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Want something better than WhaleWisdom? Here it is.

Brief Equity shows who holds a stock and what a fund bought, then gives you the rest of the research: DCF and EV/EBITDA models, one feed, and a notebook for every stock.

What you gain

What changes when your research moves from WhaleWisdom to Brief Equity.

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.

News and earnings calls in one feed

News, press releases, earnings-call transcripts, and analyst ratings for every ticker on your watchlists, beside SEC filings and insider trades, with a tab for each source.

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 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 WhaleWisdom.

  • 13F holders of any stock
  • Any fund's portfolio, with the quarter's buys and exits
  • Ownership filtered to your watchlists
  • Saved funds, with each quarter's activity
  • Watchlists with 182 metrics to add as columns
  • Insider trades and SEC filings for your stocks

Bottom line

Brief Equity is where a 13F idea becomes your own research: read the call, build the model, and write the thesis, on one plan.

Brief Equity vs WhaleWisdom at a glance

FeatureBrief EquityWhaleWisdom
Valuation modelsDCF and EV/EBITDA with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios, sensitivity, and Monte CarloNone among its listed features; its Backtester tests 13F portfolios
Research feedOne feed across every watchlist: news, transcripts, SEC filings, insider trades, and analyst ratingsEmail alerts on new SEC filings, an events calendar, and its own blog
NotesA research library with your own columns and a notebook for every stockNone among its listed features
Research graphA knowledge graph of your watchlists, stocks, notes, and fundsNone among its listed features
13F ownershipHolders of any stock, and a fund X-ray of turnover, performance, and concentrationFund holdings and stock ownership from 13F filings
WatchlistsUnlimited watchlists, with ownership filtered to their tickersWatchlists with 13F holders, up to 5, 10, or 50 stocks each by plan
PlansOne plan, everything included, after a 10-day free trial with no cardFree, Standard, Pro, and Enterprise, with 13F history and exports set by plan

Bring your watchlist

Copy the tickers from your WhaleWisdom 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 WhaleWisdom alternative?
Yes. Brief Equity shows who holds any stock and X-rays any fund's 13F portfolio, with ownership filtered to your watchlists. It adds a workspace that WhaleWisdom's own pages do not list: DCF and EV/EBITDA models on your own assumptions, one feed of news, press releases, and earnings-call transcripts, a research library with a notebook for every stock, and a knowledge graph.
Does Brief Equity have 13F ownership data?
Yes. Quarterly 13F filings show every institution that holds a stock, the largest positions, and who bought or sold this quarter. Open any fund for its portfolio, turnover, one-year relative performance, and concentration. Save the funds you follow into one dashboard, and see ownership filtered to the tickers on your watchlists.
What does Brief Equity add over WhaleWisdom?
The research around the filing: DCF and EV/EBITDA models with Bear, Base, and Bull scenarios and a Monte Carlo range, a feed of news, press releases, earnings-call transcripts, and analyst ratings 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, and a knowledge graph. WhaleWisdom's pages list no notes, earnings-call transcripts, or company valuation models, and no news beyond its own blog (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 WhaleWisdom?
Brief Equity is one plan with everything included: a 10-day free trial with no card, then $38/mo billed annually ($48/mo monthly). WhaleWisdom has four plans: Free, Standard at $90 a quarter or $300 a year, Pro at $150 a quarter or $500 a year, and Enterprise on request, with 13F history, fund group size, stocks per watchlist, and exports set by plan (as of October 2026).
Can I move my WhaleWisdom 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

From a 13F database to a research workspace

WhaleWisdom and Brief Equity both read the quarterly 13F filings that large managers send to the SEC. Brief Equity puts that ownership data inside a workspace for the whole job: one feed for everything you track, a research library with a notebook for every stock, your own valuation models, and a knowledge graph. WhaleWisdom is a 13F site: its pages describe fund holdings, stock ownership, a Backtester, a 13F stock screener, a heat map, an Excel add-in, and an API (as of October 2026).

The difference shows the moment a filing gives you an idea. In Brief Equity the next steps are in the same place: open the company, read its last earnings call, value it on your own assumptions, and write down what you think.

13F ownership, wired to your watchlists

Ownership in Brief Equity reads both ways. Open any stock to see every institution that holds it, the largest positions, and who bought or sold this quarter. Open any fund to X-ray its portfolio: turnover, one-year relative performance, concentration, and its biggest adds and exits. Start from a search for any fund or company, or from a grid of curated superinvestors.

Brief Equity already knows what you follow, so it filters 13F ownership to the tickers across your watchlists. The Tickers view shows how holders, dollars, and positions moved for each stock you track. The Funds view shows the institutions active across your lists. Save the funds you want to watch and they sit in one dashboard, with portfolio value, position count, and quarter-over-quarter activity for each one.

WhaleWisdom's pages list current and historical fund holdings and stock ownership, fund groups, stock watchlists whose size is set by plan, and email alerts on new SEC filings (as of October 2026).

The research around the filing

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 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, and you can focus a fund to see where its holdings overlap yours.

WhaleWisdom's pages list email alerts on new SEC filings, a stock earnings and events calendar, and its own blog. They list no notes, research library, or earnings-call transcripts, and no news beyond that blog (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.

WhaleWisdom's Backtester answers a different question: how a portfolio built from the 13F filings of one manager, or a group of managers, would have performed. Its pages list no company valuation models (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). WhaleWisdom has four plans: Free, Standard at $90 a quarter or $300 a year, Pro at $150 a quarter or $500 a year, and Enterprise on request. Its pricing page sets 13F history, fund group size, stocks per watchlist, and exports by plan (as of October 2026).

By The Brief Equity Team · Published · Updated

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