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StockPup.com Makes Fundamental Financial Data Available for Free Download

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) October 21, 2010

StockPup.com, a web site for long-term value investors, today announced that it has made its fundamental financial dataset available for free download. Available in the Microsoft Excel format, the dataset aggregates information from quarterly financial statements covering 15 years of financial history from document and XBRL filings by public companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, StockPup.com and Factual, Inc., http://www.factual.com, announced their collaboration to make this data available to developers of financial web applications using Factual’s JavaScript API.

“Most individual investors, who are interested in the long-term value approach popularized by Warren Buffett, have not had convenient access to the financial data necessary to make informed value investing decisions,” says Serge Bert, founder of StockPup.com. “Now they can get such data with ease, and can either download it in Excel, access it as charts on our site, or build their own online charts and views via the Factual API.”

The current dataset covers companies in the S&P 100, and will be expanded to the S&P 500® in the future, adding further balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow data fields. Users can add, audit, and correct data via the Factual web site, and also access it programmatically via the Factual JavaScript API. The data can be used for decision making tools that are popular among value investors, such as calculations of returns on equity and assets, trends in long-term shareholder wealth, or measures of financial leverage.

Useful links:

StockPup web site: http://www.StockPup.com

Financial data on Factual: http://www.factual.com/topics/show?topic=Finance

Factual JavaScript API: http://www.factual.com/devtools/webApps

About StockPup.com

StockPup.com provides tools of fundamental stock analysis to individual investors who follow the long-term investing philosophies of Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham, and David Dodd. By making it easy to access tools previously available only to professional analysts, StockPup seeks to empower individual investors to make informed investment decisions based on objective financial data.

Press contact:

Serge Bert

(650) 549-4219

sergebert(at)stockpup(dot)com

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StockPup.com Makes Tools of Fundamental Stock Analysis Accessible to Long-Term Investors

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) September 21, 2010

StockPup.com, a web site for long-term stock investors, today announced that it has opened a preview beta version to the public. StockPup provides fundamental stock analysis tools to individual investors who follow the long-term investing philosophies of Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham, and David Dodd. By making it easy to access tools previously available only to professional analysts, StockPup seeks to empower individual investors to make informed investment decisions based on objective financial data.

“While millions of investors are interested in Buffett-style long-term investing, most individuals do not have the tools and data to analyze stocks in the same way,” says Serge Bert, founder of StockPup.com. “Our web site takes care of collecting and analyzing financial data, so that investors can gain deeper understanding of stocks they invest in.”

StockPup collects balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow data covering up to 20 years of financial history from documents and XBRL data filed by public companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The site uses this information to provide decision making tools that are popular among long-term investors: calculations of returns on equity and assets, trends in long-term shareholder wealth, measures of balance sheet risk, etc. Armed with these analytical tools, investors can avoid market speculation, and instead focus on identifying low-priced stocks of companies with favorable business fundamentals.

The long-term value investing approach was first formulated by Graham and Dodd in their classic texts “The Intelligent Investor” and “Security Analysis.” Although this approach to investing had originated in lessons learned during the Great Depression, its followers, including Warren Buffett, have generated superior returns during periods of both economic prosperity and recession, consistently outperforming the market.

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