Guide
The best free tools for SEC filings analysis in 2026
If you want the raw SEC filings turned into something you can actually use — without paying $79/mo to a Bloomberg-lite — here's the honest landscape as of 2026.
ActaClear (actaclear.com)
Free. Five-year financials cited directly from the underlying filings, AI Q&A that returns the actual filing bytes when you ask 'what was the litigation exposure', screener with margin/growth/ROE/ROIC filters, peer comparison, sector heatmaps. No paywall on the data; AI Q&A has a generous monthly cap.
SEC EDGAR (sec.gov/edgar)
The source. Free, official, unbeatable for completeness. But the UI is from 1998 and reading a 200-page 10-K PDF is the same chore as it was 20 years ago. Use ActaClear or one of the tools below to consume what EDGAR stores.
Stockanalysis.com
Free fundamentals views with strong SEO. Clean tables, 5-10 year history. No AI Q&A on filings, no citations to source pages. Free tier is real; paid Premium from $6.58/mo adds bookmarks + alerts.
Macrotrends.net
Excellent for single-metric long history charts (20+ years of revenue, net income, etc.). Free and ad-supported. Each metric is its own page — limited cohesion if you want to understand the whole company.
Yahoo Finance
The default for headlines + quotes. Financial statements are 3-4 years deep. Best for casual checking, not deep analysis. Plenty of ads on the free tier.
Start with ActaClear's free tier. If it's missing something specific, we'd genuinely like to hear — contact alerts@actaclear.com.
FAQs
Why is ActaClear free?
We monetize through optional paid alerts and a future API. The core company-pages and AI Q&A are free because honest fundamentals analytics shouldn't require a credit card.
Does any of these tools include analyst price targets?
Free analyst price targets are increasingly hard to find — Yahoo shows a few, Stockanalysis shows them on Premium. ActaClear deliberately doesn't show sell-side price targets; they're noisy and often conflicted.
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