cash flow and an EV/EBITDA model, with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios, sensitivity analysis, and a Monte Carlo range.
- 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 and TIKR?
- 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. TIKR has four plans: Free, then Plus at $24.95, Pro at $54.95, and Ultimate at $119.95 a month on monthly billing, or $17.95, $37.95, and $79.95 a month billed annually (as of October 2026).
- Can I move my Koyfin or TIKR 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.
Read the full comparison
A research workspace beside two data terminals
Brief Equity is the workspace for 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.
Koyfin and TIKR are both data terminals. Koyfin's pages describe market dashboards for world indices, US sectors, factors, yields, currencies, and commodities. TIKR's pages describe global financial data from S&P Global CapitalIQ, a screener, and a watchlist feed (as of October 2026).
The difference shows the moment you find something worth keeping. In Brief Equity it goes into a note, beside the model and the ownership picture for the same stock.
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 Watchlist News gathers news, filings, and transcripts for a watchlist, and its plan comparison lists no research notebook, library, or knowledge graph (as of October 2026).
TIKR builds its feed for one active watchlist at a time: upcoming events, news, filings, and transcripts. Its plan table and help centre list no notes, research library, 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.
TIKR's Valuation Model Builder has a free Guided Model and a paid Advanced Model. Its help page says both use a P/E-based valuation method for now, with more methods planned (as of October 2026).
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).
The market, wired to what you track
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.
Koyfin has market dashboards for world indices, US sectors, factors, yields, currencies, and commodities. TIKR has a Market Overview page (as of October 2026).
13F ownership
Quarterly 13F filings show who holds a stock and what each fund did last quarter. Open a fund for its portfolio, turnover, 1-year relative performance, and concentration, save the funds you follow into one dashboard, and see ownership filtered to the tickers on your watchlists.
Koyfin shows an Institutional Ownership tab on each stock, beside insider ownership and insider transactions. TIKR's pricing table sets fund coverage by plan (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).
TIKR has four plans: Free, which covers US stocks, then Plus at $24.95, Pro at $54.95, and Ultimate at $119.95 a month on monthly billing, or $17.95, $37.95, and $79.95 a month billed annually. Its pricing table sets financial history, analyst estimates, transcript history, and fund coverage by plan (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.
Explore
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